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John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote in
news:5s0qge1p94tvuushtp1pp7tka3omcj4dkl@4ax.com:

Pity they discontinued the unblown 3.2 engine. Most everything now is
the whiney, peakey 2.0 turbo.

"blower" and "turbo" are two different things in IC engines.

A blower is a supercharger, and "blown" engines are 'supercharged' A
'turbo' is referred to as "turbocharged" and the short nickname of
"blown" is for supercharged engines, not turbocharged engines. They
are not "blown", they are "turbocharged', as there never was a moniker
given to that method, and there IS for superchargers.

So, "non-turbocharged" is right. "unblown' is not, UNLESS they had a
supercharged model as well.

VW owns Audi and VW had a supercharger design "scroll type" that may
have been used also by Audi.

 

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote in
news9csgel9a413jrbsmsniprl64dvfb5fbn9@4ax.com:

As I said, put any of those things in mud or snow and they will be
helpless. I spend a lot more time driving in the mountains than on
a
drag strip.

Nice try at a sidestep.

Your post referred to being set back in the seat.

You have this unending problem with accepting anything.

It is particularly glaring when you get shown to be in error.

I never made any such assertion here, but you do seem to have
suddenly sidestepped the subject to declare your little shitbox to
be so much better.

I'd bet that a $WD version of a Tesla would drive circles around
your "mountain climber" Audi. Hell, a Tesla with winter tires
would/could/does.

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:44:52 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote in
news:5s0qge1p94tvuushtp1pp7tka3omcj4dkl@4ax.com:

It's a lot lighter than some rusty old muscle car.

You have obviously never seen a 350HP small block V8 pull the front
wheels of an AMC Gremlin a foot and a half off the ground at the start
line.

You talk about weight. I talk about power. So despite the double
weight, dufus.... those muscle cars could STILL set you back in the
seat better than your shit V6. You obviously have no clue, but seem to
be full of stupid irrelavent comments like "rusty" and "old".

As I said, put any of those things in mud or snow and they will be
helpless. I spend a lot more time driving in the mountains than on a
drag strip.

Find me a Gremlin that's not rusty and old. Or that even still runs.
It's got to be one of the ugliest vehicles ever invented. The original
concept was, appropriately, sketched on an air sickness bag.

"Time magazine noted two definitions for gremlin: "Defined by
Webster's as 'a small gnome held to be responsible for malfunction of
equipment.' American Motors' definition: 'a pal to its friends and an
ogre to its enemies.'"
--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote in
news9csgel9a413jrbsmsniprl64dvfb5fbn9@4ax.com:

> Find me a Gremlin that's not rusty and old.

You really are an idiot, John. The Pacer was the bad car. The
Gremlin was actually popular, and putting a small block chevy V-8 in
one is decidedly a different car than the reviews you googled up.

Any muscle car would beat your Audi at setting one back in the
seat. Hell a 472 Cadillac would.

Or that even still
runs.

You are seriously stupid.

It's got to be one of the ugliest vehicles ever invented.

I agree, however, have you ever seen or remember the wacky
collector's cards one could get with "funny cars" on them?
There were even moulded figurs like the little army men we had
except bigger.

The original concept was, appropriately, sketched on an air
sickness bag.

Yeah, so was the stew that became you. Big deal. Again... nice
try.

"Time magazine noted two definitions for gremlin: "Defined by
Webster's as 'a small gnome held to be responsible for malfunction
of equipment.' American Motors' definition: 'a pal to its friends
and an ogre to its enemies.'"

Wow... Johnny can copy and paste.

The thread branch was about acceleration rate.

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:44:33 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote in
news9csgel9a413jrbsmsniprl64dvfb5fbn9@4ax.com:

Find me a Gremlin that's not rusty and old.

You really are an idiot, John. The Pacer was the bad car. The
Gremlin was actually popular, and putting a small block chevy V-8 in
one is decidedly a different car than the reviews you googled up.

But why would anyone want to do that? Hundreds of hours of dirty work
for a few seconds of front wheels up? Bizarre.

