musing about fuel savings
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Re: musing about fuel savings
This '66 Charger 426":
http://members.aol.com/franangrenteria/frank55.jpg doesn't, as I've been
inside it, nor do these sixteen thousand dollar crate motors:
http://www.wyckoff-mopar-parts.com/528hemcratmo.html
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Bret Ludwig wrote:
>
> All the early 426 castings did, I can remember seeing a set in an auto
> machine shop in '79 or so and asking. All the fuelers had two plugs and
> some apparently had three. But NASCAR engines did too.
>
> Road race Aston Martins and Maseratis did too. The street versions
> didn't, but the wealthy Europeans would promptly have them retrofitted.
> The port in the head was there, sometimes with a dummy plug and
> sometimes just undrilled and tapped. The hot setup was one mag and one
> distributor, for easy starting and excellent top end. But getting them
> synched was a bugger.
>
> Now electronic ignitions put out way more zap than a mag at ANY speed.
> Magnetos are for museum pieces like vintage racers and Lycomings.
http://members.aol.com/franangrenteria/frank55.jpg doesn't, as I've been
inside it, nor do these sixteen thousand dollar crate motors:
http://www.wyckoff-mopar-parts.com/528hemcratmo.html
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Bret Ludwig wrote:
>
> All the early 426 castings did, I can remember seeing a set in an auto
> machine shop in '79 or so and asking. All the fuelers had two plugs and
> some apparently had three. But NASCAR engines did too.
>
> Road race Aston Martins and Maseratis did too. The street versions
> didn't, but the wealthy Europeans would promptly have them retrofitted.
> The port in the head was there, sometimes with a dummy plug and
> sometimes just undrilled and tapped. The hot setup was one mag and one
> distributor, for easy starting and excellent top end. But getting them
> synched was a bugger.
>
> Now electronic ignitions put out way more zap than a mag at ANY speed.
> Magnetos are for museum pieces like vintage racers and Lycomings.
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Re: musing about fuel savings
This '66 Charger 426":
http://members.aol.com/franangrenteria/frank55.jpg doesn't, as I've been
inside it, nor do these sixteen thousand dollar crate motors:
http://www.wyckoff-mopar-parts.com/528hemcratmo.html
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Bret Ludwig wrote:
>
> All the early 426 castings did, I can remember seeing a set in an auto
> machine shop in '79 or so and asking. All the fuelers had two plugs and
> some apparently had three. But NASCAR engines did too.
>
> Road race Aston Martins and Maseratis did too. The street versions
> didn't, but the wealthy Europeans would promptly have them retrofitted.
> The port in the head was there, sometimes with a dummy plug and
> sometimes just undrilled and tapped. The hot setup was one mag and one
> distributor, for easy starting and excellent top end. But getting them
> synched was a bugger.
>
> Now electronic ignitions put out way more zap than a mag at ANY speed.
> Magnetos are for museum pieces like vintage racers and Lycomings.
http://members.aol.com/franangrenteria/frank55.jpg doesn't, as I've been
inside it, nor do these sixteen thousand dollar crate motors:
http://www.wyckoff-mopar-parts.com/528hemcratmo.html
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Bret Ludwig wrote:
>
> All the early 426 castings did, I can remember seeing a set in an auto
> machine shop in '79 or so and asking. All the fuelers had two plugs and
> some apparently had three. But NASCAR engines did too.
>
> Road race Aston Martins and Maseratis did too. The street versions
> didn't, but the wealthy Europeans would promptly have them retrofitted.
> The port in the head was there, sometimes with a dummy plug and
> sometimes just undrilled and tapped. The hot setup was one mag and one
> distributor, for easy starting and excellent top end. But getting them
> synched was a bugger.
>
> Now electronic ignitions put out way more zap than a mag at ANY speed.
> Magnetos are for museum pieces like vintage racers and Lycomings.
