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From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Subject: Re: Quick radar question about traffic ticket
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 18:56:04 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

harsh@inetnode.austin.ibm.com (Harsh Sharma) writes:


> How do the cops driving in the opposite direction (on the other side of
> the freeway) calculate the speed of the car? Do they subtract their car's
> speed from the reading they get? Does the radar take care of that by itself?
> What is the error in that?

The radar does the calculation itself.  The radar antenna gets two 
signals.  One is the reflection from the roadway and foliage.  This 
represents the patrol car's ground speed.  The second signal is the 
SUM of speeds of the patrol and victim car.  The radar unit has a
frequency agile filter that peels out the ground speed and routes it
to a different counter.  The victim speed is simply the sum speed minus
the ground speed.

(Disclaimer:  I've not yet gotten my hands on a current production Kustom
unit)  The really amazing thing is all this is done in discrete logic in
all the units I've played with to date.  No microprocessor.  The modern
way to do this would be to use a DSP and do a FFT on the doppler
to separate out the speed components.

Kustom Signals radars are the cadillacs of the breed.  The MPH unit I'm
currently evaluating is the mongrel dog.  I've seldom if ever gotten
a Kustom to give me a reading I thought to be erroneous; eg, not matching
up with my visual estimate of the vehicle speed.  The MPH is quite easy
to fool.  A common error happens when I'm in the left lane shooting 
oncoming traffic and someone passes me 20 mph or so faster.  Suddenly
the unit sees the difference between my speed and his as the new
"ground speed" and computes the victim speed as the difference between
that difference speed and the sum speed of my car and the victim.  
That is quite a large number.  If I'm doing 50 mph, the target is doing
50 and someone passes me at 70, the "patrol car" speed suddenly becomes
(70-50 = 20) 20 mph while the victim speed is (50+50 - 20 = 80) 80 mph.
Maybe this is why the pigs love the MPH unit.

John
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Newsgroups: rec.autos,rec.autos.driving
From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: How To Drive the RIGHT way!
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:57:09 GMT


When trying to make a right turn into traffic, wait until the traffic in
the lane you want to be in is 50 feet away, then pull out, and accelerate
to a speed about 20% slower than (formerly) prevailing traffic, instead of
waiting for the car or two to pass first.

	-Kenny

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Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: mshar@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Mshar)
Subject: AUTOMATICS CAN BE NICE! (Was Re: FLAME! Only a Manual!)
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 04:53:27 GMT

>> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>>
>>
>>[Lots of shit deleted]
>>
>>
>>I drive that PONTIAC in a civilized way in traffic, but I wind up that 
>>tach when alone on twisty mountain and country roads, and have some
>>wonderful thrills! For me, a car is not a car if it resembles a toaster
>>in looks and function. I have owned automatics and econoboxes but there
>>was something missing. Would you buy a television set if you didn't like
>>the picture or the sound? Of course not! 

Obviously this person has not owned a real automatic.

I am the proud owner of a 1981 Monte Carlo with a Turbo-Hydramatic 350
automatic. The transmission was built for me by a friend who works in trans
shop. Best $150.00 deal I ever made. Hell, it`s the best transmission I
have ever owned.

Anyway, the thing shifts rock hard. If this person had ever driven a
car with a tranny like mine, he would not bitch about automatics. 

There is nothing like the feeling of flooring it right off the line, letting
the car get up to around 45-50 mph, shifting into second, and feeling the
transmission _instantly_ shift into second gear as the tires break lose for
just that split second. When you can shift a manual from first to second in
less than a quarter of a second, then maybe you will understand. I get more
compliments on this automatic`s operation than any stickshift I have ever
driven.

Don`t get me wrong, I like sticks too. But everyone has their preferences,
so don`t knock it if you have never really had the chance to feel the best.

IMHO as always...

Mike
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From: bhhardy@cs.utk.edu (Barbara Hardy)
Newsgroups: rec.autos,rec.autos.tech
Subject: Noise when turning left -- mitigates when applying brake. Huh?
Followup-To: rec.autos
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:48:10 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Distribution: na


I have an 85 Dodge Omni/2.2L front wheel drive, 112K miles.

When driving straight ahead, the engine noise is a little louder than
it ought to be. This is in comparison to the engine noise when I am
turning left. It feels quite good then, no tension. As I bring the car
back to straight ahead, the noise increase. It gets positvely
annoyingly and scarily loud when I turn to the right, and the noise
"feels" more "tense."

I was driving on many miles on winding road yesterday, and I got to
experiment a little with it. Turns out that when I apply the brakes,
the noise drops quite noticebly (sp)! 

