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From: hotrod@dixie.com (The Hotrod List)
Subject: Re: using O2 sensor for carb tuning
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:56:33 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.
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> Until Performance Engineering completes its series on DIY fuel
> injection I'm stuck using carbs on my vehicles.  I'd like to use
> an O2 sensor to set the mixtures, but I'm unsure how to hook one
> up. Is there any more to it than hooking it up to the proper input
> voltage and measuring the output voltage? Could someone enlighten
> me? Thanks.
> 
> ----------
> Posted by: emory!sprite.Berkeley.EDU!jhh (John H. Hartman)

For a 1-wire sensor, put it in the collector of your header, and read the
voltage (between the wire and ground) with a high-impedance voltmeter,
prefferably analog, but digital seems to work ok for me.  .45 volts is
stoich, higher is rich, lower is lean.  I don't know what voltages
correspond to theoretical rich peak power and lean peak economy.


-- 
Jon Lusky
lusky@gnu.ai.mit.edu

 79 Rx-7 12A/Holley 4bbl
 67 Camaro/350/4spd (under construction)
 89 Jeep Wrangler/258 (currently self destructing)

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Posted by: emory!gnu.ai.mit.edu!lusky
Newsgroups: alt.hotrod,wiz.hotrod
From: hotrod@dixie.com (The Hotrod List)
Subject: Re: Ken Duttwieller does a FORD
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 06:42:13 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.
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> -> only the exhaust housing is replaced by a drive pulley.  The article
> -> goes thru all the reworking that Ken did to make the motor stand up
> -> to the challenge and then shows some of the one-off stuff that he
> -> fabricated for the project.
> 
>  A one-off what?  Duttweiler made a pulley, or whittled a whole blower
> out of aluminum?  The info I got from Vortech a couple of years ago
> showed a curve falling off drastically at about 10psi, and 10psi ain't
> gonna get you 700hp!
>                                                                              
> ----------
> Posted by: emory!chaos.lrk.ar.us!dave.williams (Dave Williams)

Well, first I'd say he obviously isn't running 93 octane gas, so its
probably decent compression (10.5:1?) plus 10 psi boost, possibly more
boost if he's running a pair of Vortech's rather than a single one.
Intercooling is fairly uncommon in supercharged applications, but I'd be
very surprised if he wasn't using one which should help some (as a datapoint,
we were getting a little over 300F rise in intake temp pushing 10psi boost
at 6000 engine rpm on a 350 chevy with a roots type blower (running
natural gas, no cooling due latent heat of evaporization like you have
when you sit a carb on top of the blower).  Regardless, I know the GTO
guys are pushing ~650hp from smallblocks normally aspirated with carbs,
it doesn't surprise me that he can get 750hp with a blower and EFI.
I guess I ought to read the article...  (especially since we just
ordered a Vortec for the NGV truck).


-- 
Jon Lusky
lusky@gnu.ai.mit.edu

 79 Rx-7 12A/Holley 4bbl
 67 Camaro/350/4spd (under construction)
 89 Jeep Wrangler/258 (currently self destructing)

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Posted by: emory!gnu.ai.mit.edu!lusky
Newsgroups: alt.hotrod,wiz.hotrod
From: hotrod@dixie.com (The Hotrod List)
Subject: Rack & Pinion retrofit for old 'Stangs
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 18:37:16 GMT
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[stuff about early Mustangs' hydraulic cylinder type power steering deleted]

> I have many times looked into replacing the entire set up with a rack and
> pinion from a late-model car.  But this would require a lot of custom
> fabrication, which I do not have the skill or resources to perform.
> I heard about someone doing this already, and is actually marketing a
> kit, but I didn't get enough information about it to pursue it.  Anyone
> with such details is welcome to comment.

Ditto on the information for an adaptor kit to put late model r&p steering
on an early Mustang/Cougar/Fairlane/etc. I have a 1969 Cougar XR7 with the
390 engine and the power steering system on this car is a piece of crap that
leaks like a sieve and when it does work, it totally removes all road feel
from the steering wheel and is way too much power assist (I can turn the wheel
from lock to lock with my little finger sitting still with the engine at idle)
and when it doesn't work I need Popeye's can of spinach to turn the wheel. I
really don't want to put the front end in such a state that it cannot be 
returned to stock condition if I ever decide to restore it but if someone
makes a rack&pinion retrofit kit that's all bolt-on I sure would            
appreciate the info.