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Re: musing about fuel savings
This '66 Charger 426":
http://members.aol.com/franangrenteria/frank55.jpg doesn't, as I've been
inside it, nor do these sixteen thousand dollar crate motors:
http://www.wyckoff-mopar-parts.com/528hemcratmo.html
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Bret Ludwig wrote:
>
> All the early 426 castings did, I can remember seeing a set in an auto
> machine shop in '79 or so and asking. All the fuelers had two plugs and
> some apparently had three. But NASCAR engines did too.
>
> Road race Aston Martins and Maseratis did too. The street versions
> didn't, but the wealthy Europeans would promptly have them retrofitted.
> The port in the head was there, sometimes with a dummy plug and
> sometimes just undrilled and tapped. The hot setup was one mag and one
> distributor, for easy starting and excellent top end. But getting them
> synched was a bugger.
>
> Now electronic ignitions put out way more zap than a mag at ANY speed.
> Magnetos are for museum pieces like vintage racers and Lycomings.
http://members.aol.com/franangrenteria/frank55.jpg doesn't, as I've been
inside it, nor do these sixteen thousand dollar crate motors:
http://www.wyckoff-mopar-parts.com/528hemcratmo.html
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Bret Ludwig wrote:
>
> All the early 426 castings did, I can remember seeing a set in an auto
> machine shop in '79 or so and asking. All the fuelers had two plugs and
> some apparently had three. But NASCAR engines did too.
>
> Road race Aston Martins and Maseratis did too. The street versions
> didn't, but the wealthy Europeans would promptly have them retrofitted.
> The port in the head was there, sometimes with a dummy plug and
> sometimes just undrilled and tapped. The hot setup was one mag and one
> distributor, for easy starting and excellent top end. But getting them
> synched was a bugger.
>
> Now electronic ignitions put out way more zap than a mag at ANY speed.
> Magnetos are for museum pieces like vintage racers and Lycomings.
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Re: musing about fuel savings
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:00:47 UTC "Bret Ludwig" <bretldwig@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> L.W. ------ III (ßill) wrote:
> > The regulator must charge the generator's field, just like the
> > alternator's stator. Painless Wiring's diagram just jumps the battery
> > wire to the ignition wire the other works the idiot light on this newer
> > alternator with internal regulator:
> > http://www.----------.com/LateAlternator.jpg
>
> A generator will self-excite when it is spun fast enough due to
> residual magnetism. Such as a car or truck being vigorously push
> started or an aircraft engine unfeathered in flight. The aircraft
> engine will light anyway because it has mags, but if all the other
> electrics are dead the alternator won't come back on. The generator
> will. The car with generator will put out enough juice to make the
> ignition work, sometimes.
>
> That's why WWII saboteurs used a car generator as a dynamite blasting
> box. You hook up the wires and wrap a rope around the pulley like on an
> outboard, and give it a good yank. No battery, and if captured a car
> generator was a lot easier to explain than the old Wile E. Coyote Du
> Pont box.
Most alternators will also self-excite IF you pull all the load off it
until it reaches breakover voltage. The soft iron rotor retains a
small amount of residual magnetism. Not completely reliable or
repeatable, but most I played with would come up if I used a voltage
threshold on the regulator and isolated the load side. Not as
reliable at it as a genrator, but I've never thrown a commutator
segment in an alternator, either.
--
Will Honea
wrote:
>
> L.W. ------ III (ßill) wrote:
> > The regulator must charge the generator's field, just like the
> > alternator's stator. Painless Wiring's diagram just jumps the battery
> > wire to the ignition wire the other works the idiot light on this newer
> > alternator with internal regulator:
> > http://www.----------.com/LateAlternator.jpg
>
> A generator will self-excite when it is spun fast enough due to
> residual magnetism. Such as a car or truck being vigorously push
> started or an aircraft engine unfeathered in flight. The aircraft
> engine will light anyway because it has mags, but if all the other
> electrics are dead the alternator won't come back on. The generator
> will. The car with generator will put out enough juice to make the
> ignition work, sometimes.
>
> That's why WWII saboteurs used a car generator as a dynamite blasting
> box. You hook up the wires and wrap a rope around the pulley like on an
> outboard, and give it a good yank. No battery, and if captured a car
> generator was a lot easier to explain than the old Wile E. Coyote Du
> Pont box.
