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to: ROY J. TELLASON
from: TOM WALKER
date: 2005-04-28 07:35:00
subject: Gas Prices vs. Mileage

RJT>I used to run "middle grade" gas in my car,  I forget
which one by now,  bu
RJT>then I also had the engine tuned for it -- I'd tweaked the distributor timi
RJT>just short of pinging.  Dunno if you can do that sort of thing with somethi
RJT>as new as what you're talking about there,  though,  without changing a chi
RJT>There used to be a mailing list for that sort of thing,  I have no idea if
RJT>still going or not,  it was called DIY-EFI or something pretty close to tha
RJT>There were some really knowledgable folks in there back then.
RJT>Getting the info on this stuff is the really hard part.  There were apparen
RJT>some "SAE White Papers" that covered a lot,  but you had
to _buy_ them and
RJT>weren't cheap.

 Thay have fairly locked down the engine Control computers nowdays. The
 day of a plug i nROM chip have past. But I have heard that there for
 some models some "Re-Programing" tricks that can be done.
OF coursae they are ALL Illegal in California. And also against FEDERAL
law btu most states don't enforce those and the Feds don't have the man
power.
Althogh it we would Enforce the Bumper Height Laws we would save quite
a few lives per year. But rthen it is only Humna Life and the LIBERALS
don't give a shit about that. The only Life they cry upon loosing is a
Rapist, Child Molester, or a Murder.
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