Still more Re: <VV> CHT data calibrate

[Roger Gault]

I bow to superior wisdom.  ;-)
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: FrankCB@aol.com
  To: r.gault@sbcglobal.net ; virtualvairs@corvair.org
  Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 2:20 PM
  Subject: Still more Re: <VV> CHT data calibrate


         Well, Roger, where calibration comes in handy is in comparing
DIFFERENT CHT gauges in DIFFERENT engines.  Does 350 deg F in YOUR 140 Corsa
mean your engine is running colder than the 400 deg. F shown on MY 180 Corsa?
Or does it mean that our gauges are out of calibration?  Maybe YOUR 350 is
really 400 deg.F. and MY 400 deg F. is really 350.!!!!
         I do agree that with any ONE gauge in ONE car, it is the CHANGE in
reading from normal operation that provides the most important information.
         Frank "comical engineer" Burkhard

  In a message dated 10/26/04 3:15:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
r.gault@sbcglobal.net writes:


    So, Frank, you're driving down the road and you look down and your CHT
gauge
    is reading 327 degrees.  What are you going to do with this information
that
    couldn't be gotten from "Gee, it's a needle width higher than it was last
    week."

    This is not to say that I didn't calibrate my VDO gauges in boiling water
to
    see what the assumed reference junction temperature was, because I did.  I
am,
    after all, an anal engineer who likes to know useless things.  ;-)

    Roger Gault