Most alternators will also self-excite IF you pull all the load off it
until it reaches breakover voltage. The soft iron rotor retains a
small amount of residual magnetism. Not completely reliable or
repeatable, but most I played with would come up if I used a voltage
threshold on the regulator and isolated the load side. Not as
reliable at it as a genrator, but I've never thrown a commutator
segment in an alternator, either.
--
Will Honea
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Re: musing about fuel savings
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:00:47 UTC "Bret Ludwig" <bretldwig@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> L.W. ------ III (ßill) wrote:
> > The regulator must charge the generator's field, just like the
> > alternator's stator. Painless Wiring's diagram just jumps the battery
> > wire to the ignition wire the other works the idiot light on this newer
> > alternator with internal regulator:
> > http://www.----------.com/LateAlternator.jpg
>
> A generator will self-excite when it is spun fast enough due to
> residual magnetism. Such as a car or truck being vigorously push
> started or an aircraft engine unfeathered in flight. The aircraft
> engine will light anyway because it has mags, but if all the other
> electrics are dead the alternator won't come back on. The generator
> will. The car with generator will put out enough juice to make the
> ignition work, sometimes.
>
> That's why WWII saboteurs used a car generator as a dynamite blasting
> box. You hook up the wires and wrap a rope around the pulley like on an
> outboard, and give it a good yank. No battery, and if captured a car
> generator was a lot easier to explain than the old Wile E. Coyote Du
> Pont box.
Most alternators will also self-excite IF you pull all the load off it
until it reaches breakover voltage. The soft iron rotor retains a
small amount of residual magnetism. Not completely reliable or
repeatable, but most I played with would come up if I used a voltage
threshold on the regulator and isolated the load side. Not as
reliable at it as a genrator, but I've never thrown a commutator
segment in an alternator, either.
--
Will Honea
wrote:
>
> L.W. ------ III (ßill) wrote:
> > The regulator must charge the generator's field, just like the
> > alternator's stator. Painless Wiring's diagram just jumps the battery
> > wire to the ignition wire the other works the idiot light on this newer
> > alternator with internal regulator:
> > http://www.----------.com/LateAlternator.jpg
>
> A generator will self-excite when it is spun fast enough due to
> residual magnetism. Such as a car or truck being vigorously push
> started or an aircraft engine unfeathered in flight. The aircraft
> engine will light anyway because it has mags, but if all the other
> electrics are dead the alternator won't come back on. The generator
> will. The car with generator will put out enough juice to make the
> ignition work, sometimes.
>
> That's why WWII saboteurs used a car generator as a dynamite blasting
> box. You hook up the wires and wrap a rope around the pulley like on an
> outboard, and give it a good yank. No battery, and if captured a car
> generator was a lot easier to explain than the old Wile E. Coyote Du
> Pont box.
Most alternators will also self-excite IF you pull all the load off it
until it reaches breakover voltage. The soft iron rotor retains a
small amount of residual magnetism. Not completely reliable or
repeatable, but most I played with would come up if I used a voltage
threshold on the regulator and isolated the load side. Not as
reliable at it as a genrator, but I've never thrown a commutator
segment in an alternator, either.
--
Will Honea
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Re: musing about fuel savings
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:00:47 UTC "Bret Ludwig" <bretldwig@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> L.W. ------ III (ßill) wrote:
> > The regulator must charge the generator's field, just like the
> > alternator's stator. Painless Wiring's diagram just jumps the battery
> > wire to the ignition wire the other works the idiot light on this newer
> > alternator with internal regulator:
> > http://www.----------.com/LateAlternator.jpg
>
> A generator will self-excite when it is spun fast enough due to
> residual magnetism. Such as a car or truck being vigorously push
> started or an aircraft engine unfeathered in flight. The aircraft
> engine will light anyway because it has mags, but if all the other
> electrics are dead the alternator won't come back on. The generator
> will. The car with generator will put out enough juice to make the
> ignition work, sometimes.