Thanks,
Neal Howard (neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org)

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Posted by: Neal Howard <emory!gatech!cmptrc.lonestar.org!neal>
Newsgroups: alt.hotrod,wiz.hotrod
From: hotrod@dixie.com (The Hotrod List)
Subject: more 351 stuff
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 20:11:46 GMT
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-> [ Well, one could turn one of the Grand Mal engines into anair
-> compressor.  Jus valve springs on the intakes so they act as

 Nah.  I just bought one of those enormous 66-gallon Campbell-Hausfield
compressors.  It was on sale for $395.  Looks like it'll take six
gorillas to move it.

 Besides, at least one of the engines will be used to develop the PE
Econo Dyno Project.  Probably the 350, since that's the closest to
completion.  We also have the forthcoming motored flow bench project.
                                                                               

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Posted by: emory!chaos.lrk.ar.us!dave.williams (Dave Williams)
Newsgroups: alt.hotrod,wiz.hotrod
From: hotrod@dixie.com (The Hotrod List)
Subject: Re:  power steering bracket
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:33:26 GMT
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I am guessing that your car has power steering.  On the early Mustang,
this is implemented by a power cylinder attached to the drag link that
runs between the tie rods on either side.  A piston rod comes out of this
cylinder, and its end is attached to a bracket bolted to the left frame 
rail of the car, at about where the front edge of the door.  The cylinder 
provides the power assist by piston pushing or pulling against the bracket.
The bracket is sort of T shaped, with the leg of the T bolted from under
the frame rail, and one arm of the T bolted through the side of the frame.
The other arm of the T has a single hole into which the piston rod is
bolted through rubber bushings.  (The whole assembly is a rather lousy
design and is prone to slop and leakage.)

Some headers may interfere with the piston rod using the stock mounting
set up.  Some of the aftermarket companies know this, and sell a T bracket
with a much longer arm on which the piston rod bolts to.  This lowers the
rod by 1 to 2 inches at the frame rail side, helping clear headers that
would otherwise contact the power cylinder and rod assembly.

I have many times looked into replacing the entire set up with a rack and
pinion from a late-model car.  But this would require a lot of custom
fabrication, which I do not have the skill or resources to perform.
I heard about someone doing this already, and is actually marketing a
kit, but I didn't get enough information about it to pursue it.  Anyone
with such details is welcome to comment.

eyc

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Posted by: emory!hanauma.Jpl.Nasa.Gov!chu (Eugene Chu)
Newsgroups: alt.support
From: cath@stud.cs.uit.no (Catherine Sundnes)
Subject: Re: Is there a newsgroup for eating disorders or body image?
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:48:10 GMT

In article <chris-171292083148@piglett.cc.ucf.edu>, chris@aquarius.cc.ucf.edu (Chris Maukonen) writes:
|> Actually Cath, this should be one of the better places to post. 

Welliwelliwell... I've survived so far and x-mas doesn't seem as bad as
a few days ago when I took a small overdose of some pills... But: I'd be
VERY happy if anyone would send me some cards for x-mas and new year! I just
love getting cards and that would cheer me up a lot if somebody sent me some
words...

	Cath
-- 
#               cath@stud.cs.uit.no             #  Catherine Sundnes     #
#                                               #  Roedhettestien 7/B209 #
# Student at the World's nothernmost University #  N-9010 Tromsoe        #
# "To eat or not to eat - that's the question." #  Norway (Europe;-)     #
From: jeffp@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM (Jeffrey L Powell)
Newsgroups: alt.support
Subject: Feeling beaten...Could use some support.
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:07:46 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.



I need some encouragement....

I've had a period of bad times (depression,divorce and a failed
relationship) that I had just put behind me. I was looking
forward to my future when (two weeks ago) I had a heart attack.

I'm only 48, active and was lookig forward to the next few years.
Now I'm not sure of anything....