Fuel dragsters are even stranger. The mean run time between engine
explosions must be 50 seconds. Blowing up the occasional mosfet is
trivial in comparison.

I love my car. Do you love your car?


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:24:41 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote in
news9csgel9a413jrbsmsniprl64dvfb5fbn9@4ax.com:

As I said, put any of those things in mud or snow and they will be
helpless. I spend a lot more time driving in the mountains than on
a
drag strip.

Nice try at a sidestep.

Your post referred to being set back in the seat.

You have this unending problem with accepting anything.

I'm having fun. Are you having fun?


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[John Larkin]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:09:27 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 6/21/19 10:35 AM, John Larkin wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:44:09 -0400, krw@notreal.com wrote:

On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:33:31 -0700 (PDT), Rick C
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 3:50:40 PM UTC-4, Michael Terrell wrote:

Moron buys an EV, then damns everyone who won't. I haven't owned a car in over 25 years. Only trucks. The last car was a high powered, retired Sherriff's cruiser. I've owned smaller cars, but I am tall, and they were painful to drive. Even some trucks are too small for me to drive. My favorite car was a restored 1966 red GTO that could wrap the speedometer back to the zero pin.

I bought it with a blown engine and rebuilt it. I installed a heavy duty three speed automatic transmission in it, and modified the drive train and chassis to make it fit, in place of the two speed Powerglide transmission. Gasoline was 8.9 cents a gallon for high test, on base, and it wouldn't hold three dollars worth of gasoline.


The latest is a large SUV, because I needed the low chassis, and extra legroom to be able to get in and out without help. You can stick your electric skateboards where the sun doesn't shine, along with all your lies.

The United States of America is exporting oil, bitch!

How does it feel that every vehicle you've ever owned is pig dog slow compared to a Tesla? My model X which has plenty of room and carries up to 6 passengers will still stomp on anything you've ever owned. It won't wrap the speedo needle though, doesn't have one.

Musk's bitch at work. Amazing, even for a fanboi.

Tesla drivers seem to think in terms of alternating bursts of
acceleration and deceleration. I guess some people enjoy that, but I
know that a lot of passengers don't. Maybe they seldom have
passengers.

I have two driving modes; mine is pretty dynamic, but I tone the jerk
(1st derivative of acceleration, not a synonym for me) way down when
my wife is onboard. I know some guys who get sick from jerk too.

Funny, when she is driving the Audi she enjoys flooring it, like
getting onto a freeway. It's the 3.2L non-turbo V6 and really pushes a
bod into the seat.



telsa owners are the BMW owners of the EV world.

More like the Volvo owners.


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[Rick C]

On Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 12:37:41 PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:24:41 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote in
news9csgel9a413jrbsmsniprl64dvfb5fbn9@4ax.com:

As I said, put any of those things in mud or snow and they will be
helpless. I spend a lot more time driving in the mountains than on
a
drag strip.

Nice try at a sidestep.

Your post referred to being set back in the seat.

You have this unending problem with accepting anything.

I'm having fun. Are you having fun?

Yeah, I'm having fun. Getting ready to drive my Tesla.

--

Rick C.

+---+ Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
+---+ Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

 

[DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUn]

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highland_snip_technology.com> wrote in
news:c6msge568ollarot2h4t56lg0niclp4a1h@4ax.com:

But why would anyone want to do that? Hundreds of hours of dirty work
for a few seconds of front wheels up? Bizarre.

Nwadays, it costs money to enjoy a hobby. Back in the sixties and
seventies, folks had garages and engines could be had for a few dollars.

Some could not afford RC planes and cars and demolition derbies and
drag races was what were embraced.

You not seeing man for what he is or was is what is bizarre.

And *your* 'normal' is far off the mark from the common 'normal' of
the days when you came up. You're an oddball.

 

>He is right about the fact that fuel taxes are not used to pay >for roads and other taxes are used. It all goes into one large >budget and no one keeps track of what goes where.

Well if you subscribe to the big bucket theory then none of this matters.

 

Fuels tax does not pay for roads. Vehicle registration and >>license fees and state income taxes and federal income taxes do.

