[DeTomaso] MANGUSTA ZF FLUID VOLUME / Dick Ruzzin

Dave Londry davel at emspace.com
Fri Sep 11 01:30:42 EDT 2009


Nice. (pint of Scotch please)
The French pinte was 952.1 mL so just about dead on 2 US pints.

Learning where to drink.
dave

Julian Kift wrote:
> There's rational to that Imperial pint; it being derived from an Imperial gallon which is 10 pounds of water at 62F and a pint is 1/8 a gallon or 20 fl oz
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> The irony of course is that it is now illegal to use the pint in the UK excepting as a drinkin' mans measure for milk, beer and cider. Where obviously 20 floz is more welcome than a teeny US pint would be ;>)
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> To prove that it is a drinkin' mans measure a Scottish pint (or Joug) of olde is equal to 3 Imperial pints.
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>> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
>> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:23:12 -0400
>> To: Dickruzzindesign at aol.com; Detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] MANGUSTA ZF FLUID VOLUME / Dick Ruzzin
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>> In a message dated 9/10/09 19 48 6, dickruzzindesign at aol.com writes:
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>>> J,
>>> That number as it was printed is wrong, or the second half is, so do not 
>>> use it.
>>> This is how it is printed, 2.1 liters is 3.5 pints.
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>>> A conversion to quarts shows that 2.1 liters is 4.44 pints.
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>> The book is actually right on both counts--and you can blame the damn 
>> Brits!
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>> After they came up with a perfectly good system of measurement in medieval 
>> days, based on hard, fast, rigid standards like the length of a king's foot, 
>> etc., and we adopted it, they up and went and changed everything on us.
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>> Remember that the Brits conjured up this notion of the "Imperial gallon" 
>> after we here in the USA had been happily using their old gallon for 
>> years--they threw that curve ball at us in 1824.
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>> (They were probably still pissed off about getting their butts handed to 
>> them in the war of 1812). 
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>> Well, a pint is defined as 1/8 of a gallon. So a British pint is 1/8 of 
>> an Imperial gallon, which is a bigger gallon than our gallon.
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>> 2.1 liters is 3.69 UK pints, or 4.43 US pints. Although the ZF manual 
>> doesn't specify, it's written by/for a European audience, using English pints.
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>> Going by liters is the safest thing to do--the Dash-2 manual calls for 3.5 
>> liters (approximately) with no associated pint value, while you say the 
>> Dash-1 manual (for inverted gearboxes) calls for 2.1 liters/3.5 pints. The 
>> Dash-0 manual (or more accurately, the dash-less manual) doesn't seem to have a 
>> value specified at all--just fill it until it reaches the appropriate mark 
>> on the dipstick.
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>> (The first-gen ZF used a dipstick as part of the vent assembly on the top; 
>> filling was to be done from the side. The second-generation gearbox as 
>> used in the Mangusta apparently did away with the dipstick in favor of a level 
>> hole in the back cover, and the inverted setup uses the old side fill hole 
>> as the level hole in the Pantera, etc.)
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>> Mike
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