AA Recovery damaged car

[Stuart]

ok, i'll give you that. given the fact that the k series engines simply weren't developed enough for production, and then they decided to use a tiny amount of coolant compared to all their rivals, means a std one is iffy, but a well modified one with a really bad map is bound to eat itself.

The fact I could heat it detonating though 3 walls and the fools doing a calibration lesson didnt notice was more annoying.

[mowgli]

there is an awful lot to this engine mapping... the carb/dizzy advance retard setup was a product of several decades & 2 world wars worth of development

do you ever read dave walkers column in PPC??? i was reading an old one the other night where an expensively mapped race car was put on his rollers & checked.. he found out that it had the same exact ignition setting, no matter what engine speed, or throttle setting was checked... then his opinions on simply relying purely on 'on the road' mapping are suitable grumpy too.

[Stuart]

This was in an engine calibration lecture/practical session that I had taught the tutor the week before .

I have read most of daves stuff, along with many more months of work with far more qualified and experienced folks in the oem industry
On road calibrate for 80% of the setup and then the rest in a cold cell and rollers.

[mowgli]

This was in an engine calibration lecture/practical session that I had taught the tutor the week before .

surely they would teach basic mapping on a standard engine, so they can get repeatable results & when it blows, they can get one from the scrappy

[Stuart]

Calibration for **** sake.

It was what the uni had to hand when we needed to build an engine.