Engine & Tranny problems 2

[Don Bradner]

Did you edit the parameters for your engine? The 475 doesn't exist in the
profiles, and both HP and torque are calculated based on the engine profile - It
sounds like you are using the 500.

Don Bradner
90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
Posting on the road by satellite from
Lincoln City, Oregon
Headed north


On 4/30/2007 at 2:55 PM Leroy Eckert wrote:

>Hey Greg:
>I just got back from the largest redneck party in the universe that is
>Talladega.
> I have a lot of raw data that I collected on the trip that I will be
>posting as soon as I can organize it into a chart. Hopefully tonight. I
>even got to pull some bunny hills in the Birmingham area.
>For a while I have known that Alarmstat value artificially pushes water
>temp, tranny temp, retarder temp and engine oil temps higher.
>As well, I have always thought the fan override robs power and have always
>used fan override as you do, to cool the components. I may be rethinking
>that now. One very interesting piece of data that I collected is this.
>In all three configurations, Alarmsat controlled, chassis a/c on(fan at
>1800rpm) and fan override on(1800 RPM, chassis a/c off and out of the
>system) , I was able to pull 501HP and 1447FtLbs of torque at 100%
>throttle, engine load 100%. Those are the top numbers. Boost was 22psi.
>These numbers occurred at about 1900 rpm. It is hard to drive the bus and
>write but these numbers are very close.
>
>My analog gauges are closer than one could have imagined.