[OT^2] Re: Our fine educational system (was: Login on VMS)

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Sep 29 12:17:18 2000

> Peter Joules wrote on 9/27/00 4:28 pm:
>
> >> I think I managed to hit
> >100+MPH on a few occasions.
> >>
> >> WHEEEEEEE!!
> >
> >I thought all Americans drove
> >at no more than the 50?
> >limit ;-)
> >
> >--
> >Regards
> >Pete
> >
> not really. My friends and I went out mischiefing one
> evening.l didn't drive so my friend took us. We hit 130 mph
> on the local highway.

Ok, until recently (every suspension component needs replacing)
my '86 Quattro was pretty fast... on a long flat section of
I-64 in southern Indiana, I had it up to 140mph. I think the
car had more to give, but my cajones max out at 140.

And just to get this back on topic, stock, this car won't go
that fast, but I modified the engine controller, a 6805-based
embedded processor, by customizing the ROM to not dump the turbo's
boost out the wastegate as soon (stock, boost maxes out at 1.3bar,
but mine makes it up to 1.8bar), and by adding a bit more fuel
via the fuel frequency valve to keep from putting holes in the
tops of the pistons.

Since the engine controller, like the car, was built in 1986,
it vaguely qualifies as being over 10 years old.

Stomp on that accelerator, then:
one-mississippi, two mississippi, Whoosh!

-doug q
Received on Fri Sep 29 2000 - 12:17:18 BST