AlwaysWrong.

You win that one. It may not be known to those who live in their own little world but whether or not regular gasoline tax is partly apportioned for roads, which it is in many states, there is also diesel fuel.

Diesel fuel has a specific road use tax built in. Remember diesel was always cheaper than regular gas ? It is cheaper, but it is more expensive now because of taxes.

They have diesel some truckers use only in their reefer units etc. that is cheaper as it is not taxed for road use. It has red dye in it and if they catch any of this red dye, even one molecule of it in your main tanks, you know that run the engine, there is a HUGE fine for it.

When people are wrong it is one thing, when they always think they're right it becomes fun.

 

[DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUn]

jurb6006@gmail.com wrote in
news:3e88daff-9218-4a80-9070-c6d21b25c14d@googlegroups.com:

Fuels tax does not pay for roads. Vehicle registration and
license f
ees and state income taxes and federal income taxes do.

AlwaysWrong.

You win that one. It may not be known to those who live in their
own little world but whether or not regular gasoline tax is partly
apportioned for roads, which it is in many states, there is also
diesel fuel.

It does NOT, however, give the idiots with vehicles ANY right or
reason to bitch about a fucking thing. Electric cars are going to be
on the road. Bicycle riders are going to be on the road. FUCKYOU
and ANYONE ELSE who thinks we should not be.

Diesel fuel has a specific road use tax built in.

In SOME states.

Remember diesel
was always cheaper than regular gas ? It is cheaper, but it is more
expensive now because of taxes.

No. Looking at the proprtions of the changes, it is more now,
because of greed.

They have diesel some truckers use only in their reefer units etc.
that is cheaper as it is not taxed for road use. It has red dye in
it and if they catch any of this red dye, even one molecule of it
in your main tanks, you know that run the engine, there is a HUGE
fine for it.

When people are wrong it is one thing, when they always think
they're right it becomes fun.

And when you make retarded assumptions you look quite foolish.

I see exactly ZERO fuel content inspection stations out there, and
oh look... there are exactly zero instances of fuel being inspected
or citations being issued or fines being leveled. Fact is that was a
long time ago, and ALL fuel costs more now, and there are no breaks
for a claim of "running it in my reefer". Oh and just so you know,
your claims are a UK thing. Not even happening here.

So much for living in your own little world.

 

[DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUn]

jurb6006@gmail.com wrote in
news:e7cd917c-7032-4e71-9b60-d33c77f394b1@googlegroups.com:

Well if you subscribe to the big bucket theory then none of this
matters.

"subscribe"??? "theory"??? It is a known, established fact.

Do you have no knowledge of what "The General Fund" is?

Even if it were 100% true, ONE stupid tax payer does not have the
right to say what vehicles are allowed on the road.

Mail trucks are exempted... You gonna tell them to "get out of 'your
way'"?

 

> but I tone the jerk (1st derivative of acceleration, not a >synonym for me) way down when my wife is onboard. I know some >guys who get sick from jerk too.

I am exactly the opposite. Even as a kid, we got in the car, Dad is going to drive ! He would punch it, Ma wouldn't, except once in a while.

We would stand up right behind the front seat in the back and then the G force would slam us into the back seat and you couldn't wipe the smile off my face with a maddox.

I think Ma kinda liked being in control of three or four hundred horses, but she is very conservative. She won't push it. Now the olman was a fucking nut. He almost shot me a couple of times, his own flesh and blood, which Ma pointed out more than once with absolutely no pleasantry in her voice...

Yeah we're a car family, or used to be. I wonder if they are keeping the rule - you learn how to drive on a stickshift. And in the lessons are getting on the highway and we want to feel some acceleration - the book says "MATCH SPEED WITH ONCOMING TRAFFIC" which means to ACCELERATE until to are at approximately the same speed. Got to put your foot down. Our Women don't seem to get backing up all that well though. They do it but not well. That's OK though, other than Wives we had no girls in the family for about 35 years until my sister was born. The swooned over her for the first three years of her life, really disgusting...

