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    Woops! Wrong link!
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    You still seem to be saying it's eyes are too close together, so I guess you just don't get it 🤷‍♂️
  3. danny_galaga
    Some footage. Very tragic. Is that an engine on fire on the port side?
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    3 pob. https://www.whathifi.com/hi-fi/vinyl/vinyl-records-will-be-around-forever-the-tiny-vinyl-founders-on-the-black-discs-enduring-appeal
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    Yes, was a real eye opener for me years ago when I first did my ppl training. Did the two hours basic IFR. When the instructor gives you the frosted glasses and starts doing steep turns and climbs and descents for several minutes. Then it's "what attitude are we now?" "We are in a steep left turn" Then it's off with the glasses and damned if we aren't flying straight and level 😲 Years later, and now I've gone the ultralight route with ra-aus, and unless I missed it somehow, they don't seem to do that demonstration. I think there's no better way to tell you to stay out of the clouds than that one lesson.
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    It's a quad cam engine. There was a short animation on Sesame Street when I was growing up. Two kids are drawing. The first kid draws the usual stick figure of a person. The second kid draws the Mona Lisa. The first kid says "her eyes are too close together".
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    That can't be right, nev says he's the only one left in the world that can restore and renovate engines 😄
  8. danny_galaga
    That's great, but you realise my beautiful Lamborghini engine block is not the only engine to not be perfect, right? And, since Lamborghini produced that engine for 50 years with just incremental refinements, I think it can't have been too bad a design. Not bad for the first engine they ever built 🤷‍♂️
  9. danny_galaga
    Introducing the "Neville' 😀
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    What are you waiting for? The best sports car the world has ever seen is locked up in your head! You'll be the most revered auto engineer in history and no one will ever be able to fault your wonderful chassis, body and engine design. And all of us here can one day say 'we knew that guy when he only talked about being the best designer in the world. Then one day he proved it, and there was no doubt. He really was the best engineer that ever was, and ever will be' 😇
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    The Muira might be the second model. It's a beauty. The first I think was the 350 gtv , which wasn't nearly as elegant. I'm sure they learnt a lot building the first design. Sounds like you should design a sports car. You seem to know how it's done 😇 Highest price paid for a Muira. There was a low point with a lot of classic cars at one stage. I remember Nicholas Cage bought an ex Shah of Iran Muira for maybe $200,000 around 20 years ago. Anything from the Shah would have virtually no miles in it, so a good catch 🙂 https://www.hagerty.com/media/market-trends/hagerty-insider/4-9m-lamborghini-is-the-most-expensive-miura-ever-sold/
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    Mid engine, behind the driver. V12. One casting doesn't automatically mean the gearbox shares the oil. It makes for a more compact and sturdy structure. Funny you mention reliability. Ferruccio Lamborghini had a successful tractor factory. Successful enough he bought a Ferrari. But it kept breaking down, so he asked his engineers if they could make something more reliable 😇
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    To be fair, the main reciprocating part that might let go in a car would be a con rod.
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    One of the coolest car engine blocks would have to be the Lamborghini Miura. It was built like a motorbike engine- engine block, gearbox and diff cast in one piece.
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    Still, testing to destruction would glean a while bunch of info above individual calculations. For instance, say calculations tell you part A might break. Actually running a prototype until part A breaks might show that breaking that impacts parts B and C.
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    This is what went through my head when he said it. But those are rockers pushing on the valve stems. I haven't looked at the Merlin, whether it has overhead cams driving rockers or cams on valves. Unlimited hydroplanes used Merlin's and Packard's until the 1970s as well. Would be interesting to see what they did to boost performance. Miss Bardahl for instance ran at 3000 hp 😲
  17. danny_galaga
    Wouldn't be surprised if some of those racing guys have made roller followers or equivalent for their engines
  18. danny_galaga
    There are some newly manufactured parts. If you look at the link I posted, you'll see that pistons, rings and even three differently profiled camshafts are being manufactured. But clearly not fuel pumps as per my original post 😄
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    https://roushaviation.com/parts-inventory/
  20. danny_galaga
    Totally agree..like I say, you can't get much breezier than an X mount on a gymbal 😇
  21. danny_galaga
    I guess what I'm saying is that with the gimbal mount, if you are on a track where the sun is beating down on the screen, you can tilt it a few degrees down until the sun or your track has moved. It's all academic for me of course, test flying means there's no point even using a tablet. And when I'm done, I still haven't done my navs anyway 😄
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    There's heaps of options. I'm mostly referring to the gymbal part. What I have attached to that is the X type cradle that just grips the tablet on the sides. Virtually every part is getting free air flow.
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    I like the Ram ball joint mount because you can angle it how you want and if outside light changes (sun glare etc) you can just retilt it to suit the moment. Also if a passenger is helping they can tilt it towards them if they need
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    Dunno. You can't edit anything here after 15 minutes, so that could be tricky
  25. danny_galaga
    Got it.
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