DIY_EFI Digest Monday, 30 September 1996 Volume 01 : Number 292 In this issue: Flame On! DFI ECU Re: DFI ECU Bob Harris? Re: Combustion chamber heat See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the DIY_EFI or DIY_EFI-Digest mailing lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Darrell Norquay Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Flame On! At 09:59 PM 9/28/96 -0700, Talltom wrote a few line reply with 10 attached messages that have absolutely nothing to do with the reply... Already read em', trashed 'em, don't wanna read 'em all 15 times over searching for the meat of the message 'cause everybody is too lazy to delete all the irrelevant crap from their replies. This is just a very small flame, don't take it personal, long Tom, you were just the last guilty party, but by far not the only one. Seems that the people who get the digest version of the list are the worst, cause they receive this stuff all in one lump, they think it's ok to send it all back again in one lump. Then the next guy adds his 2 bits worth, and does it again, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Think of all that pristine, virgin bandwidth that could be carrying something useful, going to waste sending the same dull sh#t over and over again... Not to mention that some poor slob's hard disk somewhere has 367 copies of the same message in various incarnations stored on it for future reference. That's why Billy G. invented editors, so's you can delete all the irrelevant crap. Puhleeze! don't reply to this and waste more bandwidth, just keep it in mind next time you do reply, and show *some* awareness of netiquette... Flame Off! regards dn dnorquay@xxx.com ------------------------------ From: peter paul fenske Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:03:00 -0700 Subject: DFI ECU Hi All A friend of mine is looking for a DFI or ACCEL ecu for his blown 671 351 W. If anyone has a used unit for sale let me know. Does anyone know how to get a hold of DFI. Thanx all: peter ------------------------------ From: Lance Ward Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 19:12:25 -0400 Subject: Re: DFI ECU At 02:03 PM 9/29/96 -0700, you wrote: >Hi All > >A friend of mine is looking for a DFI or ACCEL ecu for his >blown 671 351 W. If anyone has a used unit for sale let me know. > >Does anyone know how to get a hold of DFI. > >Thanx all: peter > I'm a systems engineer there. Can I help? Regards, Lance ======================================================== Lance Ward (lance@xxx.com) (JustaV6 @ IRC) www.sojourn.com/~lance ======================================================== ------------------------------ From: talltom Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 21:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Bob Harris? Bob Harris - you out there? Don't have your address and I've got something I think you might like to see. "a society that will trade a little freedom for a little order deserves neither" Thomas Jefferson Clinton doesn't want anything Hitler didn't have. What do you get with Bob Dole, Bill Clinton, and Dolly Parton in the same room? Two boobs and a country singer! Harry Browne for president 96! Talltom ------------------------------ From: "Robert Harris" Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 09:59:49 -0700 Subject: Re: Combustion chamber heat Just a random thought. Spark Ignitions have been around since the turn of the century, and unlike any other part of the engine, have remained essentially unchanged - simply refined. We still start the fire with an itty bitty flame and wait until it slowly spreads thru the chamber. Has anyone given any serious thought to using industrial strength gas lasers or similar technology? Picture instead of a small flame starting at the plug and radiating outward, a shaped beam of energy fanning thru the chamber - igniting virtually all the fuel almost instantly thru out the chamber. Potential benefits - almost total combustion, more power, very little power robbing spark advance needed, etc. I picture something like a quartz window screwed in where the plug now goes, a large, flexible fiber optic light pipe going from the plug to the laser and a high speed high power laser for each cylinder being fired by control electronics. I'd pick its light frequency to be harmonically related to either the hydrogen or carbon atoms resonance to get maximum energy transfer. What would be nicer would be to steal some star wars weapons stuff. Don't matter what the source or type of energy beam - heck I'd even use a phasor beam (if it was remotely connected to reality) - just as long as I could fire the whole chamber almost simultaneously. I know its possible, what I am hoping is that out there some where, some lab guy has hidden away knowledge of industrial strength lasers that might be adapted to an experiment and is willing to share it with the rest of us. Won't see anything like this in production for years - cost you know. If it costs $1.00 more and you make a million cars, thats almost enuff saved to pay for a party for the president if you don't do it. Probably won't see it in the U.S.A. Anything powerful enuff to light the fire will be labeled as a munition by the CIA or banned as a terrorist weapon not usable for hunting or sporting purposes by our president. Now I realize that the preceding idea was not discussed in the fourth edition of the holy grail by some long dead European dude before the onset of senility and probably has not hitten popular hot rodding or thermodynamics 101, but, I've got new asbestos panty liners so I thought I'd ask. Besides, if the technology is ready, and I can steal it, I really don't care what the world thinks - ----- Cut here - personal comment follows ----- Q: What's the difference between Jane Fonda and Bill Clinton? A: She had the balls to go to Viet Nam Robert Harris - ---------- ------------------------------ End of DIY_EFI Digest V1 #292 ***************************** To subscribe to DIY_EFI-Digest, send the command: subscribe diy_efi-digest in the body of a message to "Majordomo@xxx. 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