>
> That's why WWII saboteurs used a car generator as a dynamite blasting
> box. You hook up the wires and wrap a rope around the pulley like on an
> outboard, and give it a good yank. No battery, and if captured a car
> generator was a lot easier to explain than the old Wile E. Coyote Du
> Pont box.
Most alternators will also self-excite IF you pull all the load off it
until it reaches breakover voltage. The soft iron rotor retains a
small amount of residual magnetism. Not completely reliable or
repeatable, but most I played with would come up if I used a voltage
threshold on the regulator and isolated the load side. Not as
reliable at it as a genrator, but I've never thrown a commutator
segment in an alternator, either.
--
Will Honea
wrote:
>
> L.W. ------ III (ßill) wrote:
> > The regulator must charge the generator's field, just like the
> > alternator's stator. Painless Wiring's diagram just jumps the battery
> > wire to the ignition wire the other works the idiot light on this newer
> > alternator with internal regulator:
> > http://www.----------.com/LateAlternator.jpg
>
> A generator will self-excite when it is spun fast enough due to
> residual magnetism. Such as a car or truck being vigorously push
> started or an aircraft engine unfeathered in flight. The aircraft
> engine will light anyway because it has mags, but if all the other
> electrics are dead the alternator won't come back on. The generator
> will. The car with generator will put out enough juice to make the
> ignition work, sometimes.
>
> That's why WWII saboteurs used a car generator as a dynamite blasting
> box. You hook up the wires and wrap a rope around the pulley like on an
> outboard, and give it a good yank. No battery, and if captured a car
> generator was a lot easier to explain than the old Wile E. Coyote Du
> Pont box.
Most alternators will also self-excite IF you pull all the load off it
until it reaches breakover voltage. The soft iron rotor retains a
small amount of residual magnetism. Not completely reliable or
repeatable, but most I played with would come up if I used a voltage
threshold on the regulator and isolated the load side. Not as
reliable at it as a genrator, but I've never thrown a commutator
segment in an alternator, either.
--
Will Honea
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Re: Off Topic Re: musing about fuel savings
The first (and one of the very few) brand new cars I bought was a 1956
Ford Club Coupe. Radio, heater, hub caps ("wheel covers") were all
extra cost options. With rubber floor mats, six cylinder engine,
3-spd manual tranny I think it cost me $1585 with tax.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:44:13 UTC ---- <LeadWinger> wrote:
> I can remember clearly when my dad bought a new. 1941 Chevrolet
> Special Deluxe sedan just shortly before WWII. It came with beauty
> rings on the wheels, and backup lamps. The lamps operated with a
> switch under the dash. Easy to forget it was on. There was no radio,
> no heater, no nothing else, but we thought it was "fully equipped."
> My folks kept it until 1950 when we bought another "fully equipped"
> Chevrolet with no heater, no radio, etc. We really are spoiled now.
>
> ----
>
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:59:53 -0700, L.W.(ßill) ------ III
> <----------@***.net> wrote:
>
> > Heater?
> > God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> >mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> >Billy Ray wrote:
> >>
> >> I could have been worse. When my oldest was a baby I had a car with no
> >> heater. We used to wrap her up like a little Eskimo baby.
> >>
> >> --
> >> .
> >> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> >> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> >> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
>
--
Will Honea
Ford Club Coupe. Radio, heater, hub caps ("wheel covers") were all
extra cost options. With rubber floor mats, six cylinder engine,
3-spd manual tranny I think it cost me $1585 with tax.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:44:13 UTC ---- <LeadWinger> wrote:
> I can remember clearly when my dad bought a new. 1941 Chevrolet
> Special Deluxe sedan just shortly before WWII. It came with beauty
> rings on the wheels, and backup lamps. The lamps operated with a
> switch under the dash. Easy to forget it was on. There was no radio,
> no heater, no nothing else, but we thought it was "fully equipped."
> My folks kept it until 1950 when we bought another "fully equipped"
> Chevrolet with no heater, no radio, etc. We really are spoiled now.
>
> ----
>
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:59:53 -0700, L.W.(ßill) ------ III
> <----------@***.net> wrote:
>
> > Heater?
