On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Dave Engvall wrote:
>Hey! Those Volvo's were good to me. Driving the 122 108 hp I could
>hit the bottom the the Vantage grade (carrying 2 250 lb passengers)
>at 85 and come out the top at 85 12 mi later; only 2000 ft of
>elevation gain. Not bad for 1800 cc.
>I added a homebuilt 6 v SCR ignition to the 544 and added 2 mpg.
>
>Dave
I fondly recall a 544 one of the neighbors had many years ago. A bit odd
looking for the day, but built like a tank. And it ran when the key was in
the switch, even at -39F.
Another friend kept his kids in old 3 cyl ringdingy Saabs, making them do the
teardown & repairs when they forgot the Saab needed oil mix. He also did the
CD ignition thing on one of them, gaining about 5 mpg and 5 mph on the top
end. But that was his toy, not the kids. Those kids had no mother, and he
was determined that all of them were going to grow up as self sufficient
individuals. I've long since lost track of them but they were well on their
way by the time the youngest girl graduated from high school nearly 40 years
ago.
I made a CD ignition back in the 60's when they first came out, copying the
Delta design which was published in one of the electronics rags of the day,
but used junk box parts except for the toroid transformer, which I ordered so
it made close to the 600 volts the cap I had was rated at. So I had 575 volts
on a 2 uf cap, where the delta had 375 volts on a .5uf cap. That thing could
fire a hole full of broken rings until you had to pull the plug and drive a
rod into the hole to break the carbon away that had it totally blocked.
I had one of the local gas station guys check the oil in the fordomatic, a
water cooled C4, whose dipstick comes out right on top of the back plug on a
292 v8, & the plug boot wasn't very good & it nailed him. I had to hit the
junk yard for a new stick, there was about 5 feet of snow on the ground at the
time and we never did find it even later when the spring thaw was done. His
arm still ached 2 weeks later. And from that day on, it was me that checked
the oil in the tranny. I finally found the leak next spring, a joint in the
lines going to the cooler was leaking about a quart a month. That
engine/tranny was never intended to fit in that pickup, my favorite concealed
weapon in the stoplight grand prix. :) BIG rubber on the back, 5.44's in the
hoghead, it could do 60 on flat ground and 40 mph up a pine tree. Whatever I
hooked it to, moved. Great truck to go hunting in.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Osborn's Law:
Variables won't; constants aren't.
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