The Parting Shift: The Coolest Job in the World, Driving an F1 Engine and Trans on a Test Stand

[cjforumadmin]

http://www.bangshift.com/blog/The-Parting-Shift-The-Coolest-Job-in-the-World.html

[min301]

Re: The Parting Shift: The Coolest Job in the World, Driving an F1 Engine and Trans on a Test Stand

Damn that sounds wicked.

[RyanWalker]

Re: The Parting Shift: The Coolest Job in the World, Driving an F1 Engine and Trans on a Test Stand

Union job ? :D Lucky SOB.....

[miketblsr]

Re: The Parting Shift: The Coolest Job in the World, Driving an F1 Engine and Trans on a Test Stand

Anyone can heel tow sitting still. ;)

[BangShift McT]

Re: The Parting Shift: The Coolest Job in the World, Driving an F1 Engine and Trans on a Test Stand

That's a LOT like masturbation...damn close, but it seems like something is missing...

[chryco63]

Re: The Parting Shift: The Coolest Job in the World, Driving an F1 Engine and Trans on a Test Stand

At least give the guy a steering wheel. If it were me, I'd even have a helmet on.

[DanStokes]

Re: The Parting Shift: The Coolest Job in the World, Driving an F1 Engine and Trans on a Test Stand

Running a full-featured dyno IS cool. I did it a LOT and eventually got to where I enjoyed setting the engines up way more than running them. Our dynos could do what you see on the vid w/o transmission - the dyno can add and subtract load so quickly that the engine THINKS it's being shifted and sounds like it. Of course, that doesn't do anything for trans testing.

I couldn't see the dyno well enough to tell you what it is but it's probably a DC dyno. If the vid was newer I'd figure it was a flux-vectored AC but 'tain't. In either case it definitely sounds like it's applying a negative load (like a truck pushing it's engine down a hill) so it's not an Eddy current and it's WAY too fast to be hydrokinetic (like a Superflow). Somethin' I know somethin' about!

Dan

[dieselgeek]

Re: The Parting Shift: The Coolest Job in the World, Driving an F1 Engine and Trans on a Test Stand

the reversion gives me comfort!