[DeTomaso] aircar

[Matt]

Neither is the electric motor or internal combustion motor. Necessity truly is the motivator for refinement and commercial gain.
But let's be real, this ones got a ways to go! Thanks for sharing.
Matt
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:10:42 -0500
From: Kirby Schrader <kirby.schrader at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Check this out
To: Tomas Gunnarsson <guson at home.se>
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
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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
>
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>>
>> And have a look at that torque curve!!
>>
>>
>> http://www.theaircar.com/