From: tbruseha@hollywood.ems.cdc.com (Tom Brusehaver)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation
Subject: New Magazine
Summary: Motors, Homebuilders, Tech Stuff
Keywords: tech stuff, motors
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:44:50 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of Control Data

I found a guy starting a new magazine.  I have no relationship to
this, although I may subscribe to this new magazine.

(John writes in Midnight Engineering and is a very good writer).

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Introducing 

_Performance Engineering_ Magazine

The magazine for the mobility hacker


Those of us interested in the high technology end of high
performance face a real problem. There is almost no really
technical information  available to us or really even the trade.
There are the traditional hotrod  magazines which treat
something as esoteric as fuel injection as voodoo magic or
worse, "Gee-Whiz".  There is the SAE where _Automotive
Engineering_ publishes just enough information to whet the
appetite and SAE standards, the purchase of which requires the
budget of many third world countries.   

As I poke around in and out of industry, my worst fears are
being realized - that is, practically none of the modern
automotive research is being published because of obsessive
secrecy within American manufacturers.   Much of what is
published is so esoteric or theoretical as to be useless to the
average mobility hacker.  Most publication of interest is being
done in Japan in japanese  and thus mostly unavailable to the
average enthusiast or engineer.  There is no "how-to" magazine
for the 'rodder interested in doing more than just bolting on
parts and hoping they all work well together.  

I've decided to do something about it.  "Something" is "Performance 
Engineering", a magazine dedicated to the engineering side of 
high performance.

This magazine is chartered to provide the same depth of
technical and  engineering information  to the mobility field
(which includes practically anything that moves) as magazines
such as _Byte_ or _Circuit Cellar InK_ does for computers. There
will be a mix of theoretical and practical how-to articles, all
aimed at the individual enthusiast and the current and potential
small businessmen.  The publication will be subscription and
advertiser supported.  Authors will be paid a rate commensurate
with other  publications of similar circulation.  Theoretical
and/or articles that involve the design process will be
peer-reviewed for accuracy. 

In order to give you a flavor for what this publication will be, here is
a short list of topics:

*	Designing and building your own fuel injection system.
*	Blueprinting fuel injectors.
*	A homemade fuel injector tester for under $200.
*	Ignition system design.
*	How <system of your choice> works.  "Systems" can be anything from 
	OEM ECMs to ignition control boxes.
*	Do it yourself dynamometers for under $1000.
*	A homemade G-analyst.
*	A homemade flow bench.
*	A homemade exhaust gas analyzer
*	A homemade distributor curving machine.
*	Using Nondispersive Infrared Analysis of Exhaust gas for performance
	tuning.
*	High performance electric drive controllers (yep, electric cars too)
*	Design considerations for jet powered drag cars 
*	The science of nitro-methane and its use.
*	Instrumenting an exhaust system for performance optimization.
*	High performance hydrostatic drives.
*	Using a homemade radar gun for performance tuning.
*	Natural Gas as a high performance fuel.
*	Propane as a high performance fuel.
*	Home Shop heat treating.
*	Home Shop composites techniques and materials.
*	Home Shop anodizing.
*	Home Shop electroplating.
*	How to Emission Certify your hotrod.
*	The Ins and Outs of CARB EOs.


Coupled with this effort will be a subscriber-only mailing list
on the Net and a BBS for the net-less wonders out there :-) and
a mail order store where project kits and supplies can be
purchased.  This is not new; _Circuit Cellar Ink_ does it but
mine won't be the rip-off his is. ($350 for an 8051 SBC indeed!) 
Wouldn't it be nice to buy fuel injectors, MAP sensors, MAF sensors
and the like complete with mating connectors and  data sheets at
reasonable prices? Thought so.

A free sampler edition of the magazine will be available shortly.
First publication will be  in January 1993.
For a free copy of the sampler edition, send your name and address 
to me at perform@dixie.com.  Subscriptions are $24 per year for six issues.
To Canada, the rate will be $4 more for surface and $12 for air mail.
Other foreign markets, add $15 for additional postage.
No newsstand sales are planned at this time.  For those lacking Internet 
access, a free issue may be requested and/or subscriptions purchased 
by mailing a postcard to:

Performance Engineering Magazine
PO Box 669728
Marietta, Ga 30066


If you'd like to write for PE, particularly in one of the subject areas
listed above, send me a proposal to jgd@dixie.com.  Pay for articles is
based on the number of published pages and is competitive with 
similar publications.


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We believe each individual has an absolute right to privacy and that 
includes the right to control when and where his/her personal information
is used.  To that end, no personal information given to PE including but
not limited to name, address and phone number will ever be 
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John De Armond, Publisher.

PE is published by Rapid Deployment Systems, Inc.
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