Small block gas mileage DD magnum/LA ?
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Math was always my best subject,
with geometry a close second.
Algebra helped me find numbers I never knew existed. I was a bit baffled when they introduced it in school, but I was a fast learner.
All three of those helped me, in 1998, design an 11.3 compression ratio engine, when the speed shops said it would detonate itself to smithereens.
They said 9.5 was the ceiling.
They were, of course, wrong.
And today, everybody knows how to do it.
Had I listened to them in 1998, I would still be driving the same lazy-dog engine.
But if it's not a dig on me;
absolutely yes it is all in the calculators.
If we didn't have calculators, we'd still be living in the dark ages.[/QUOTE]
Engines/car performance doesn’t always do what the calcs say there going to do. The calcs should get you really really close to balls dead on accurate. But that is not always the case. Calcs are extremely useful. Just not law. Many/most people think it is because there numbers, that are an absolute definitive, a no argument more than rock solid answer. What the problem is, is what happens after the calculations are run and what the actual physical item does.
This is way I say that some people are in the calculator to much. An excellent example is when I have (or anyone really) dyno an engine, showy he numbers to a calculator head Genius! and they come up with a time slip that you should run..... but never take into consideration anything other than the engine itself. If you know Scientist! They’re always right! Why? Because they use the calculator!
