Project Execution and Strategy

[JShadzi at aol.com]

Ok, Ken, here are a few suggestions to get the most out of the list, IME and
IMO:

1)  Ask clear, short, concise questions.  Your emails are books, and frankly,
I wish I had the time to read them, much less reply, but I can't, there is no
way.  I usually scroll down half way, chuckle, and hit delete - its just too
long.

2)  Don't think out loud.  We don't need to hear all your trains of thought,
its confusing, tough to follow, and is not productive to you getting your
answer.  Granted, it could lend the reader insight to "where you are coming
from", but as per point one, not many of us have the liberty to psychologize
your posts and make the best response.  Quickly address the context of your
question, and ask the question- let us who will respond do the rest.  Maybe
writing all that stuff out helps you, so do it, just don't send it to the
list expecting it to be well recieved.  You have completely overwhelmed and
excluded anyone on this list with a full time job (and a life) from
responding to your recent posts.

3) Use the list as a last resource, exhaust all your channels of information
before coming to the list.  I say this referring to custom, never been done
kind of stuff, not factory procedures.  Look through the archives, in the
last few years you will see nary a post from me about efi specific questions.
 The list has some powerful implications for gathering information, but there
are probably better lists and resources to gather the specific info you are
looking for.  And, not that there is anything *wrong* with sending lots of
questions to the list, but you will have better results if you try other
sources first IME.

4)  Don't be afraid to try things on your own first before going to the list,
the list can't hold your hand through everything.  Measuring voltage of a
voltage souce is a standard procedure, you can't damage a 5 volt source by
measuring it with a DMM, just try it and see the voltage fluctuations
yourself.  If you make a mistake, then you just learned something, and that
is valuable.

5)  K.I.S.S.

Ok, today was a long day at work, back to sitting on the couch staring at the
TV, avoiding any mental stimulation.

Javad

<< Oh yeah, I can't deny that.  Basically some of it is in response to
 some emails that I read.  All I know about are issues that people
 bring up, but I have no point to reference to know how "real-world"
 of an issue they are.  Criticisms of batch-fired injections versus
 sequential, or cam-fired ignition versus crank-fired.  Yes, these are
 all issues, but since I don't know how much weight to give each, I
 try to mitigate all I can.

 For me it takes discussion for me to understand the significance of
 these issues.  Outside of this list and the internet, I have no peers
 with similar interests or experience, especially locally.  Since there
 was no discussion, I was not growing.  It would be different if I was
 set off in some direction to conquer my ignorance, but I had no
 next step to take but the step I thought I had to take.  That step
 was to build up from scratch, and understanding of the whole darn
 situation (measuring piston location, crank position, waveforms
 with a o-scope).  That's a lot of stuff, especially when it's quite
 possible that I don't necessarily "need" to know all that stuff.  (If I
 can split the hall window in two, and use the 62 degree ref pin
 location to be in the "center", then I can just tell the ecu
 manufacture to go ahead and make the falling and rising edges that
 are expected, be at 82 and 42 degrees btdc cyl 1.  Sounds easy,
 but I didn't get that answer (and still haven't, actually) until after
 basically having a fit here at the keyboard.
  >>