At 23:52 6/2/2000, Horace K. Sawyer wrote:
>Other than that, head pressure is important too.  I am working on a guage
>to measure mine.  : )

Prolly deducible from how many beers it takes before steam stops coming out
of your ears -- you could work up a graph.

>  Head pressures can be measured by the coefficient of
>the vector forces rebounding from a piston's doppelganger effect as viewed
>from an impartial jury.  I mean, impartial observer.  Impartial  . . .
>impartial,  something.  Well, maybe it was "in part" by  . . . , something.
>  Oh crap just forget it.  Where is David Beierl at this time of night anyway!

He was away, but has no idea what you're talking about anyway, so...
<g>.  I bet that a modern etched-silicon pressure transducer could be made
to work somehow, and run to a peak-reading circuit.  They can be very small
-- dunno how much temp they can stand, though.

d
ps -- re the TIT gauge, you know something about V'gon engines I
don't?  Aren't you the guy with the "Why men crash their Porsches" home
page (or is that Ben T)?  Hmmm...

David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"