My sister well, she got a DUI, said she was looking for first gear but she was clocked at 45. One of her cars, her boyfriend somehow put it in gear or something when they were arguing but she had it revved up, whatever, broke the engine mount, tranny mount and rear end mount in one fell swoop. I shudder to think what might happen if she a had a really powerful car.

She had a 1973 Cutlass at the time, 350. I had a couple of them, she had a couple of them, in fact we both got stopped in them on Hilliard in Lakewood on the way to a party. I'm not sure, I think she gave me one of hers, back then we thought nothing of this shit.

All this security n shit. The rule at Grampa's was if you park in the drive either leave the keys in it or hang them on the thing by the door. The last one who pulled in has the honor of loaning their car to anyone who needs it for a short run, but when leaving for home, you know for good for this time, then they take their own cars and whoever has to move moves. Or they send the kids out to do it.

Insurance ? The car insurance guys were the house insurance guys because nobody bothered getting insurance back then until they bought a house. Back then though you could pay off a wreck, I did a couple times. One time it was me, the other time it was the weather but the rules say it was me so it was me. Now you can't. It's $115,873, please remit within thirty days.

I sent three people to the hospital and it was $7,500 back in 1989. They were not hurt but the rules of common sense book say get them to the hospital for a quick Xray and exam so you KNOW you didn't hurt them. So it cost $7,500 for them to tell me they were fine. Of course I settled it for much less with their insurance company. The word "bankruptcy" works real good on them people.

How did we get here ? So what...

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 19:09:34 +0000 (UTC), DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
<DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org> wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highland_snip_technology.com> wrote in
news:c6msge568ollarot2h4t56lg0niclp4a1h@4ax.com:

But why would anyone want to do that? Hundreds of hours of dirty work
for a few seconds of front wheels up? Bizarre.


Nwadays, it costs money to enjoy a hobby. Back in the sixties and
seventies, folks had garages and engines could be had for a few dollars.

Some could not afford RC planes and cars and demolition derbies and
drag races was what were embraced.

You not seeing man for what he is or was is what is bizarre.

And *your* 'normal' is far off the mark from the common 'normal' of
the days when you came up. You're an oddball.

Absolutely, I'm one of the weirdest people who post to s.e.d.

I actually design electronics.


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:23:13 -0700 (PDT), jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:

but I tone the jerk (1st derivative of acceleration, not a >synonym for me) way down when my wife is onboard. I know some >guys who get sick from jerk too.

I am exactly the opposite. Even as a kid, we got in the car, Dad is going to drive ! He would punch it, Ma wouldn't, except once in a while.

Me too. I love violent motion... roller coasters, cars, motorcycles,
skiing steep stuff. I've been on small boats and big ships in storms
and never got seasick.

I think that's correlated with electronic design. Riding a dirt bike
on hills, or skiing over bumps, feels just like waveforms to me. It's
all dynamics.


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 09:42:30 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highland_snip_technology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:09:27 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 6/21/19 10:35 AM, John Larkin wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:44:09 -0400, krw@notreal.com wrote:

On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:33:31 -0700 (PDT), Rick C
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 3:50:40 PM UTC-4, Michael Terrell wrote:

Moron buys an EV, then damns everyone who won't. I haven't owned a car in over 25 years. Only trucks. The last car was a high powered, retired Sherriff's cruiser. I've owned smaller cars, but I am tall, and they were painful to drive. Even some trucks are too small for me to drive. My favorite car was a restored 1966 red GTO that could wrap the speedometer back to the zero pin.

I bought it with a blown engine and rebuilt it. I installed a heavy duty three speed automatic transmission in it, and modified the drive train and chassis to make it fit, in place of the two speed Powerglide transmission. Gasoline was 8.9 cents a gallon for high test, on base, and it wouldn't hold three dollars worth of gasoline.


The latest is a large SUV, because I needed the low chassis, and extra legroom to be able to get in and out without help. You can stick your electric skateboards where the sun doesn't shine, along with all your lies.

The United States of America is exporting oil, bitch!

