At 06:25 PM 5/27/98 +0000, you wrote:
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> Now the horror story. My first runs on the G-Tech showed 193 rear
>wheel horsepower, that at 300 or so miles on the clock. Decided to
>check it this AM on the way home from work, and could only get 174???
>Can these meters go bad? The only changes I've made were: oil change @
>550 miles (10w30 Dino oil), 180 deg t-stat & Jeep upper hose, last 2
>fill-ups with premium gaso. Oddly enough, I lent the G-Tech to a friend
>with an old hot rod Ford Pickup that keeps up with and occasionally
>beats a bona-fide, track tested 12.80 sec Nova. He could only get a
>14.6 on the meter, (VERY traction limited this day), even with 15" tires
>on 15x14 rims. Needless to say, I don't know how reliable this
>particular G-Tech will be.
I've been messing around with some accelerometers myself, that
are rated probably about the same as the one in the g-tech. (They're
0-5g's, with a 1,000G shock tolerance (500G's when its on)) Sounds
like a lot, but a 1,000G shock can happen from simply dropping it
on the floor. I don't have a G-tech, but does it say anything in the
docs about shocks? I suppose its possible that your friend might have
dropped it and damaged it or something...
-Jon-
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