Any clues as to what this could be?


Barbara Hardy

bhhardy@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu
Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik)
Subject: Re: AUTOMATICS CAN BE NICE! (Was Re: FLAME
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 16:26:52 GMT

In article E0z@mentor.cc.purdue.edu, mshar@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Mshar) writes:
>> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>>>I wrote:
>
>>>I am the proud owner of a 1981 Monte Carlo with a Turbo-Hydramatic 350
>>>automatic. The transmission was built for me by a friend who works in trans
>>>shop. Best $150.00 deal I ever made. Hell, it`s the best transmission I
>>>have ever owned.
>>>
>>>Anyway, the thing shifts rock hard. If this person had ever driven a
>>>car with a tranny like mine, he would not bitch about automatics. 
>>>
>>>There is nothing like the feeling of flooring it right off the line, letting
>>>the car get up to around 45-50 mph, shifting into second, and feeling the
>>>transmission _instantly_ shift into second gear as the tires break lose for
>>>just that split second. When you can shift a manual from first to second in
>>>less than a quarter of a second, then maybe you will understand. I get more
>>>compliments on this automatic`s operation than any stickshift I have ever
>>>driven.
>>>
>>>Don`t get me wrong, I like sticks too. But everyone has their preferences,
>>>so don`t knock it if you have never really had the chance to feel the best.
>>
>>Don't get me wrong either. I just prefer sticks. Hope you did something
>>with that mushy/wobbly stock suspension when you modified that mushy/wobbly 
>>slushbox to your taste. At least your car is RWD! :+)
>>
>
>Yes, the back-end is plenty stiff. Don`t you worry, some of us know what we
>are doing. Actually, the back end was stiff when I got the car. It does
>need new shocks.

Good thing.

>Actually, the car handles fairly decent for its size. It is anything but a
>cushy ride, I can tell you that. With a little work on the front end, this
>chasis could be an excellent candidate for a street machine. Just gotta get
>the money to build it up, first!

I had an '81 Buick Century. It handled like a yacht and blew around in
crosswinds. Goog thing your car(based on the same platform) sits better
on the road than that thing(no rear swaybar and abused suspension) did.

>And BTW, a TH350 is NOT a mushy, wobbly, slushbox. Any tranny that can
>survive for 17 years behind a 350 (of which 3 of those years it was behind
>a BUILT 350) in the stock configuration is not `slushy`. Ford autos, on the
>other hand....   :-)

OK, don't laugh now. The best-performing automatic that I have ever owned
was the modified POWERGLIDE(2-speed) in my '70 Monte Carlo 350 with a
2-barrel(great low-end torque) and a set of headers/low restriction
exhaust. Because of this strong-shifting, bulletproof automatic, I
used to out-accelerate manual CAMAROS because the guys didn't know
how to launch their cars(they would just spin their wheels) or speed-
shift. That old Monte would just stay in first up to 75 Mph or until I
let up on the gas. When I would let up, it would immediately hit second
and I'd get back into the meaty part of the power curve! 

Torque Monger
From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: Corvette Turbo
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:29:59 GMT
Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA

>In article <1992Nov7.070750.10546@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth) writes:
>>	Do Corvette's come in Turbo form? I was wondering if I could
>>get a Corvette Turbo. Have they ever come with a Turbo?
>
In article <BxDpLn.3nJ@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> mshar@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Mshar) writes:
>Yes. It was called the Corvette Calloway(sp?). It was basically the base
>350 engine with twin turbochargers on it. Nice idea.
>
>BUT
>
>In head to head tests, the ZR1 was faster, at least according to the car
>magazine I was reading (cannot remember which one it was). The ZR1 had a
>better 1/4, 0-60, and top speed. 
>
   And just to add to the flame-bait, has ANYONE ever seen a
   published road test of a Calloway where it DIDN'T gulp a valve,
   blow a turbo, or otherwise malfunction?
From: jreiser@scott.skidmore.edu (Jason Reiser... Asleep)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: NEW MBZ 190E PRICES
Date: 30 Oct 92 06:32:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: scott.1992Oct30.063238.29893
Distribution: usa
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY

james@koko.csustan.edu (Jonas Grumpy) writes:
> I just saw a commercial that adveritesed a new 190e for 14,938!!!
> This is a drop of over 13,000 dollars if I'm not mistaken. Did I see a
> figure for down payment or what?? If this is true that means you
> can now buy a mercedes for the price of a hyundai!!
> 
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Though I don't know for sure, it sounds like the above figure is
probably the amount you would pay, in total, over the term of a lease.
Mercedes leases tend to have fairly high buy backs, so you don't pay
much to use the car for a few years...

