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Two people all day is 16 hours.

It doesn't sound far off to me.

Wow. Almost 2 years now. Bump iiiittt!

 

 

I live in Utah now and ride every single week. Still riding 26" bikes . In the process of finishing rebuilding a Specialized SX Trail II. I did a test ride with that thing, and man, it swallows anything you throw at it! I'll post pics soon.

Still 26ing here too. I've been riding a frame that works with 27.5 for a couple years, and bought 27.5 rims this summer (lightbicycle.com). And hubs (Hope). They are all going to become wheels pretty soon. Mostly I'm just hoping for fewer pedal strikes. The BB sits kinda low, so it's easy to bang into things with the low pedal if I'm not careful.

Compound-charged Hayabusa-based land speed record motorcycle...

In development since 2013, unveiled in 2016, but apparently it hasn't run any events yet. They have been updating their Facebook page from time to time though, so there's hope. Maybe after the pandemic...

https://www.facebook.com/pg/hassserafiniracing/posts/?ref=page_internal

Lego V12 shortblock spintron testing

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The actual stumble/stutter situation is caused by fuel pressure pulsation created by the factory fuel pressure regulator setup and the location of the pressure reference line to the FPR.

 

COBB has addressed this issue on the plastic intake manifold WRX's and has retrofit kits available that fit the LGT's. There are also DIY fixes that are well documented.

 

Most of the people chiming into this thread have unrelated issues to the original problem.

Stumble is just a symptom, and more than one thing can cause it.

I tried adding a 'water hammer' hose, and that didn't help. It helps some people, but it did nothing for me.

I tried moving the FPR pressure source, and that didn't help. This also helps some people, but did nothing for me.

Increasing AVCS advanced helped a lot. The factory tune for my 09 has far more advance than the factory tune for my 05, and my 09 never had any issue with stumble/stutter, so I think this approach is under-rated.

I've also watched false knock trigger so much timing retard that the car began to stumble in cruise. The stumble in that case was pretty severe. For years I saw threads about this topic and thought people were exaggerating... then it happened to me. Then it happened to me while I had my CarPC displaying IAM, FLKC and FBKC and it was obvious what was going on. I've only had that kind of massive stumble twice in about 90,000 miles, so it's not common, but it's definitely a thing.

Also called excess deaths.

Yep. And when you subtract the covid deaths from the excess deaths... you still have thousands of excess deaths left. Mostly those were attributed to pneumonia, which for some reason is a lot more common this year. Every week in April, a few thousand more deaths than usual were attributed to pneumonia.

But yeah let's pretend there's no pandemic going on. Let's have politicians produce the statistics instead of professionals. That approach worked so well for China, right?

The covid death count numbers are being revised.

They are lower than what they are telling you.

Look for the proper number in the near future

Ignore the covid/not-covid thing for a minute and just compare total deaths this calendar year to total deaths over the same period in the last few years.

There's been about 145,000 more deaths this year.

Why?

Billet 4G63, compound turbos, methanol, each cylinder has five injectors and makes 500 horsepower...

Meatsink.

I'd be a whole lot more comfortable with this if it were possible to validate its original source. It appears to have been posted on reason.com on April 9, with attribution to ourworldindata.org, but I can find no reference to it on the ourworldindata.org web site.

According to https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/new-york deaths-per-day peaked at just under 1000 in early April, and it was over 900 per day for a week, so 6300 for that week.

So apparently the 2700/week shown in the chart was from before things got really bad. And zero deaths until mid-March, so it really did ramp up quickly.

According to https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/as-nyc-nears-1000-covid-19-deaths-how-does-it-compare-to-typical-flu-seasons/2352180/ New York had 4749 deaths last year due influenza and pneumonia (not sure why they're conflated) which would average to a little over 91/week, which is roughly where the lower line is on that chart.

Seems close enough to me.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-covid-19-deaths-to-flu-deaths-is-like-comparing-apples-to-oranges/

Related...

Hello Adam, or Michael.

I have no experience with those printers but I do have some experience with spammers trying to raise their Google rank by posting links to their web sites at various forums with brand-new accounts, so I'm a little suspicious.

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I believe what this picture demonstrates is how awful the Chinese pollution problem truly is. If we need to be pissin on a country for their lack of response to environmental issues, a reduction in Bejing will give a lot more bang for the buck than Washington. The Chinese picture is clearly night and day on a GRAND scale, while the italy ones show a improvement but from a lot smaller starting point.

Sure but I'd be rather surprised if the 1.4 billion people in China were not generating [checks calculator] about 25x more pollution than the 60 million in Italy.

If you try to tell a billion people they're not allowed to pollute at the same rate as the rest of the world, you're going to have a bad time.

BTW, US carbon emissions per capita are about double China's.

I'm in a couple of Facebook groups dedicated to sourcing masks (commercial or improvised) with health care people dropping by periodically to ask for stuff and/or talking about how they're making do with what they have.

These are all in the last day or so:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/pnwcovid19relief/permalink/670402790427863/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/pnwcovid19relief/permalink/672751653526310/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/pnwcovid19relief/permalink/672716093529866/

That's the regional group. There's also a non-location-specific group with similar stories from other places:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensourcecovid19medicalsupplies/permalink/682755809201481/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensourcecovid19medicalsupplies/permalink/683257529151309/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensourcecovid19medicalsupplies/permalink/676479423162453/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensourcecovid19medicalsupplies/permalink/682755809201481/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/hospital-makes-face-masks-covid-19-shields-from-office-supplies

I also have a couple of friends who are dentists, who packed up all of their PPE and took it to hospitals.

EDIT: story about the guy who started the Northwest group:

https://www.koin.com/news/health/coronavirus/local-3d-printers-help-with-medical-ppe-shortage/

How long do you guys think the quarantine/stay home thing is going to last? Models are predicting the peak for most states to be somewhere between early to late April, but we are looking at late May/early June for it to be well past...

Plausible guess at the future:

https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

But hopefully it won't peak at the same time everywhere.

The Seattle area got an early start, and while cases are still coming in, the rate has started to drop, which suggests that the restrictions are working. So we might get an early break - not soon, but after our hospitals recover from this first wave of patients.

But I suspect that loosening restrictions anywhere will also depend on strong supply chains for medical gear like N95 masks and other stuff that's currently still pretty scarce.

It would be monumentally stupid to invite another wave of patients while health care workers are still re-using disposable equipment and begging the community to drop off home-made surgical masks. If I was a doctor or nurse in state with leadership that dumb I'd just stay home at that point.

I'm 5' 10"

 

I originally went with the fixed seat to get under the roll bar, and we used a 3" foam pad for my wife, but it was a compromise for both of us... too close for me, and too far for her. We had our first outing with the new setup last weekend and it worked perfectly. I don't know if a floor drop is available for 'Vettes, and if it is, I'm assuming the fabrication would be a lot more involved...

C5 floors are weird - it's basically fiberglassed balsa wood. So I don't know how you'd attach a new floor in way that anyone would be willing to bet their life on it.

If someone can find a way to make it work, it would be a popular product. C5 forums and FB groups are full of people looking for ways to get more headroom. Not generally big deal for daily driver duty, but it gets challenging with a helmet.

Suggested reading for someone who wants to learn to tune:

http://www.romraider.com/index.php/RomRaider/IncompleteGuideToTuning

Also, just ask your questions. You don't need permission to ask and you don't need someone to commit to answering them first. Just put them out there.

If you had started this thread by asking your questions, you might even have received answers by now.