Somehow knowing that I survived and the emergency angioplasty
seems to be succesful doesn't mean much....

So any words of wisdom are appreciated.


Thanks,


Jeff
jeffp@riverwhy.PEN.TEK.COM
From: nanis@ll.mit.edu (Jeff Nanis)
Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
Subject: Re: Cancer scare
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:07:11 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <AfAIrai00iUxM5SUxA@andrew.cmu.edu> tg2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tami Grudzinski) writes:
>I believe that the scares are not all that uncommon. 

	Unfortunately, you're right. Based on both my own experiences
and stories I've heard at my cancer survivor support group at the Deaconness
in Boston, every doctor's exam with less than immediate results, every
unexplained fever or persistent pain is a potential scare.

-- 
  Jeff Nanis				MIT Lincoln Lab
		An official opinion? Be real. 

  nanis@ll.mit.edu			Radars 'r' us.
Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
From: wang@cedar.nrl.navy.mil (Dennis Wang)
Subject: Re: Son with leukemia
Reply-To: wang@cedar.nrl.navy.mil
Organization: Naval Research Lab
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:53:24 GMT

My 4 1/2 year old daughter was diagnosed with ALL on 9/30/91.  We are worried about some of the same things you are.  We did get a copy of a paper concerning learning
disabilities in children with leukemia.  The gist of it was that yes there is a 
slight problem on the order of one standard deviation or less on the standardized tests.  I will get you the reference.

We also went through a very tramatic episode in Sept 1992.  My daughter got a case of
septis (blood infection) and went into respiratory arrest twice.  This occurred
shortly after checking into the hospital and the start of antibiotics.  The theory 
was that the antibiotics clobbered the bacteria, which then died wholesale releasing
all of their toxins at once.  My daughter's fever rose from 102 to 105 in half an
hour.  They had to sound a Code Blue for her.  I thought that she had died in my arms.
I felt her hands and feet go cold.  

She was in the ICU for three days and when she came out she was totally unresponsive.
I was far worse emotionally than the inital leukemia diagnoses a year ago.  My wife
and I thought that her mind was totally gone.  She even forgot how to eat and
intravenous food was necessary.  It went on like this for a week.

She is on the mend now and I think that most people would see her as a normal 4 year
old girl.  In the past three months we have been to a neurologist, psychologist and
a set of speech and occupational therapists as well as her regular oncologist.  She
resumed preschool in Oct. and seem to be doing fine, although she has lost the sight
in one eye.  The retina specialist cannot pin down exactly when the sight was lost,
but I am convinced that it is a result of this episode since the intra cranial pressure was abnormally high and presumed to put pressure on the back of the eyeball
which was why we had the vision examined.

After all this I see almost a complete recovery to the point where we were in August.
I do think that my daughter needs some extra work to stay with the other kids in her
class.  She is working on writing her name now, something that other kids in her class
can do.  Nonetheless I think that she is a testimonial to the strength of kids and
their ability to heal.



---
Dennis Wang
Solar Physics Branch - Code 7660
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
4555 Overlook Ave SW
Washington DC 20375-5000

E-mail: wang@cedar.nrl.navy.mil
Voice : (202)-767-3137	Fax   : (202)-404-7997'

Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
From: patm@homer.ds.boeing.com
Subject: Son with leukemia
Organization: Boeing Defense & Space Group
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:33:01 GMT

I am interested in talking to anyone who has or has a child with Leukemia.
I am interested in behavioral, learning problems since the diagnosis of
leukemia.

To be more specific my son who is now 4, was diagnosed with leukemia when he
was 3. And now that the hardest part is over for now we are having problems
getting him to mind.


Any suggestion or experiences would be appreciated.


thanks

mitchell@atc.boeing.com
From: mdm@bnr.ca (Diane MacMartin)
Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
Subject: Chemotherapy questions
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:39:12 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa

I have just found this newsgroup, so please forgive me if my post is
inappropriate.  I am in kind of a state of shock, coupled with a lot of
questions.