Anyone who can verify this (or shoot me down with the facts) please do
so...

				- Jason
jreiser@scott.skidmore.edu
From: johns@hp-ptp.ptp.hp.com (John Schubert)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:29:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Underdrive pullys - Any experiences?
Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca.
Newsgroups: rec.autos


I have been using an undersized pulley for serveral years on my Rx7.
Accessories, including the water pump are driven at 1:1 with the stock pulley.
The main purpose was to slow down the water pump which cavitates at something
like 6800 rpm. (redline of a modified engine is 8500...) Since 7000 to 7500
rpm is a common occurance during autocrossing, this seem like a reasonable
thing to do. I have never had any problems with the battery and appear to
have longer water pump life since changing pullies.

# From george@mech.seas.upenn.edu Fri Nov  6 13:53:17 1992

# any drag racers or autocrossers out there try electrically
# disconnecting the alternator?
With newer cars that have electronic ignition and EFI, have you considered
the effect of lower voltage on the performance of the car? Would you gain
more by removing the load of the alternator then you would loose with a lower
primary voltage to the ignition? IMHO it's not worth the bother, leave the
belt on....
# 
# --
#   /   george jefferson

===================================

# From yogi@coombs.anu.edu.au Fri Nov  6 17:30:50 1992

# After trying them in an SCCA Solo ][ ESP Mustang for a while, I 
# gave up. It was always having to be push started and it wouldn't idle to
# well (it never idled to well anyway) and the battery died irrecoverably once.
# I don't think it was worth the hassle. This car was only used for competing, BTW
I don't see the connection between push starting, bad idle and an undersize
pulley...   Assuming the car was trailered, since you said "the car was only
used for competing", then the real fault may have been the battery. Even an
standard pulley may have not allowed sufficant power to drive the ignition, EFI
etc.   Maybe a trickle charger on the battery between events would have been
a solution.  (driving to the events would work too...)
# 
# Michael Hanslip.

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From: harsh@inetnode.austin.ibm.com (Harsh Sharma)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: Quick radar question about traffic ticket
Summary: RED SPORTS CAR
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:34:20 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <1992Nov4.162441.26167@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> mental@cntrol.enet.dec.com () writes:
>	And I suppose if they're all going fast, the radar selects the RED
>	car. 8^)
>
>	/ken
>

 Especially if it's a sports car. I have just bought myself a sports car
 and am very cautious about not being caught. I bought a passport 3200 and
 so far it has not let me down.

 How do the cops driving in the opposite direction (on the other side of
 the freeway) calculate the speed of the car? Do they subtract their car's
 speed from the reading they get? Does the radar take care of that by itself?
 What is the error in that?

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Newsgroups: rec.autos,rec.autos.tech
From: jbii@HDFS1.acd.com ( John O. Bell II )
Subject: Re: Saturn Polymer Side Panels - How tough ??
Summary: Get your clue now while it's free 
Keywords: unemployment work clue get real
Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:55:43 GMT

   I can't believe someone from my alma mater would go and make a fool
out of himself like that. The fact is, it's tough for EVERYONE out there
right now, whether you are from Purdue/U of I/insert your school here.
I graduated from the U of I in 1990 with a B.S. in Aero Engineering. Of
the 276 people who graduated in my department, _one_ had a job by February
of next year. And don't give me grief about how we all should have gone
to grad school; more people wanting in = more competition = less chance
of you getting in. I had a 4.6/5.0 GPA and had worked on several in-house
projects with grad students and professors, and I got rejected. As a matter
of fact, if it weren't for my B.S. CS degree, I wouldn't have a job right
now (thank god for double majors!).

   You people running this thread can do yourselves and all of us a big
favor by pulling your head out of your ass and sticking it in a book.
Remember: everyone getting laid off next year with their degrees and
3 to 5 years of job experience will be waiting for you.

Have a nice day... now get to work.
From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: Car Insurance Companies
Date: 13 Nov 92 20:59:37 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.

In article <Bxo546.81o@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rg9538@ehsn12.cen.uiuc.edu (Ronald E Garnett) writes:
>2 out of the last three agents I have tried have quoted $40-$60 below what the premium ended up being.  They both took my check, gave me a binder, but when the
>letter cam from headquarters, I still owed more.  In both cases, the agents had
>given me the married rate eben though I made it very clear that I was SINGLE andintended on remaining that way for a while!