How does it feel that every vehicle you've ever owned is pig dog slow compared to a Tesla? My model X which has plenty of room and carries up to 6 passengers will still stomp on anything you've ever owned. It won't wrap the speedo needle though, doesn't have one.

Musk's bitch at work. Amazing, even for a fanboi.

Tesla drivers seem to think in terms of alternating bursts of
acceleration and deceleration. I guess some people enjoy that, but I
know that a lot of passengers don't. Maybe they seldom have
passengers.

I have two driving modes; mine is pretty dynamic, but I tone the jerk
(1st derivative of acceleration, not a synonym for me) way down when
my wife is onboard. I know some guys who get sick from jerk too.

Funny, when she is driving the Audi she enjoys flooring it, like
getting onto a freeway. It's the 3.2L non-turbo V6 and really pushes a
bod into the seat.



telsa owners are the BMW owners of the EV world.

More like the Volvo owners.

Subaru owners are plenty smug.

 

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:44:33 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote in
news9csgel9a413jrbsmsniprl64dvfb5fbn9@4ax.com:

Find me a Gremlin that's not rusty and old.

You really are an idiot, John. The Pacer was the bad car. The
Gremlin was actually popular, and putting a small block chevy V-8 in
one is decidedly a different car than the reviews you googled up.

You are *ALWAYS* wrong, AlwaysWrong. The Gremlin was the biggest POS
ever built. ...and there was a lot of shit built by Detroit in the
'70s.

Any muscle car would beat your Audi at setting one back in the
seat. Hell a 472 Cadillac would.

AlwysWrong.

Or that even still
runs.

You are seriously stupid.

It's got to be one of the ugliest vehicles ever invented.


I agree, however, have you ever seen or remember the wacky
collector's cards one could get with "funny cars" on them?
There were even moulded figurs like the little army men we had
except bigger.


The original concept was, appropriately, sketched on an air
sickness bag.

Yeah, so was the stew that became you. Big deal. Again... nice
try.

"Time magazine noted two definitions for gremlin: "Defined by
Webster's as 'a small gnome held to be responsible for malfunction
of equipment.' American Motors' definition: 'a pal to its friends
and an ogre to its enemies.'"

Wow... Johnny can copy and paste.

The thread branch was about acceleration rate.

 

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 10:00:01 -0700 (PDT), Rick C
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

On Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 12:37:41 PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:24:41 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote in
news9csgel9a413jrbsmsniprl64dvfb5fbn9@4ax.com:

As I said, put any of those things in mud or snow and they will be
helpless. I spend a lot more time driving in the mountains than on
a
drag strip.

Nice try at a sidestep.

Your post referred to being set back in the seat.

You have this unending problem with accepting anything.

I'm having fun. Are you having fun?

Yeah, I'm having fun. Getting ready to drive my Tesla.

Evidently it takes a lot of preparation.

 

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 06:58:45 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:44:52 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote in
news:5s0qge1p94tvuushtp1pp7tka3omcj4dkl@4ax.com:

It's a lot lighter than some rusty old muscle car.

You have obviously never seen a 350HP small block V8 pull the front
wheels of an AMC Gremlin a foot and a half off the ground at the start
line.

You talk about weight. I talk about power. So despite the double
weight, dufus.... those muscle cars could STILL set you back in the
seat better than your shit V6. You obviously have no clue, but seem to
be full of stupid irrelavent comments like "rusty" and "old".

As I said, put any of those things in mud or snow and they will be
helpless. I spend a lot more time driving in the mountains than on a
drag strip.

Find me a Gremlin that's not rusty and old. Or that even still runs.
It's got to be one of the ugliest vehicles ever invented. The original
concept was, appropriately, sketched on an air sickness bag.

You're right, all the way around. I had a '70 POS Gremlin. They were
manufactured rusty.

"Time magazine noted two definitions for gremlin: "Defined by
Webster's as 'a small gnome held to be responsible for malfunction of
equipment.' American Motors' definition: 'a pal to its friends and an
ogre to its enemies.'"

The most appropriately named car ever build.