You are all entitled to tell me that I have too much time on my hands and not to quit my day job.
FACT - There are a limited number of things which can be done to squeeze more power out of the stock 2.8. Without blowing the engine to pieces, the limit seems to be a turbo, upgraded ignition and water / alcohol injection. I have done all three of those improvements. And is 0-60 mph in 6.5 to 7.0 seconds good enough from a "stock 2.8" - NO. But that's about it anyway.
Fiction- I have been working for years on the concept of a working Flux Capacitor Drive for my Turbo GT. After endless hours ( just a few actually) I have created a working Flux Capacitor. With luck it is pictured below. The Flux Capacitor takes its power from a Prius battery, 205 volts and is amplified with power from a roof mounted solar panel. The input power generated (500 volts) is then fed into a power inverter which raises the output to 5,208 volts A.C. The ratio is based on the traditional inverter units which take 12 volts D.C. and create output of 125 volts A.C. The unit contains 5 colored laser strands, each activating and glowing in succession in the production of power. The 5,208 volts is didtributed by the stock Fiero ECM (right) to the MSD multiple spark discharge unit and to the engine oil and transmission oil, electrifying it, and reducing friction to zero. The end result of all this is that I get the same 0-60 mph in the same 6.5 - 7.0 seconds I started with. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
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jscott1 Member
Posts: 21676 From: Houston, TX , USA Registered: Dec 2001
The main reason your acceleration didn't increase lies in the misalignment of your phased linear array. I think the correct numbers resemble cartesian coordinates.
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Doc John Member
Posts: 749 From: Fayetteville, Arkansas Registered: Feb 2007
your problem is I doubt your generating the 1.21 jigga watts required to run a flux capacitor.. try upgrading your solar panels to be 100000594% efficient.
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Posts: 1407 From: Southold, New York, USA Registered: Nov 2004
WOW - I wish you guys were here as I developed this thing; I would have gotten it right the first time. Did it help the car ? No ! But the random lighting of the individual groups of wires is good company when driving at night. Ed
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30+mpg Member
Posts: 4061 From: Russellville, AR Registered: Feb 2002
WOW - I wish you guys were here as I developed this thing; I would have gotten it right the first time. Did it help the car ? No ! But the random lighting of the individual groups of wires is good company when driving at night. Ed
It could be a racial slur about electrocution or it could be a misunderstanding or a misspelling of the term "giga-watt" or GW. A gigawatt is 1,000,000,000 or one billion watts. All you Carl Sagan fans, say it out loud, "One BILLION watts."
846 w =1 HP
1 GW = 1,182,033 Horse power
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FACT - There are a limited number of things which can be done to squeeze more power out of the stock 2.8. Without blowing the engine to pieces...
Stick with the turbo & call it good...my LT-1 powered Trans-Am is lucky to hit 0 - 60 MPH in much less than 7 seconds (6.3). No need for Flux Capacitors at our ages...in a car, that is - LOL.
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ducattiman Member
Posts: 674 From: TheNetherlands Registered: Mar 2003
It could be a racial slur about electrocution or it could be a misunderstanding or a misspelling of the term "giga-watt" or GW. A gigawatt is 10,000,000,000 or ten billion watts.
846 w =1 HP
1 GW = 11,820,331 Horse power
Or more than one and a half Saturn V rockets.
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blakeinspace Member
Posts: 5923 From: Fort Worth, Texas Registered: Dec 2001
