[email protected] said: > Although Mr. Wineland's IQ must be at least 50 points higher than mine, we do > have something in common. I too owned a '36 Ford in my youth, about the same > time as he did, although mine was a Cabriolet not a coupe, and I fitted it > with an OHV Studebaker V8, a smaller displacement clone of a Cadillac V8.
Speaking of V8s... Just a simple graph of idle speed vs time for the first few minutes after a cold start might be a fun high school science project. Is the idle speed of a modern warm engine locked to the CPU's crystal or is there a feedback loop setting some pollution or mileage parameter? In the old days (pre computer), there was some thermal input to the idle speed. I assume it was a bimetalic element. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
