[DeTomaso] Check this out

[Kirby Schrader]

A guy at work looked at it, smiled and pulled out a mechanical  
engineer's book from 1941.

There on the page in one of the chapters was the same setup.

:-)

Nothing new.


On 11 Jul 2007, at 4:45 PM, Tomas Gunnarsson wrote:

> This was written a lot about in Swedish technical magaazines a few  
> years ago. At that time it was a compressed air drive only IIRC.  
> Lots of stuff is clearly bull. I looked at the animation where a  
> big fuss is made about spending 70 degrees out of 360 at TDC (which  
> is also a weird thing, TDC is pretty instantaneous, right?). What  
> good is that if the connecting rod geometry gives almost zero  
> torque during that time? There's no free ride...
>
> Tomas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kirby Schrader" <kirby.schrader at gmail.com>
> To: <unlisted-recipients:>; <no To-header on input>
> Sent: den 10 juli 2007 13:54
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Check this out
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>> And have a look at that torque curve!!
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