--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: EGT00028 Date: 12/22/97 From: JOHN RANGER Time: 11:09am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Size matters Hello all! Man, all I did was ask a question about batteries a month back and look't the number of msg's about size? *********************** John aka RANGER *************************** > Make your SYSOP Smile: Poll him daily! * Origin: Fight AIDS, not PEOPLE with AIDS....KBC-BBS (1:260/310.4) --- Squish v1.10 * Origin: -=:[ KBC Point 4 ]:=- (1:260/310.4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: EGT00029 Date: 12/23/97 From: C.A. KLINGEL Time: 09:12am \/To: JOHN PUMMILL (Read 0 times) Subj: Todd... -=> Quoting John Pummill to Roy Witt <=- RW> Yes, I would! :) Anything to make this 305 run better... JP> Come up with 45 more cubic inches ?? You got that right. I'm afraid the 305 SBC is a loser. :( Better to step up to the 5.7 and be done with the deed. :) Regards, Craig Klingel ... Q. How Fast Do You Want To Go? A. How Much Money Do You Have? --- Brought To You By VaporWare 3.0 * Origin: Winner's Circle (1:2410/351) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: EGU00000 Date: 12/23/97 From: MARC GERGES Time: 09:49pm \/To: MARTIN BISHOP (Read 0 times) Subj: 325i Salut Martin! -=> My 4cyl brings my car with 4 people to 110mph. It's a -=> 1.7-l-engine. Oh, and it's a diesel. MB> thats interesting.......what type of automoblie is it?? A Citroeen BX. There's a chance you have already seen one. Although Citroeen is not present on the american market, 9 cars have been imported in the US. OK, small chance :-) MB> anyway - i found out that the beamer was a '86 325 with a 6 MB> cylinder engine....now has over 100,000 miles on it.....top speed MB> according to the Illustrated BMW Buyers guide is 118 mph...so i MB> guess he was right up there! im the idiot... 118 sounds right for the car. MB> i never realized though why, if the top speed of that car is only MB> around 120 mph, the dash reads all the way up to 140???? and in MB> most camaros it reads only up to 80 or whatever [the late 80's MB> camaros]. wierd. Oh, that's about the german preferences for fast cars. 140 on the speedo looks more impressive than 120, doesn't it? cu .\\arc ...98% of politicians give the other 2% a bad reputation. --- * Origin: sympathy for the debil (2:270/47) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: EGU00001 Date: 12/23/97 From: MARC GERGES Time: 09:56pm \/To: JOHN PUMMILL (Read 0 times) Subj: Vector Auto Salut John! MG> Seeing that every second message on this echo is about MG> acceleration, I thought this was a strong point to be made MG> :-) JP> Some cannot see past the numbers. Indeed. MG> The McLaren F1 was tested at Nardi high speed circuit in MG> Italy, to find its top speed. They stopped testing at MG> 231mph. Not because that's the car's limit, but it is the MG> circuit's limit. And until they have found a faster circuit, MG> that's the car's indicated top speed :-) JP> We have dry lakes and salt lakes here in the States. Nardi circuit has no bumps in the surface that are bigger than 2 mm in height, and Gordon Murray, the engineer who designed the F1, insisted on the fact the car must not be driven on other surfaces than clean good roads. It has active aerodynamics and such stuff and 'loose' surface like salt could put a considerable problem on it at this speed. On the other hand: you know the price of that car? Why risk one to get it to 235 or 240, when 230 is already faster than everything else on the road... MG> BTW: many of the numbers stated here are like '14.5 at 102' MG> or so... could anybody tell me what that's about? I found in MG> the context of the mails that it is about acceleration, but MG> over what distance and up to what speed? JP> Quarter mile, the American way of measuring things. Quarter mile... that's about 400 m. The french give that number, the german's don't. They use acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h. cu .\\arc ...Jesus died for your sins. Make it worth his time. --- * Origin: sympathy for the debil (2:270/47) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: EGU00002 Date: 12/24/97 From: JAY EMRIE Time: 02:34pm \/To: TOM WALKER (Read 0 times) Subj: Silicone TW>-> RW> JE> So >> NO< IT DOES NOT GO AWAY IN THE OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT. TW>-> JE> TW>-> RW>> I say again, listen real close...B U L L S H I T ! TW>-> JE> TW>-> JE> All I can say is that you have positively proven that you do not TW>-> JE> what you are talking about. TW>-> TW>-> Either that or you positively don't know what you're talking about... TW> I VOTE fro the Latter as I also have seen Sicilone Sealant crumble into TW>dust from the effects of SMOG, Ozone and Ultraviolet radiation from TW>Sunlight. As has Anybody that made the Mistake of trying to seal a TW>Flashing Leak on their House roof with it! Now there Are some sealants TW>that will do the job but it is NOT the Garden Variety Sicilone Sealant TW>that is so popular. I'm afraid you were looking at something OTHER than silicone sealant. Silicone sealant is widely used around RV windows PRECISELY because it is NOT affected by UV, etc. RV windows are normally constantly exposed to the sun, ergo they would be affected more so than most other