Rule seven- well, not really rules, but some guidelines. Rule six- once matches are made, you will have ONE WEEK to make contact with your partner, and to confirm that contact by posting again in this thread. Rule five- if you have previously signed up for the gift exchange, and then not held up your end of the exchange, you will not be permitted to participate this year. If there’s a problem, contact me via e-mail or IM, and I'll do my best to get it sorted out. Name calling, trash talking or other violation will not be tolerated. Rule four- this thread will follow all of this site’s COC rules. I’ll do my best to politely and honorably assist in any SNAFU’s, but at the end of the day, it will come down to each participant’s personal integrity. Gift exchanging will not be enforced by the moderators, staff, or me. If your only purpose in joining is to get rid of a moth eaten, tye-dye "Vote for Pedro" tee shirt you found in the parking lot of your local big box store after last winter's flood. Rule three- this is not a dirty Santa type of exchange. Come up with a mutually acceptable amount, and then have fun with it. Both are OK, but if you fall into the category where spending $50.00 puts an unbearable strain on your finances or prevents you from eating, it’s best to bow out. Others spend substantially more on their partner. But understand that some people might honestly not be able to afford that amount. Rule two- previous years have set a suggested precedent for a dollar amount of +/- $50.00. It is my opinion that the joy should be in giving. I have personally been very fortunate in getting hooked up with extremely generous and thoughtful people through the years, and I have tried to operate under the same guidelines with the gifts I’ve sent. Nor do they have any say in what they get from you. It’s not a trade, it doesn’t follow the rules of the equipment exchange, and you basically have no say in what comes your way from your partner. Pay close attention to the dates and make sure you can work with them before signing up. I hope that the results of this year’s gift exchange will confirm that. We have been blessed with a community of generally like minded, generally upstanding, and generally honorable members. It’s my goal as the quasi-ringmaster of the survival forum gift exchange to do everything within my very limited power to ensure that this runs smoothly.
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The history of the Road to Nowhere is quite the story, and full of emotion. 5 miles, and you'll arrive back at the parking lot and Lakeshore Trail trailhead. The color is said to be due to to the large number of copper mines once located in this area.Īt this point the trail begins a pretty aggressive climb up for a good mile, where you'll intersect with the Tunnel Bypass trail. In about a quarter of a mile, you'll get a view of one of the many coves in Fontana Lake. In about 1/2 a mile, you'll see a trail to the left, that will take you to campsite 67, also the site for an old homestead - We didn't venture up this trail on this particular visit, but will in the future. Goldmine Loop trail will follow alongside Goldmine Branch and through the forest. Continue on past this one, and just shortly after you'll see Goldmine Loop trail, also on the left - This is the one you want to take. The first trail you'll pass is tunnel bypass trail. 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The fluorescent dye allowed us to see the behavior of the air/fuel mixture in fine detail. I finally recalled where I had read about carbon reading and it was off Reher Morrison's site in an article by Darin Morgan. Detonation and fuel washdown can also influence the carbon pattern but I don't see that here.Īh thanks. For example, Desmo naturally intuited (quite correctly IMO) that the bare sections on the piston were strong squish areas. It's pretty simple, the carbon buildup pattern indicates the predominant areas of combustion. My honest thinking about big intruders is they act like a knife to the combustion gas force, and direct the main force away from the centre of the piston and create a sort of splitting swirt effect, but I’m only guessing on that one, I haven’t seen any data to support it, other than the fact that big intruder engines never make the power that a small intruder engine makes, I have seen this happen of BTCC, WRC and S1600 engines on several occasions…….am I making sense now? try to imagine a wide valve layout, say 50 degrees included angle, the space created in the combustion chamber would be massive, in order to get a sensible compression with sensible valve openings, you would need a big intruder, with quite deep fly cuts, don’t forget the deeper the fly-cuts, the less the compression – not a good situation to be in!.now consider an 18 degree included valve angle, the combustion chamber shape will be a lot shallower, requiring a much shallower intruder and fly-cuts to get the same compression as a 50 degree head……. In my mutterings about the compromise between intruders and fly-cuts………. which normally restrict flow, but it could easily be argued that this bend in the ports could help the tumble effect of the incoming charge, more tumble is a good thing.obviously F1 type installations dont have the bend packaging problem though! I’m not saying the guys wrong, but the more upright the valves are, the more bent the ports need to be, for under bonnet packaging reasons. Hmmmmm…….decreasing the valve angle makes the gas flow better. The combustion chamber is therefore practically contained in the piston cavities, such cavities becoming bigger as the stroke/bore ratio decreases, which makes it hard to obtain the high compression ratios required by high specific power engines." It should be borne in mind that aspirated racing engines require rather extreme valve lift and overlap angles, therefore, cavities are made in the piston crowns to prevent contact with the half-open valves. The "shape factor" is a critical synthetic value to check a combustion chamber's good operation, and a good indicator of its compactness and "thermal efficiency". This stems fundamentally from the need to augment the injection advance and from the worsening of the "shape factor" of the combustion chamber which, with the reduction of the bore/stroke ratio, becomes ever broader and flatter. Unfortunately, such a large bore currently causes combustion problems with dramatically decreased efficiency. "The Testastretta engine fitted to the Ducati 998R 2002 version, the bore is 104 mm. I think that the decreasing valve angle has contributed to good gas flow and this is where the power is coming from not necessarily the combustion chamber shape. Solid climbs are rewarded with curvy, flowing descents. 10.5 miles of smooth, machine-cut trail with sections ranging from beginner to advanced. 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