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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Sept 14, 2012 19:41:32 GMT 10
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Sept 14, 2012 19:48:27 GMT 10
Enough of that.
This is how engines should sound:
That's a V8, by the way. Why doesn't it sound like a V8? Aaaah, well - go google the difference between a cross-plane V8 and a flat-plane V8. The differences are very important.
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Post by angra on Sept 14, 2012 20:05:45 GMT 10
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Post by angra on Sept 14, 2012 20:17:14 GMT 10
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Post by angra on Sept 14, 2012 20:24:07 GMT 10
You realise there's a flat 6 V6 custom turbo Porsche 911 that produces 1,000 hp? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y089-z6e7dAI believe Porsche engineers got this horsepower from the forerunner to this engine in the 1970's. |
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Post by angra on Sept 14, 2012 20:38:34 GMT 10
Correction - the Porsche has a flat 6 not a V6.
And the most powerful piston engine is probably the Napier Sabre developing 3,500 hp (2,600 kW) in late-model prototypes. It was a 24-cylinder, liquid cooled, sleeve valve engine, and powered the Blackburn Firebrand, the Martin-Baker MB 3 prototype and the Hawker Fury.
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Post by angra on Sept 14, 2012 20:52:21 GMT 10
Sea Furies flew from HMAS Sydney (which I remember seeing in Sydney harbour as a boy) and acquitted themselves well in the Korean war. They even stood up to and outperformed MiG 15 jet fighters.
In 1961 a Burmese Fury shot down a Chinese Liberator bomber, and also in 1961, Cuban Hawker Sea Fury pilots Douglas Rudd Mole and Enrique Carreras Rojas, each shot down a CIA Douglas B-26C Invader operating in the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
So these planes have serious form.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Sept 15, 2012 7:21:17 GMT 10
"And the most powerful piston engine is probably the Napier Sabre" Hmm. Petrol engine, maybe. Google "marine diesel" and see what you can find :-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA96-CThere are videos of that on le tube as well. Tuners do some insane things with porsche 6's. Check out the Dauer 962, the 9ff company and Ruf. What astonishes me isn't that the engines don't just explode - but that the gearboxes can take it. The grand-daddy of them all is, of course, the 917. There's a video of some american chaps getting one started after shipping it from a collection in germany where it sat for decades. In can-am tune, I think they were getting 1500HP from that 5 liter flat 12 - and it was air cooled. You should definitely have a listen to gareth jones on speed :-) Gotta scoot ... |
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Sept 15, 2012 9:27:44 GMT 10
"But shit there's this - the Ferrari V12 ... Did they ever make tractors?"
Not being a tractor expert, I do recall one of the winemakers just up the barton highway a bit once chuckling about how somebody in the region had bought one of them ferrari tractors. I think the story is that they manufacture some sort of tractor under license - it _might_ be the carraro, but don't take my word on it.
Obviously, lamborghini started out making farm machinery, and I believe they still do. The story goes that ferrucio got jack of the poor service he was getting from ferrari and decided to build one of his own. Probably apocryphal.
I think the reality is such that there's such good money in commercial vehicles - trucks and tractors, basically - that I suspect anyone who's ever manufactured vehicles has probably had a go at one or the other, particularly at times just before, during or just after a war of some sort, when factories end up doing things that their owners might not have counted on.
And what male person doesn't secretly hanker for a unimog? I even know a girl who thinks they're cool, and was once highly amused that she could find one in a catalog on the mercedes benz web site.
Dropping a friend's sewing machine off for repairs after it had an unfortunate interaction with a cat, and gravity, and a floor, I was once introduced to the industrial history of the sewing machine!
The sewing machine repair man in belconnen is a walking history lesson. I was (genuinely) amazed to learn just how many modern japanese industrial empires started out manufacturing sewing machines. I even went home and googled it a bit (being basically skeptical) and he was pretty much right. Sewing machines. Whoda thunk it? I guess it's just precision machinery, something japan's done rather well at (damn you Deming!)
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Post by angra on Sept 15, 2012 9:50:30 GMT 10
MoC - I believe Boulton Paul who made aircraft in WW2 were originally a sewing machine manufacturer.