My dad (65 years old, non-smoker) has recently been diagnosed with
cancer.  He and my mom are in very good spirits, at least around me and
my sisters.  He had a large cyst-type growth in his cheek, and it turns
out that it is a malignant tumor in his lymph gland.

We don't want to ask too many questions, but he tells us that the
preliminary results of his testing are that it has not spread elsewhere
and that treatment will completely eliminate the cancer.

He will, however, have to undergo chemotherapy.  Is this an indication
that he is not telling us everything, that it is more serious than he is
saying?  Originally, he thought radiation would take care of it, but he
said that because there are so many lymph nodes, surgery and radiation
are not adequate.

He is not sick now, he feels fine.  He knows, and we know, that he will
be unwell for the 6 to 9 treatments, 3 weeks apart; they start on New
Year's Eve.  (I think that's the schedule.)

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can make this time easier
for him?  He has never, never since I can remember complained about any
ailments, minor or major, that he has had; he is a very good patient and
my mom is a GREAT caregiver.  Maybe if I could know what to expect, I
could ease things somewhat.  For example, the hair falling out and
nausea - are these always results of chemo?  Is there anything else? 
Anything I should or could do?  Anything to help my mom?

My family is putting on a happy face, and at this early stage, don't
want to contemplate the worst; as I mentioned, we don't ask too many
questions of my dad and mom.  We will have a happy Christmas (we are a
very close family - they have four daughters, three sons-in-law, and
nine grandchildren, and the kids are too young to give too many details
to) but the next few months will be hard.  My parents are quite
religious, which I am sure is helping them right now.

Thank you for any help; post or email replies would be fine.

-- 
Diane MacMartin       Bell-Northern Research, Ltd     Ottawa, Canada
mdm@bnr.ca            Any opinions are my own and do not represent BNR.
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Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
From: nanis@ll.mit.edu (Jeff Nanis)
Subject: Brains (was Re: Cancer scare)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:47:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.173311.24468@netcom.com> ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear) writes:

>A couple of months ago I reported in, complaining of irritability, sleep
>disorder, short-term memory loss, inability to concentrate....  Sure
>enough, he ordered a C/T scan of my brain.  I'm the only person in my
>office with a certified normal brain.  :-)

	Me, too! After four months of chemo (Cisplat, 4-Fluorouracil,
Leukovorin) for a recurrence on my liver, I had a grand mal siezure.
They gave me a head CT in the ER and everything was normal. It turns
out that the chemo had suppressed my kidneys' ability to retain
magnesium and other electrolytes important for happily-firing neurons.
It was really scary, but temporary.
	My oncologist says this is rare, but not unheard of. Has anyone
else experienced this?

-- 
  Jeff Nanis				MIT Lincoln Lab
		An official opinion? Be real. 

  nanis@ll.mit.edu			Radars 'r' us.
Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
From: dougb@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Bank)
Subject: Re: Cancer scare
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:23:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.180711.24406@ll.mit.edu> nanis@ll.mit.edu (Jeff Nanis) writes:
>In article <AfAIrai00iUxM5SUxA@andrew.cmu.edu> tg2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tami Grudzinski) writes:
>>I believe that the scares are not all that uncommon. 
>
>	Unfortunately, you're right. Based on both my own experiences
>and stories I've heard at my cancer survivor support group at the Deaconness
>in Boston, every doctor's exam with less than immediate results, every
>unexplained fever or persistent pain is a potential scare.
>

As soon as you adopt the "better safe than sorry" attitude, scares must
happen - often.  I'm sure one of these months I'll get some ambiguous 
result.  Hopefully, I'll get the test repeated more someone decides to
start pumping me with chemo.

