[Diy_efi] RE: Diy_efi digest, Vol 1 #413 - 12 msgs

[Adam Wade]

--- Erik Jacobs <emj14 at columbia.edu> wrote:

> You measure durability in how many times your engine
> blows up on the inertial dyno.

*laughs*  Sort of a crude (and dangerous!) method... 
If if blows up at ALL, something is VERY wrong with
it.  ;)  Assuming reasonable cooling, etc.  Of course,
if you are building a race engine and your primary
concerns are light weight and and high power, you may
compromise a bit on that...  But motorcycle engine
construction tells us it can be done without
reliability issues.

> Unfortunately the brake dyno (eddy current or
> otherwise) does not seem to be capable of this high-
> quality durability testing.

Oh, maybe that has been my problem all along, then!  ;)

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| Adam Wade                       1990 Kwak Zephyr 550 (Daphne) |
|   http://y42.photos.yahoo.com/bc/espresso_doppio/lst?.dir=/   |
| "It was like an emergency ward after a great catastrophe; it  |
|   didn't matter what race or class the victims belonged to.   |
|  They were all given the same miracle drug, which was coffee. |
|   The catastrophe in this case, of course, was that the sun   |
|     had come up again."                    -Kurt Vonnegut     |

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