Sorry Bill, but I think you're missing a basic law of physics here;
there can be no change in state (speed) without energy being added to
the system (combustion) or subtracted (friction). So if you remove the
"add" (combustion), there is no way that momentium will make it go any
faster than it is at the point the power is removed as there is no new
energy in the system. As the prev. poster states, there is no such thing
as "conservation of acceleration"...
Craig
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WillTier@aol.com [SMTP:WillTier@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 1997 9:25 PM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: DML Digest V3 #295 (fwd)
>
> In a message dated 97-10-22 12:49:32 EDT, you write:
>
> << No. There is no such thing as conservation of acceleration. The
> rev
> limiter will absolutely limit the rpm, unless it is desieling. The
> tachometer needle could overshoot, but so what. The engines momentum
> can only maintain any given rpm, not increase it. >>
>
>
> Franky Franky Franky pretty hard for me to believe that a engine
> winding up
> at red line and missing a shift and hitting the rev limiter will stop
> at that
> RPM and not fly by it with momentum. I believe it would not have any
> power
> but would rev way past with the momentum. I may be wrong I was once
> before (I
> thought I was wrong but wasn't) but I need more convincing on your
> theory.
>
> Bill
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