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Technogeeks and mathgeeks, Alan and I were doing homework last night and discovered these two sites for guys who are into engines and math and engineering. We are going to put easements onto the curves of the train layout, maybe, and we found these places by accident. Professor Calvert's pages are worth the time. Dudes, visit there!
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/index.htm
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/index.htm
Curtis, stop bragging about your weather. Donny says you are not too old to spank.
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Yes, Jon,
You seem to have used up the last hour or so. What a wonderful collection of stuff. You might like this animation of a Wankel.
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That isn't what it looks like when I wankle! ::-)
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This is really cool! IT took me a while to understand that the crankshaft and the eccentric and piston assembly all rotate, and the center gear is part of the crankcase itself. Keeping the three seals lubricated must be a real job. That's seals as in piston-to-cylinder seals, not seals as in barking ball-throwing circus animals. I'm sure somebody will make some lewd suggestion about lubed seals and Eskimos!
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Mechanical wankle could be the cumming thing! And reminds me of a limmerick!
There was a young lad of Racine,
Who invented a jack-off machine!
But after only one stroke,
the flywheel broke!
And now his cock is cream!
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Mazda currently uses the Wankel engine in their RX-8 sports coupe. It was first commercially used in Mazda cars in the mid-1970's. Pluses for the engine: smooth power, no internal vibrations, very high rpm capability, like in motorcycle territory. Minuses; poor fuel economy, no low end torque (has to be revved to get a fast start), and you were right, Jon, about the problems with the apex seals. They had a hell of a problem with the first gen engines losing compression. Even now, if you have an RX-7 that has sat a long time without running, the best way to coax the seals back to life is to pour a little transmission fluid into the carb. BTW, am I the token car guy on the board?
Scott
Cycling is the one sport where a guy can shave his legs, wear spandex and bright colors, and be accepted.
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Southern boys are all car guys! Even though we all drive pick-up trucks! Jon's grandfather has a 1952 Buick Roadmaster four door sedan with straight eight engine in it! It's massive! No fiberglass or plastic on her! And let me tell you, that girl will move down the road! We road in it to Junior Prom last year, and we're going to ride in it to Senior Prom this year. The radio in it only gets AM stations, and has those tube things in it!
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He must have been related to
The young lad of Millnockett,
who stuck his cock in a socket.
Along came a bitch,
and flipped on the switch,
and his balls jumped into his pocket
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You can lubricate my seals anytime! That grease gun you carry around with you does the job real well! And you better stop looking at boy pics in English and trying to hide that boner you got going on!
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There once was a lad of Boston
who drove around in a tiny Austin.
He room for his ass
and plenty of gas
but his balls hung out
and he lost 'em.
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You should never have given him that web site addy.
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you......
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my grandpa has a 1950 something Studabaker Grand Tarrisimo Hawk, with a 4 speed manual transmission and a 429 ford V8 engine, tubo charged and its all factory.
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you......
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Here is a picture of my brother's 1929 Lagonda. Weymann-bodied (Ash frames joined by metal and covered with stretched leather) with 2 litre DOHC engine designed by W O Bentley. In top gear on tickover it is going at 40 miles an hour. Notice there is no driver's door. The accelerator pedal is in between the brake and clutch and the gear lever is to the right of the driver. He changed the front apologies for mudguards and put on the original-style helmets which turned with the front wheels.
Photo taken in the 1950s sometime. My brother died in 1997 but his wife still has it and his collection of other old cars Fiat Unic, Citroen light 15 and various Mercedes and Peugeot wonders. This is the best, though.
Love,
Anthony
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>BTW, am I the token car guy on the board?
I think you can see by the responses that you're not the only car guy. Now I think you should post the pic of your restored Packard so these boys can drool a little. After all, teens can get hard looking at anything sexy! ::-)
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Hey! Boats and cars have a beauty of design that borders on the erotic. When I was working on the '54 Chris-Craft over the summer, parts of it were like making love to a boat. Smoothing the different pieces, fitting things together.
I have never seen a Packard car in person, but my Grandad owned one in the late Forties and early Fifties. A Patrician? I think that's what it was called. HIS grandfather owned a Packard that had a little compartment for golf clubs! he got tanked up one night and made a wrong turn and drove himself into the Sound!
This summer a big Trumpy came through the ICW with TWIN PACKARD V-12'S!! They were like airplane engines, and they still ran like watches.
The coolest thing I ever did on an engine was help pour and hand scrape and fit babbitt bearings on an old tractor engine. Eldon helped too.
We used to have a steam traction engine on the farm that operated all the threashers and corn husking and hulling equipment. It went in one of the big scrapmetal drives during WWII. It would be awesome to get one and restore it.
Can we please see the Packard car?
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Cool, I'm glad I'm not alone. I figured most guys are into cars in some form.
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Cycling is the one sport where a guy can shave his legs, wear spandex and bright colors, and be accepted.
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Cycling is the one sport where a guy can shave his legs, wear spandex and bright colors, and be accepted.
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That's not just a car, that's an automobile!!
Oh, man, back then they weren't just transport, but works of art too. She's beautiful! It's so hard to believe that she was the lower-end model line. I really like the wide-white-walls you put on her tires. Those are very stylish and I think set the car off very well. Is the interior that mohair stuff? That's what's in the '52 Buick. My Grandma made terrycloth slip covers for the seats because the original material they used to restore the interior is so scratchy in the summer heat. Is the engine a flat head or did they have OHV's then? The V-12's I saw were flat heads. Do you have to add that lead additive to the gasoline to help with preventing valve seat burning? Lapping valve seats is something else I know how to do, and I know how to use a torque wrench to get the head seated properly too.
Funny that you should mention the Chrysler hemi. That Chris-Craft runabout I restored this past summer was re-engined with a 1954 Chrysler Hemi engine. The spark plugs are at the bottom of these weird tubes that go through the valve cover, have ring gaskets, and are between the two rocker arms and the two rocker shafts. Right down into the center of the domed cylinder head. And the spark plug wires are under little covers of their own. They don't think they will be able to restore it.
Thanks so much for sharing the picture! Incredible!
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Thanks for the compliments!
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