> > God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> >mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> >Billy Ray wrote:
> >>
> >> I could have been worse. When my oldest was a baby I had a car with no
> >> heater. We used to wrap her up like a little Eskimo baby.
> >>
> >> --
> >> .
> >> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> >> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> >> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
>
--
Will Honea
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Re: Off Topic Re: musing about fuel savings
The first (and one of the very few) brand new cars I bought was a 1956
Ford Club Coupe. Radio, heater, hub caps ("wheel covers") were all
extra cost options. With rubber floor mats, six cylinder engine,
3-spd manual tranny I think it cost me $1585 with tax.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:44:13 UTC ---- <LeadWinger> wrote:
> I can remember clearly when my dad bought a new. 1941 Chevrolet
> Special Deluxe sedan just shortly before WWII. It came with beauty
> rings on the wheels, and backup lamps. The lamps operated with a
> switch under the dash. Easy to forget it was on. There was no radio,
> no heater, no nothing else, but we thought it was "fully equipped."
> My folks kept it until 1950 when we bought another "fully equipped"
> Chevrolet with no heater, no radio, etc. We really are spoiled now.
>
> ----
>
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:59:53 -0700, L.W.(ßill) ------ III
> <----------@***.net> wrote:
>
> > Heater?
> > God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> >mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> >Billy Ray wrote:
> >>
> >> I could have been worse. When my oldest was a baby I had a car with no
> >> heater. We used to wrap her up like a little Eskimo baby.
> >>
> >> --
> >> .
> >> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> >> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> >> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
>
--
Will Honea
Ford Club Coupe. Radio, heater, hub caps ("wheel covers") were all
extra cost options. With rubber floor mats, six cylinder engine,
3-spd manual tranny I think it cost me $1585 with tax.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:44:13 UTC ---- <LeadWinger> wrote:
> I can remember clearly when my dad bought a new. 1941 Chevrolet
> Special Deluxe sedan just shortly before WWII. It came with beauty
> rings on the wheels, and backup lamps. The lamps operated with a
> switch under the dash. Easy to forget it was on. There was no radio,
> no heater, no nothing else, but we thought it was "fully equipped."
> My folks kept it until 1950 when we bought another "fully equipped"
> Chevrolet with no heater, no radio, etc. We really are spoiled now.
>
> ----
>
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:59:53 -0700, L.W.(ßill) ------ III
> <----------@***.net> wrote:
>
> > Heater?
> > God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> >mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> >Billy Ray wrote:
> >>
> >> I could have been worse. When my oldest was a baby I had a car with no
> >> heater. We used to wrap her up like a little Eskimo baby.
> >>
> >> --
> >> .
> >> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> >> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> >> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
>
--
Will Honea
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Re: Off Topic Re: musing about fuel savings
The first (and one of the very few) brand new cars I bought was a 1956
Ford Club Coupe. Radio, heater, hub caps ("wheel covers") were all
extra cost options. With rubber floor mats, six cylinder engine,
3-spd manual tranny I think it cost me $1585 with tax.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:44:13 UTC ---- <LeadWinger> wrote:
> I can remember clearly when my dad bought a new. 1941 Chevrolet
> Special Deluxe sedan just shortly before WWII. It came with beauty
> rings on the wheels, and backup lamps. The lamps operated with a
> switch under the dash. Easy to forget it was on. There was no radio,
> no heater, no nothing else, but we thought it was "fully equipped."
> My folks kept it until 1950 when we bought another "fully equipped"
> Chevrolet with no heater, no radio, etc. We really are spoiled now.
>
> ----
>
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:59:53 -0700, L.W.(ßill) ------ III
> <----------@***.net> wrote:
>
> > Heater?
> > God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> >mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> >Billy Ray wrote:
> >>
> >> I could have been worse. When my oldest was a baby I had a car with no
> >> heater. We used to wrap her up like a little Eskimo baby.
> >>
> >> --
> >> .
