FireHead

I make my own gears. I don't really like RDZ either, but it's mostly the R in RDZ I dont like. It seems to me that Dave Moore had a screaming deal on the gears awhile ago, maybe he still does.

I suppose that would be why it's not a good idea to post to forums via a Blackberry. You really don't a good shot a proof reading your posts out loud first. :biggrin:

I am curious about how you are testing these clutchs (not asshole curoious). I know how I have done it and how the rest of my industry does it, but I suspect it's out of your guys budget range. Other than broken/not broken testing a chassis dyno how you guys qualifying your components against a traditional lockout? Do you guys have any break away torque numbers or possibly fade numbers? What temperatures are you guys seeing at the steels? I am sure I have more nerdy questions, but for now I have to go get on an airplane. :geek:

I did alot of car stuff in high school, but I was an only child and neither of my parents were much into cars, so the few lifted trucks I bought with my own money wwere all I ever got to fiddle with. The four years of high school autoshop I took didn't help either as it was mostly vocational training oriented and did little to teach the theory behind anything. Mosto f the time the instructor had to spend most of his time babysitting kids as they wound up being tossed in that class if they couldn't make it anywhere else. I like to think one of the reason I am as popular as I am in my industry is one, because I will pretty much talk to anyone and two, is if a situation does not require prodessionalism or civilized behavior, then I am my own four year old. You have to remember, I am generally wearing a suit when I am doing the dykem thing these days. The most elaborate prank I can remember this evening is when I was working at the university getting my master's degree, I was employed as an adjunct faculty member and ran the vehicle research lab. There was kid that was sort of in a similair position that ran the composites lab, but was there for other reasons, mostly because he couldn't cut it in a few of the other engineering majors. The students from my major always had to use the composites lab and this kid always taught them thing incorrectly and/or ruined their projects with bad instruction. Anyway, he rode his 10 speed women's bike to school every day, one day after he had instructed a student to use polyester resin with unsized carbon fiber on a multi-million dollar car body, I decided I need to help the wanker embarass himself. So, I wuickly modeled up and programmed a a relatively realistic looking penis, knocked it out on the live tooled lathe, and replaced his bicycle seat with it. When the guy went to go home in the evening several other folks and myself staked out the bike rack outside the building and got to watch the guy sit there and stare at it for awhile and proceed to try to ride home standing on the pedals. Of course since his new seat was pointing straight up out of the seat post much higher than a normal seat he had to be very careful not to take it in the ass every time he pushed a pedal down. That still makes me giggle. :biggrin:

Well, now I am a little removed from the NASCAR business, but racing of some sort is where most of my good friends are. It just happens that there are a bunch of boys my age that get locked in the track every night just like the track support engineers (we can leave if we really need to, but we were ususally working) (also, this is essentially what my job was on race days when I wasn't doing rotating assembly design when I first got out of school). The guys that are my age are the gargage/pit crew and the drivers. To try andcut a long story down................here goes: I grew up with Kasey Kahne. I have known him since he was about 12 years old and we aren't best friends, but good enough that we call each other on the phone just to talk (not many of othermy guy friends don't really do that. they would just assume show up at your place with beer than calling to give any notice they were coming over for example). So, since I knew Kasey that was sort of an in with his group of friends at the track, that and alot of the other drivers thought he was kind of pretty to be in the pits dealing with his own car. My ex also wound up being really could friends with Kasey's significant other. It's a little weird since my ex became my ex shortly before I bailed out of SoCal. Anyways, Dale, Tony, Kasey, and I would spend spare time doing stupid stuff in our little free time we had after everything would wind down for the night and the pit entrance would lock down. Possibly you saw the picture of me, in my straw cowboy hat and headset in the NASCAR Today newpaper thing in the week after Daytona this year. It was a few pages in, and it was basically a color photo of Tony, tripping me, Dale, pushing, and Kasey pointing and laughling as I went head over heals into a kiddy swimming pool. Rental car drag racing at Fontucky was always alot of fun as well..................that's what I miss about my old job, not much else. If you look at any pictures of the pits from any major racing function that my old company had even the slightest to do with in the past 5 years or so, you will probably see a guy in a white straw cowboy (if it was sunny) standing somewhere in or around the telemetry towers or pit row during race time. So, I gues that was a longer story than I care to reread, but the upshot is that there are several personalities in many motorsports that I am actually really good friends with. Dale, I know well enogh to screw around with. I could call him and ask him about alot of things, but at the time itwouldn't have appropriate to ask about what he was doing. My info on this deal came from the technical director at RCR. There are atleast a few people in the industry I never got along with, but most of them were in the drag racing business. There is alot more penis measuring that goes on in that sport. :biggrin:

Word. :geek: I don't know if the tolerance of the bores is set right for the pistons either................. :ermm:

I have never done that, but I have stumbled upon the remnants of that once. Needless to say, I chose another stall. The dykem thing is really the only physical abuse I give anyone any more and my group of peers to fool around with has gotten smaller as I move upwards in the world. I really doubt my boss would find anything like any of this remotely funny, however he does like to hear the shop guys storys about the engineer that works for that they call Borat, personally I think the guy looks like a Brazilian version of Fez from That '70's Show. :biggrin: In high school football we seemed to have atleast a few people every week fall victim to the toilet paper roll in the stall being soaked over night in Icy Hot. I always thought that was the funniest thing ever, and I suspect that is only becasue someone only got me once with that and I am pretty sure they didn't use the right Icy Hot or didn't soak the roll long enough. :biggrin:

Cottoneyedjoe is who I was going to reccomend. I haven't seen him around here much any more. I didn't know the divorce was taking so much of his time.

Ahh, I see. That's I guess what I was thinking of when I said the locating pin thing, but I would think that see some form of wave or spring to that ring (read not flat). I think this part of the ring scheme is out of my realm of general knowledge. I don't think I ever held a piston setup like that in my hand before. :geek:

A Pro-X piston is a cast contruction piston made by Namura (not sure if that is the right name). A Pro-Lite psiton is of forged construction and made by Wiseco. Beyond that, if you do a search on the HQ on this topic, you will find more than you ever wanted to read about cast vs. forged pistons.

I am more a dykem thumb print to the forehead kind of guy myself...................maybe the back of an ear if I were upset at you for doing something sneaky. :biggrin:

How do you feel that racing engineers fit into this? I agree with you by the way. My job title hasn't had the word engineer in it for awhile, maybe that lets me get a way with more.........................., but probably not. :ermm:

I sm intrigued now, one of you guys ought to call Pro-X customer service and ask what they are for? Having parts left over out of something like that would make me nervous. :ermm:

Wow, what the hell is that? Disregard what I said about a circlip previously as what is in you picture is not what I was thinking on. It looks like the thing you have is some sort of secondary ring control to prevent the bottom ring from walking around (others use pins in the ring groove for this), but I am not sure what you have there. Maybe someone on here that is more informed than I knows what that's for. :ermm:

If it makes you feel any better (not that you need to), I deal with that BS everyday. To a certain extent it was not that bad in the racing industry because the time from initial concept to the door was very short, but again we were never supplying to the general public. Now, in my new position, every design, design change, or even an untimely nose twitch has to be thoroughly docuemented and run through various departments through out the world before it ever makes it to production certification and then finally the somewhat general public. IMO in this environment you have to have an even thicker skin as an engineer.

Atleast I am good for something around the HQ, even if it is inducing involuntary urine release. :biggrin:

I forwarded that to my old manual machine area manager (Mexican guy where I here most of the Mexican jokes from) and he hadn't heard that joke either. He thought it was pretty funny. :thumbsup:

I was in a meeting when I read this. It made me laugh out loud. :yelrotflmao: :yelrotflmao:

Typing it out on my Blackberry was equally as much fun, probably pointless, and I am real happy with myself for doing it. ::

I ma not sure who you are, but your friends are the ones who basically started and inflamed this whole thing..........

As Dave said, with respect to BansheeHQ, I am my own asshole, and I represent no one else. Nate would certainly be a great addition to the HQ, but after this thread, I really don't think much of him any more as a person, all business and technical issues aside.

I am pretty sure that is Nate. ........verbal thrashings. I like that, I may need to borrow that phrase from you. :biggrin:

I agree. However, the first set of cylinders that I bought in about 4 years wound up being a Twister product. The selling point for me was that the cooling scheme in the Twister cylinder block is better IMO than most other things out there. Hopefully I will still think that after I get the engine up in a dyno cell. :ermm:

All these shenanigans may not be over yet. He may move again, but this information is from the same source that didn't give me real good information on this topic before.