[s-cars] question for those with boost gauges

[David Kase]

oh yeah, regular chick magnets we are here in the engineering office...


David Kase
Engineering Manager
PDQ Industries
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Dave Forgie wrote:

>Yeh.  Typically, lines like, "Hey baby, want see my 9 inches (of mercury vacuum)?" is a real winner with the ladies.
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>Dave F.
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>>>>"matt ludwig." <urs6avant at gmail.com> 11/30/06 08:51AM >>>
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>man, Engineering-speak-correctedness really turns me on. must be a  
>variable hot-bed of pick-up lines in those offices....
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>matt ludwig.
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>1995.5 S6 Avant
>South Portland, Maine
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>On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Dave Forgie wrote:
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>>Dave:  I am sure that you must know that, in Engineering-speak, the  
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>> mercury" is typically silent when discussing vacuum.
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>>Likewise when discussion air pressures and losses in an HVAC system  
>>"of water column" is silent when saying the head loss is, say, 5  
>>inches.
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>>;>)
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>>Dave F. Ph.D., P.Eng.
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>>>>>David Kase <davekase at pdqlocks.com> 11/30/06 03:50AM >>>
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>>He does mean "inches of mercury" (unless something is horribly wrong)
>>and I think you mean "inches of mercury of vacuum", not "inches of
>>vacuum".  There is no such thing as an inch (or pound) of
>>vacuum/boost...  :-P
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>>Dave Kase
>>anal engineer...
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>>Dave Forgie wrote:
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>>>Mike: I think you meant 13 inches of mercury (Hg).  Anyway, at  
>>>idle it varies. When the car is first started and the rings, etc.  
>>>haven't fully expanded (with heat), I will get in the order of 10  
>>>or 12 inches of vacuum.  When the car is warm, it will be in the  
>>>14 to 16 inches of vacuum range.  They only time I get 20 inches  
>>>of vacuum is when the car has been run hard and then the throttle  
>>>is closed quickly.
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>>>I have both an AudiMeter Phantom and a Kevin Day TDS-1 digital  
>>>information system (with digital boost/vacuum) to confirm this data.
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>>>YMMV
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>>>Dave F.
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