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Re: [GMCnet] Reviving the Cad 500 [message #165536 is a reply to message #165534] Fri, 06 April 2012 08:19 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Ken Henderson is currently offline  Ken Henderson   United States
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Marsh,

No, I didn't intentionally ignore your note about measuring thrust -- it
just got lost in the shuffle & fatigue. It really wouldn't be that big a
task to rig a support across the front of the crank hub for a ball bearing
driven strain gauge connected to the cockpit PC for recording. I'd
probably win the "most instrumented" award with a setup like that! But I'm
not sure I could do it in time for Bowling Green or even Bean Station. :-)

Now if you'd get it all fabricated & the software written & send it up
here, I could probably get it mounted in time.

Ken H.


On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Marsh Wilkes <gmc455@comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> You know as well as I do, you can't go wrong with a transmission from
> Manny,
> in the long run it's a good decision regardless of any thing else.
> I think Manny has torque converters specially prepared for his
> transmissions, I would talk with him before ordering one elsewhere.
> You normally respond to each post with suggestions, I didn't see a response
> when I suggested the possibility of devising a way to measure the thrust,
> just wondering if you missed the post or thought the idea was that nutty?
>
> Good Luck
>
> Marsh Wilkes
> Perry Florida
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Henderson" <hend4800@bellsouth.net>
> To: <gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 11:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Reviving the Cad 500
> >
> > Similarly with the torque converter: Midwestern Performance Converters
> > doesn't think there's anything wrong with the one I've got, but I'm going
> > to call them tomorrow for a replacement.
>
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