Scare are one thing, but how many people have unnecessary treatment
because of inaccurate test results?
From: Party@TPW.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
Subject: WElp
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 18:14:27 PST

Re: Son with leukemia
By: patm #0 @homer.ds.boeing.com USEnet      
 
> I am interested in talking to anyone who has or has a child with Leukemia.
> I am interested in behavioral, learning problems since the diagnosis of
> leukemia.
> To be more specific my son who is now 4, was diagnosed with leukemia when he
> was 3. And now that the hardest part is over for now we are having problems
> getting him to mind.
> Any suggestion or experiences would be appreciated.
> thanks

My father has leukemia and he is just as bad as ever, his attention span and
tollerance has gone way down.. We dont know why, its just like that..
                                             - Party .\\aster

Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
Subject: Re: Cancer scare
Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:33:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.180711.24406@ll.mit.edu> nanis@ll.mit.edu (Jeff Nanis) writes:
>In article <AfAIrai00iUxM5SUxA@andrew.cmu.edu> tg2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tami Grudzinski) writes:
>>I believe that the scares are not all that uncommon. 
>
>	Unfortunately, you're right. Based on both my own experiences
>and stories I've heard at my cancer survivor support group at the Deaconness
>in Boston, every doctor's exam with less than immediate results, every
>unexplained fever or persistent pain is a potential scare.

It's certainly true in my experience.  Although my prostate cancer is
currently being held in check, sooner or later it's going to appear
somewhere else.   Every new ache and pain sends me  off to the doctor
critter, who takes it all seriously.   I've had more X-rays, C/T scans,
MRI scans, etc. than I ever wanted.

A couple of months ago I reported in, complaining of irritability, sleep
disorder, short-term memory loss, inability to concentrate....  Sure
enough, he ordered a C/T scan of my brain.  I'm the only person in my
office with a certified normal brain.  :-)
-- 
Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear              ekman@netcom.com
Home for the Terminally Infirm, Redwood City, California
Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
From: sun@klaupacius.eng.yale.edu (Kang Sun)
Subject: Re: Chemotherapy questions
Organization: Yale University, Center for Systems Sciences
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:31:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.143912.21407@bcrka451.bnr.ca> mdm@bnr.ca (Diane MacMartin) writes:

> Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
> From: mdm@bnr.ca (Diane MacMartin)

> He will, however, have to undergo chemotherapy.  Is this an indication
> that he is not telling us everything, that it is more serious than he is
> saying?  Originally, he thought radiation would take care of it, but he
> said that because there are so many lymph nodes, surgery and radiation
> are not adequate.

Normally, there are three ways of treating a cancer: surgery,
radiation, and chemo therapy. Your Dad is right on that surgery and
radiation can only pin point a few places, and they are local
treatments; Chemo can go through everywhere in the body and get all
the cancer cells. But sometimes, the chemo is not very effective
though!

I was diagnosed of having cancers in my brain and spinal cords. I had
surgery in the brain, radiation both in the brain and in the spinal
cord. Now I am still having chemo therapy, just in case the cancer
spreaded to other places. My doctor told me that my only cure is
radiation. Chemo will help but it won't be the final cure. Chemo, at
least with my kind of cancer (meddularblastoma), worked in logorithm,
that is to say, every chemo treatment shrinks the tumor by half, if it
is effective: the first chemo shrink the tumor by half, the second
thrink it by a quarter (of the orinal size) and soon. Each chemo takes
about a month, and in my case I won't take the chemo so much times
that the cancer cells are small enough and won't grow again.

> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can make this time easier
> for him?  He has never, never since I can remember complained about any
> ailments, minor or major, that he has had; he is a very good patient and
> my mom is a GREAT caregiver.  Maybe if I could know what to expect, I
> could ease things somewhat.  For example, the hair falling out and
> nausea - are these always results of chemo?  Is there anything else? 
> Anything I should or could do?  Anything to help my mom?

Depending on the types of chemo, he needs to be hospitalized or as a
out-patient. In both cases, the first week after the chemo will be
hard to pass by. He will be tired, and doesn't want to eat thingd.  He
is easy to get angary. Hair-loss is a problem for most people. If he
minds it, buy him a wig. You can also joke about it and saying that he
is more handsome without the hair, if he doesn't mind. There is a
Chinese saysing "Corwed street does not grow grasses, and smart head
doesn't grow hairs". Maybe that will cheer him up!

In addition to let him eat his favorite meals, also let him do what he
wants. Sometime a patient wants to show that he is a normal person and
can do something. Don't humiliate him by saying that he is sick and
cannot do anything. Say something possitive!

Well, hope this helps! Have a nice holidy!!

-- Kang Sun