> >> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> >> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> >> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
>
--
Will Honea
Ford Club Coupe. Radio, heater, hub caps ("wheel covers") were all
extra cost options. With rubber floor mats, six cylinder engine,
3-spd manual tranny I think it cost me $1585 with tax.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:44:13 UTC ---- <LeadWinger> wrote:
> I can remember clearly when my dad bought a new. 1941 Chevrolet
> Special Deluxe sedan just shortly before WWII. It came with beauty
> rings on the wheels, and backup lamps. The lamps operated with a
> switch under the dash. Easy to forget it was on. There was no radio,
> no heater, no nothing else, but we thought it was "fully equipped."
> My folks kept it until 1950 when we bought another "fully equipped"
> Chevrolet with no heater, no radio, etc. We really are spoiled now.
>
> ----
>
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:59:53 -0700, L.W.(ßill) ------ III
> <----------@***.net> wrote:
>
> > Heater?
> > God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> >mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> >Billy Ray wrote:
> >>
> >> I could have been worse. When my oldest was a baby I had a car with no
> >> heater. We used to wrap her up like a little Eskimo baby.
> >>
> >> --
> >> .
> >> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> >> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> >> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
>
--
Will Honea
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Re: musing about fuel savings
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:38:12 UTC "Bret Ludwig" <bretldwig@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> ßill L. W. ------ III wrote:
> > Keith Black hard block Hemis use two spark plugs:
> > http://www.----------.com/temp/ScottKalitta.jpg Which costs between
> > fifty and a quarter of a million dollars. But not no other Chrysler Hemi
> > chamber ever had an extra plugged hole:
> > http://www.----------.com/temp/hemiChamber.jpg
>
> All the early 426 castings did, I can remember seeing a set in an auto
> machine shop in '79 or so and asking. All the fuelers had two plugs and
> some apparently had three. But NASCAR engines did too.
>
> Road race Aston Martins and Maseratis did too. The street versions
> didn't, but the wealthy Europeans would promptly have them retrofitted.
> The port in the head was there, sometimes with a dummy plug and
> sometimes just undrilled and tapped. The hot setup was one mag and one
> distributor, for easy starting and excellent top end. But getting them
> synched was a bugger.
>
> Now electronic ignitions put out way more zap than a mag at ANY speed.
> Magnetos are for museum pieces like vintage racers and Lycomings.
You obviously are not a pilot. Twin mags are real comforting when the
closest thing to level ground anywhere within gliding distance is
either a lake surface or strewn with 6 foot boulders. Just like
cylinder head temp. We could get much better mileage and power if we
could manually lean the mixture - but who wants to drive constant RPM
and futz with it? Besides, even half the pilots can't get it right.
--
Will Honea
wrote:
>
> ßill L. W. ------ III wrote:
> > Keith Black hard block Hemis use two spark plugs:
> > http://www.----------.com/temp/ScottKalitta.jpg Which costs between
> > fifty and a quarter of a million dollars. But not no other Chrysler Hemi
> > chamber ever had an extra plugged hole:
> > http://www.----------.com/temp/hemiChamber.jpg
>
> All the early 426 castings did, I can remember seeing a set in an auto
> machine shop in '79 or so and asking. All the fuelers had two plugs and
> some apparently had three. But NASCAR engines did too.
>
> Road race Aston Martins and Maseratis did too. The street versions
> didn't, but the wealthy Europeans would promptly have them retrofitted.
> The port in the head was there, sometimes with a dummy plug and
> sometimes just undrilled and tapped. The hot setup was one mag and one
> distributor, for easy starting and excellent top end. But getting them
> synched was a bugger.
>
> Now electronic ignitions put out way more zap than a mag at ANY speed.
> Magnetos are for museum pieces like vintage racers and Lycomings.
You obviously are not a pilot. Twin mags are real comforting when the
closest thing to level ground anywhere within gliding distance is
either a lake surface or strewn with 6 foot boulders. Just like
cylinder head temp. We could get much better mileage and power if we
could manually lean the mixture - but who wants to drive constant RPM
and futz with it? Besides, even half the pilots can't get it right.
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Will Honea