[s-cars] ECU what is the trick to opening it

Kirby Smith kirby.a.smith at verizon.net
Fri Jan 2 10:30:39 EST 2004


Oops!!!

mea culpa

I'm not sure when Hoppen came up with that number; when I participated
in the group ECU buy through Anderson a while back, the list-touted
value was 270.

kirby


Robert Myers wrote:
> 
> At 07:52 AM 1/2/2004 -0500, Kirby Smith wrote:
> 
> > SAE HP = 98.629% of DIN HP.  So a US chip should be marked with a
> > _lower_ value than a German chip.
> 
> Negative, Kirby.  Ya got it backwards, old buddy.
> 
> SAE ponies are smaller than DIN ponies so it takes more of them to do
> the same work.
> 
> 1 SAE = 0.986 DIN  therefore:
> 
> 269 DIN ponies (IIRC the number) = 269/0.983 = 272 SAE ponies
> (not the 280 quoted by Hoppen et al).
> 
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