applications. Further, we were talking about silicone GREASE which is totally different than silicone SEALANT. * OLX 2.1 TD * America On Line? Nah. More like America on Hold! --- RemoteAccess 2.50+ * Origin: Northern Lights! * San Antonio * 210-499-6299 V34/VFC (1:387/23) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: EGU00003 Date: 12/23/97 From: JACK NELSON Time: 09:19pm \/To: KENNY HENDERSON (Read 0 times) Subj: Bugatti KH> The NSX is quite light, right around 3000 lbs if I remember KH> correctly. The RX7 is very light, something like 2700 lbs. The NSX was about the same weight. A few years ago I got crazy temporarily and seriously considered buying one but the 3000-mile tire life (no misprint - new tires every oil change, at $400 per tire) convinced me to get a much cheaper Supra turbo instead, but only after I had built a high-security garage for the NSX. KH> Mitsubishi's 3000GT VR4 is a portly 3950lbs. That's about what the Supra weighed. --- AdeptXBBS v1.07g (Registered) * Origin: Tempe, AZ USA (602)491-5285 (1:114/20) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: EGU00004 Date: 12/23/97 From: JACK NELSON Time: 09:19pm \/To: TOM WALKER (Read 0 times) Subj: Battery Terminals -=> Tom Walker wrote to Curious George Mehner <=- CGM> Why do cars now have battery terminals made of steel instead CGM> of lead, -> TW> The biggest reason is COST of the terminal itself I would TW> suspect. Bean Counters RULE detroit nowdays. CGM> What about the Japanese, who aren't nearly as famous for cutting CGM> corners? My Chevy Corolla has steel terminal connectors. TW> So do my Subaru's. BUT they are built in American Factories under TW> Heavy American Bean Counter influance. :-) :-) Then why are there steel instead of lead terminal connectors on my wife's made-in-Japan Toyota LS400, commonly known as a Lexus? No American influence there, only German. :-) --- AdeptXBBS v1.07g (Registered) * Origin: Tempe, AZ USA (602)491-5285 (1:114/20) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: EGU00005 Date: 12/23/97 From: ROY J. TELLASON Time: 03:01pm \/To: TOM WALKER (Read 0 times) Subj: Sears car battery! TOM WALKER wrote in a message to DON LEWIS: -> John Faerber wrote to John Ranger: -> -> JF> Has Sears ever done an electrical system check? -> -> Sears tested my alternator when I had the factory original battery -> replaced about 4 years after the car was bought, and I'm fairly -> certain they ruined the alternator in the process because it had -> been working normally that same morning. I won't let Sears touch -> my car. TW> Unless they had to Jump Start your car fro that Alternator Test TW> I find it HIGHLY unlikely they were the one that damaged the TW> Alternator. I can think of NO conceivable connection of the TW> Test Leads on a Charging system analyzer that would hurt the TW> alternator. How about doing a load test while the car is still running? Seems to me that'd tend to do it... email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-432-0764 (1:270/615) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: EGU00006 Date: 12/23/97 From: ROY J. TELLASON Time: 03:10pm \/To: ALAN MORRISON (Read 0 times) Subj: Battery sizes Alan Morrison wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason: -=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Don Lewis <=- DL> Here in Phoenix, some stores sell high-heat car batteries DL> with diluted electrolyte. I don't know if this is done to DL> improve performance or durability in hot climates or it's DL> just an economy measure. RJT> I've seen the Exide spec sheets on their overall automotive product AM> I am curious about the sizes of a few batteries if you still AM> have it. I don't have it, but I could probably get my hands on one... AM> Do you have the dimensions on groups 74, 75, and 78. If so AM> compare them to the "top post" counterparts (24,26,27...). A 74 is a side-terminal version of a 24, a 78 is a side-terminal version of a 34, and a 70 is a side-terminal version of a 26. I don't think that there's an exact corresponding post-type for a 75. RJT> the caps the interior of the batteries were full of what appeared to RJT> be styrofoam pellets. It was the weirdest thing I can remember running RJT> across in that job... RJT> Made it real hard to use a hydrometer, too! :-) AM> Maybe if all the little pellets were floating, it meant it was AM> in a good state of charge... Or they just did it for shipping! AM> I believe it was as someone else said and that they're in there to deter evaporation, cut down on water usage. I guess it's just too much trouble for some people to check the water level from time to time. Too many people buy that "maintenance free" stuff, and as far as I'm concerned there ain't no such thing. email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-432-0764 (1:270/615) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: EGU00007 Date: 12/23/97 From: ROY J. TELLASON Time: 03:16pm \/To: MICHAEL GRAHAM (Read 0 times) Subj: Electrical conduction Michael Graham wrote in a message to Mark Logsdon: MG> Now back to cars: If I switch from water cooling to mercury MG> cooling, how small can I make the radiator and water jacket? Heh. Try and get THAT one past the EPA... :-( email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-432-0764 (1:270/615)