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I had a piss poor experience with weber specs tbh

what if she asks difficult questions like "why do none of these guys actually have old cars"

A GIRL!!?!?

While I do have several operators who have policies of never reusing decanted avgas, - resulting in enough to run my lawnmower for a trillion years - it really really was just a hypothetical question

yeah good point - the rotax would probably throw a fit if you started giving it the sort of throttle input that a car gets also generally these EFI aircraft engines have a constant speed prop attached, so even if it did ran sub-optimally for a few seconds while it got it's EGT feedback, the prop would just fine out to keep the RPM constant, so you'd see a decrease in MAP instead and have a mathematical decrease in airspeed but you probably wouldn't even feel it. same setup in a car and there'd be bogging down, RPM decay etc moral of the story is carbys rule

Come to think of it we look after a couple of machines with fuel injected rotax engines that don't have manual mixture adjustment, can run avgas, and don't have o2 sensors... They must be able to compensate for altitude somehow and I can't imagine they do it without some kind of feedback. The ecu is definitely not connected to the altimeter

@Roman it genuinely is a question of pure academic curiosity

Ok so my takeaway here is that a wideband is more of a tuning aid than anything else? I guess cars trundle around in open loop from time to time anyway. Still I'm curious to know the answer from a hypothetical point of view - can an ecu extrapolate meaningful feedback with an EGT sensor rather than o2

I was trying to see if it were feasible to have something akin to wideband feedback, without having an actual wideband sensor, for avgas reasons

more importantly how is the escargot going

With enough inputs (air & fuel flows, map and EGT for a start) could an ecu do away with an o2 sensor but still run closed loop?

I'm not in. My day sucked and I'd love to complain in person but I've started feeling like shit so just going to crash out. fuck a burger would be so good right now though

I'm in I hope Haven't asked the wife

WPC collects 400l or more for free, so presumably a truck service centre wouldn't care if you chucked yours in their dump. I've got a 995l hopper and all the locals make the most of it because I'm community minded/utterly powerless to stop them

anybody else got an old car legal? fuck no lol

is it time lads?

I'll also go one step even more contentious and say new 'wrong' oil is better than old 'right' oil but I think we're all living in fear of a lubricant foamer showing up in this thread

had to brag about it here because nobody at work cares and I dare not tell my wife

Bought a hoist, I'll do it myself (if I ever get around to installing it)

I'd do it in a heartbeat

Poor old triumph failed it's wof for underbody rust, I had a quick look and didn't see anything too terminal except around some seams. Is there any gc in northland who does the whole underbody sandblast/treat/epoxy shebang?

right, if im not going to oakura tomorrow I'll drop in

did it go ahead in the end? or all snotted by the weather

Then perhaps a guy I know might bring his gt6

if we say that hypothetically the warrant status of vehicles at this show isn't a matter of keen scrutiny, just saying, I mean as a moot point of argument for the sole purpose of fostering robust debate