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The odds are pretty good. Lots of manufacturers use Nippon Denso alternators. I think only some models of Honda turn the other direction. The differences are in size (amp rating) and mounting configuration.

I like how you go about doing things. Keep up the good work. :cheers: Dan

Or put 12V on the wire leading to the brake and look for brake lights. If you do this with a fuse in the line, whether it blows or not will tell you if there's a wiring fault.

Thanks. And here I've been calling them the square-ular Esprits and the roundy ones. Did you get to the Peterson museum last year when they had the cars of the Italian design houses? Some gorgeous cars there......

If you decide to use stainless steel tubing, remember that it work-hardens like crazy. This means that you need to cut it with a hacksaw or bandsaw rather than use a cutoff tool. If you *do* use a cutoff tool, you can still flare it without cracking if you torch anneal it by taking it to cherry red and allowing it to air cool. Dan Nice build.

I admit I have a soft spot for Esprits, though I've never ridden in one. so what's a G-car?

I was talking to P J O'Rourke and mentioned that I have a Westfield. I was impressed that he is familiar with them. So I guess he actually *is* a car guy. I got him to sign my copy of "Driving Like Crazy"

To me it's not so much what is legal, but rather what has significant safety merit. This is why I mounted an LED strip to my roll bar. http://www.carbuildersolutions.com/uk/28-led-high-level-brake-light Of course if your car is mostly for the track, brake lights are not so useful.

Yea verily. Westfields use both depending on engine. My Mazda uses a mechanical switch on the pedal, but some others use a pressure switch. To further complicate the build, the manual described installing a pressure switch but the hardware provided was for a mechanical switch. I believe the auto industry as a whole is switching to the mechanical type. (pun intended).

Hmmm... there would be a different response to a manifold vacuum leak if the ECU used the Mass Air Flow sensor, or if it only used throttle position and manifold pressure.

Wow! What vehicle is that actually intended for?

Different ECU manufacturer, but the original default map on my Megasquirt was very rich compared to the Mazda factory ECU. I'm guessing they do that because extra rich doesn't create warranty claims compared to extra lean.

This one happened 2 days ago. My OH is currently in Japan on a business trip. She was in a restaurant with an American friend who lives there and speaks excellent Japanese. The Caucasian ordered in Japanese and the waitress responded in broken English: "Sorry I don't speak English" To which the American responded: "That's why I am speaking Japanese!" :hurray: You can't make this stuff up.

Light brown. That's why my car has a tan interior, as the wind blows pretty much all the time. As for tourists in Europe, my then-girlfriend spent a summer in Germany. She was waiting for a crossing light in Hamburg with several other people. One of them (an American) sneezed and another (a local) said: "Gesundheit" and the American girl turned around and said: "finally, someone who speaks English!" :smilielol5:

How are you seeing the lean operation? Wideband sensor or roughness followed by pulling a plug? I installed a wideband sensor with A/F readout and it's very interesting.

Can't see the reference on Canadians, but I would definitely slow down for this Danish version. NSFW http://giantlife.com/1007899/denmark-hires-topless-models-to-help-stop-speeders-nsfw-video/

When people ask me about the crashworthiness of my Westfield, I tell them that it replaces my motorcycle. Seriously, the skills that bike riders are supposed to learn are mostly to teach you how to avoid rather than survive accidents. I say *supposed* to learn because many of them don't. To anyone who regularly drives a Se7en on the road, I recommend taking an MSF course, even if you have no intention of riding a bike. Crashworthiness is nice, but I have to wonder how many accidents are caused by the new thick, reduced visibility A-pillars that hold airbags? Sorry to hear about your accident, Croc.

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are. BTW, we have great beaches here in Mojave. The ocean is 100 miles away, but the beaches here are plenty sandy.

Now THAT'S a severance package. :seeya:

My hat's off to Mazda and I thank them for coming out with the Miata. I remember the lean years of sports cars when nothing new was coming from the manufacturers. Then, I eagerly followed the development of the Fiero......... until they announced the 2600 lb weight. Luckily, the MR2 came out and I bought an '87 model in '89. I REALLY wanted a Miata but the dealers were adding several thousand dollars to the price and I couldn't justify the money.

Let's take one example that's relevant to our cars, detailing. Current state-of-the-art in car detailing is automatic car washes. They remove the average dirt and add scratches. Nothing on the inside because cars are too different there. Let's stipulate that in the future it becomes possible to build a robot that does a far better job. Let's also stipulate that robot costs 1 million dollars. Will any individual or organization buy that piece of capital equipment and start a car detailing business with it? Nope. The return on investment won't be there. So you can either be an entrepreneur and invest $500 and start a car detailing business, or you can go find someone else who already did that and ask for a job detailing cars. That's a job that will likely never be taken by automation, and it has a reasonable degree of job satisfaction, and it requires very little education. I argue that there will always be enough of this kind of job, and I'm not talking about Jim Croche's 'Workin' at the Car Wash Blues'. Now I'll take the opposite argument and make the generalization (always incorrect) that technology is making it easier to be an entrepreneur. My ex-wife was an artist. She sold her work to galleries and at craft shows. She hated the business side of being self-employed. Then, in the 1980s, along came personal computers and she started doing the drudgework on the computer. After that, she got to spend less time doing the government required paperwork and more time doing her art. But closer to the subject thread, a few of her friends were sufficiently successful to hire help. Wedging the clay (I'm talking pottery now), stacking and firing the kiln, etc.

I hadn't seen that before. Thanks for sharing. There was a new buzz slogan going around when I entered the 'real' workforce. It was 'work smarter, not harder'. That slogan always pissed me off because it insinuated that I was not already working smart. So I coined a derivative "Do less work. Get more done.'

This is an old discussion. The industrial revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries saw lots of these stories. Cobblers were going out of business because of shoe making machinery. Farm hands were being put out of work by traction machines. The word sabotage comes from workers throwing their wooden shoes (sabots) into the machinery. But it all came with a higher standard of living for everyone in those cultures. Are we seeing something fundamentally different now? I honestly don't know. My sister-in-law was a manager for Burroughs Electrodata, a company that couldn't compete. After she laid off 300 employees, she couldn't take the stress and laid herself off. Now she has a landscaping company with 2 employees. I see that as the purest form of capitalism. The world frankly doesn't need the products that company made, so why prop it up? There's an example of a potentially interesting job that doesn't require much education and is hard for robots to do.... creative landscaping. Not cutting grass, but working with an architect to present a landscape plan. Lots of similar examples. But I sure wish an artificial intelligence would tell me why the MegaSquirt quit in my Westfield but the reinstalled factory ECU works fine...:banghead:

I absolutely agree with your second sentence. As for the first, some education is necessary, but that's not the sole determinant. The least effective person in my company has a PhD. One of my jobs is interviewing prospective engineers, and it's gonna be a looong time before *that* job is replaced by a machine. I screen for creativity, and that's also something machines are not suited for. Unfortunately, it's also something the schools don't teach.

True, but the drag coefficient of that particular scoop looks pretty low. That's based on a quick look at the aft closeout.