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    Pulsing brake lights on new vehicles

    Smallest measurement round these parts is a gnat's c**k.
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    Pulsing brake lights on new vehicles

    The driver's handbook of my recently acquired 2008 Volvo S40 D5 (UK model) says if the ABS activates, the brake light pulses. So far I've only managed to try out the ABS once and that was when a large hare ran out from the hedge at 5:45 a.m on a single track road. Just missed it, by a hare's...
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    Why not have 2-stroke Diesel with exhaust port intake valve?

    I used to ride a BSA C15 four stroke to college (well, forty years ago I did) and often saw an old boy on an ancient but immaculately kept Francis Barnett 2 stroke (complete with tall windscreen and steel leg guards). A classic "Frantic Barnyard", as we used to call them. We used to stop at a...
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    Oil change conundrum

    I read some long time ago that BMW's original service indicator system for their fuel injected engines cars took all sorts of inputs to calculate the oil change interval, quite a complicated process. Then someone realised that just keeping tabs on the amount of fuel run through the engine...
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    Not another one.......

    Checked with our company refuelling specialist just now. He says that the anti-static additive is put into the fuel at point of manufacture, i.e well before it gets into the dispensing bowser. He re-iterated my point that anti-icing additive may sometimes be added at the time of refuelling an...
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    Not another one.......

    Yes, this I would agree with. To the best of my knowledge, it's certainly not done as I understood from your original quote: "Jet A1 will get an injected dose of static inhibitors just before it is loaded onboard an aircraft". To clarify the situation in my own mind, I'll ask our tame...
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    Not another one.......

    I think the mixing of an anti-static additive must be done well before it gets to the aircraft refuelling point. The articles I found via Google search mentioned nothing about this; the only references I did find mentioned an anti-static additive as part of the fuel specifications, presumably...
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    Not another one.......

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    Not another one.......

    I have been flying for a living for 35 years. Aviation fuel bowser hoses are required to be bonded / earthed to the airframe. The bowswer is also bonded to the airframe, via a separate lead to the airframe. Obviously, the initial static difference between the hose and airframe is discharged...
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    diesel vs gas

    JSTEVE2, Starting wasn't straightforward. The engines needed preheat to working temperature and the vehicle was push started but once on boost it took the world speed record for a diesel powered car. The company is JCB and the vehicle is called DieselMax.
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    diesel vs gas

    The Company I used to work for made and ran a successful CI engine with a CR of around 10:1. But it used very high boost to compensate.
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    Side by side fuel injectors in open manifold.

    Pat, I actually spelled out my original objective in post #1! Quite a number of folk have had things to contribute (I'm grateful for all of it) and the scope has become wider than I expected. I asked what seemed a simple question in the first place and have received answers on things I didn't...
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    Side by side fuel injectors in open manifold.

    I agree it will probably produce no more power than a carburettor due to airflow issues already discussed, but as I've already tried to emphasise, this isn't the main aim of the conversion. I've had practical problems, especially during off road trials with different carbs, which the TBI should...
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    Side by side fuel injectors in open manifold.

    Yesterday I spoke to the proprietor of CANEMS, who manufacture one of the aftermarket injection systems available in UK. I was assured their system will work well, provided that the single injector has sufficient capacity to provide all the fuel required. With this in mind I've also been in...
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    Side by side fuel injectors in open manifold.

    (Quote) If this is a race car, you need to build a race car and stop fussing about with relatively minor problems. (Unquote). Sorry guys, we're obviously talking at crossed purposes here. This is definitely not a race car and power is certainly not the only priority. If I wanted to build a race...
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