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Post by angra on Sept 15, 2012 10:03:36 GMT 10
Boulton Paul made the Defiant which looked like a Hurricane but had a turret-mounted heavy machine gun. It was a bit useless as a fighter as it had no forward-firing guns. But the Germans initially mistook it for a Hurricane, unaware of it's backward firing capabilities. Once a flight of Messerschmitts surprised a group of Defiants and dived on them from behind, only to be wiped out by their backward turret fire.
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Post by Sammy Jankis on Sept 15, 2012 17:47:13 GMT 10
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Post by angra on Sept 15, 2012 18:43:02 GMT 10
Talking of "anti-Catholic", the Newcastle Herald has a good report today, not picked up I believe by other Fairfax outlets. Damn those anti-Catholics. Can't they let our pedo priests rest in peace? "IT is the list that underscores a tragedy, a roll call of shame with crimes against children at its heart. It is the genesis of decades of suffering, the silent wrecking ball in our community behind too many broken families, too many lost and shattered lives and too much pain. It is the list the Catholic church tries to deny, minimise, consign to the past and dispatch as ‘‘ancient history’’, the ugly truth so cruelly dismissed by Australian Bishop Anthony Fisher in 2008 as people ‘‘dwelling crankily on old wounds’’. It is a list reflecting the church’s offences against children in the Hunter and Central Coast regions since the early 1950s. Some people are named, others can’t be for legal reasons. Some are dead but are included because documents and court decisions leave little or no doubt about offenders, or knowledge of offenders. It is a long list that includes more than 400 victims but, as Heal for Life chief executive Liz Mullinar said yesterday, it is the tip of the iceberg. ‘‘It’s an enormous problem and the Catholic church is in denial, but all churches are implicated because it’s the best alibi for a paedophile – he’s a good Christian,’’ Ms Mullinar said. " www.theherald.com.au/story/336209/poll-church-sex-abuse-victims-break-their-silence/?cs=303 |
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Sept 15, 2012 18:47:40 GMT 10
What we have here, is a problem: www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-15/anti-us-protests-hit-sydney/4263372What possible result are these berks hoping to achieve? This isn't america, and even if it was, nobody that they were likely to come across today had anything to do with the making of that film, so what's the point of having a go at innocent bystanders? If they want to shout and stomp, go do it in an open field and don't get in the face of people who had (and want) nothing to do with their grievance. And I'm not even going to get INTO how massive an overreaction this is. I don't need to, because there's so much to work with pointing out how misdirected it is. No doubt others will be typing furiously about the former. Whatever the outrage over that film, this sort of numb-skullery doesn't address it. It just pisses people off. Somebody organised this. It's been days since that film was released, there were no spontaneous demonstrations here. When a bunch of people turn up in one place at the same time, kitted out for trouble, then somebody organised it. And that person has just done australia's muslims a massive, massive disservice. They managed to gather together a bunch of idiots lacking perspective (or anything better to do), gee'd them up with some jingo and put their entire religious identity's political case backwards by 11 years and 4 days. Nice work, bozos. This isn't how to get ahead. It's very hard to argue with the bolts and bernardis of the world when a minority of total clowns go and provide lashings of precisely the sort of material they lust after. When a bunch of self-appointed worst-case-scenarios go and take their aggro out indiscriminately on random people, it makes it more difficult for people of sound mind to criticise the demagogues who like to paint all muslims with the same brush. Because it's the same damn behaviour. Some people really #%@$ed up today. This would be an excellent time for community leaders to work out what happened today and turn some people in. To do otherwise is not a winning strategy. To engage in this sort of crap is a guaranteed losing strategy. The NSW government will LOVE an excuse to build some more privately-run prisons. Unbelievable. Who could possibly believe this was a good idea? It also probably just pushed tony abbott's people-skills problems off the front page. SRC members could point to actual dead bodies now and NEWS can respond with "But ... MUSLIMS!" |
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Post by angra on Sept 15, 2012 18:52:39 GMT 10
For a bit of light relief, Google "Donkey Love" showing at the Sydney underground film festival. This is what gay marriage leads too! suff.com.au/2012/08/donkey-love/ |
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