Standard agent crap... I kept receiving calls asking me to verify what was
on the insurance form. My agent had pretty much prettyprinted some of 
the less desirable aspects of my driving details (typically distance
driven to work...). The premium diff was not much but was very irritating.

This seems to be standard practice here.

Spiros



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Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: wcl@pei.com (Wesley Lee,PEI,166,(408)274-7468)
Subject: Re: Speeding ticket - FAQ
Reply-To: wcl@pei.com
Organization: Protocol Engines Inc., Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:35:22 GMT

In article 96876@netnews.upenn.edu, sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:
>    [stuff deleted]
> 
> 
>   BTW, if  I go to court, should I mention that the accuracy of car
>   speedometer is about +-10%, which gives me 20% tolerance and 
>   reduces my speed to 55mph.
> 

If you go to court, DON'T use this argument.  This is plain bad arithmetic.
+/- 10% of 68mph is about 61 to 75mph.  Besides, I believe, speedometers
are more accurate than this.

If you don't have too many traffic tickets and don't mind wasting a day, go to
traffic school.  This way you get the ticket removed from record.  You still have
to pay the fine (at least in my county), but you car ins. rates won't be 
impacted.

-WCL



From: thatchh@hplsla.hp.com (Thatch Harvey)
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:54:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Mazda Protege: Problem with engaging 1st and rev. gear.
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
Newsgroups: rec.autos



   We have had 2 626's with the same problem, especially in reverse. Sometimes
putting the trans in 2nd briefly will help 1st. Sometimes putting it in 1st
will help reverse. If you are on an incline at all, let it roll as you engage
first.  I guess this one really is one where "they all do it".

            Thatch Harvey
From: kjell@midab.se (Kjell Kristiansson)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: Forgetting to Turn Off Headlights
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:54:00 GMT
Organization: Midab Data AB, Sweden

silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) writes:
>would turn your lights off when the ignition is turned off, but allow you
>to force them to go back on again, would provide the best of both worlds.

Here in Sweden we been using DRL for many years now. Normal behavior
of the DRL system in our cars is like this:

- off - headligths go on when altenator generates power. (In older
        cars the votage to the lamps was redused to save the bulbs)
- on  - headlights always on. If any door is opend a buzzer sounds 
		(conected to the interior light)
- park- parking (position) lights always on, no buzzer
			   
This works very good. The only problem is that we can not turn the headlight
of when driving (but why should one). That I still call it a problem is that
when driving in sothern Europe (France, Italy and Spain) "everybody" tells
you that your lights are on and having full headlights flashing in your
eyes every minute or two is annoying. I therefore mostly add a manuall
switch too.

On my -89 Pontiac GP (yes I have one in Sweden) the taillights go on
when I turn on the ignition, headlights go on when I shift to drive or
reverse.

Kjell K
Newsgroups: rec.autos
From: bradley@mdd.comm.mot.com (Michael Bradley)
Subject: Re: Porsche 356 carrera?
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 00:12:18 GMT

In article <420013@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates) writes:
>
> hello there.  for enjoyable reading on the CARRERA, see European Car 
> magazine, DEC 91 which is devoted to the 356 enthusiast.  An article
> and history of the CARRERA starts on page 59.  Fine cars. I own a restored
> 65 356SC coupe, but the CARRERA engine is definitely highly desireable.
>
> See you just then.
>
>
Maybe its been mentioned before but the latest issue of Excellence has a nice 
356 Carrera article



Newsgroups: rec.autos,rec.autos.driving
From: jimb@access.digex.com (Jim Brooking)
Subject: Re: How To Drive the RIGHT way!
Organization: National Commitee to Keep Slower Traffic Right
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:10:13 GMT

Hey, doesn't the Maryland Motor Vehicle Operator's Handbook
have copyrights or something?  You could get into big trouble
trying to pass that stuff off as your own.

0.5 8^)

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From: lott@egr.msu.edu (Jennifer Lott)
Subject: What is a transfer case (for Chevy S10 Blazer, 2.8L)
Organization: Division of Engineering Research
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 13:33:08 GMT

I'm posting this for a friend so don't reply to me.  Her address is at the 
bottom of the screen.  Thanks.


I took my blazer in for an oil change and I was told that the fluid in the 
transfer case needed to be replaced along with the differential fluid.  Is 
this easy enough to do at home or should it be done by an experienced 
mechanic?  Why does this need to be done?  

Any information you could give me would be appreciated.  My address is below.

Thanks

Kim Crozier
crozier@frith.egr.msu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.autos