Re: That ole Livna Problem/That ole VLC Problem

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On Thursday 17 January 2008, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Well, it is sort of like customizing your car.  You can go out and buy
> cylinder liners and matching pistons and rings and everything is OK.
> Then you decide to do a bit of street dragging and end up damaging a
> piston.  So you need to change it.  You find one that is from a
> different manufacturer and decide that it is close enough...only to find
> out that performance is now in the toilet and you're burning oil.

But here there are standards.  You can indeed mix aftermarket parts to a 
limited degree; you can use an Edelbrok intake with a Holley carb, typically, 
for instance.  You can even get kits to take a small block Chevy (say, a 
327), convert it to run backwards, and adapt to a Prosche transaxle to really 
boost your vintage 911's horsepower.

But this again points out the enthusiast nature of Fedora; enthusiasts will go 
to these sorts of lengths, regardless of their field of enthusiasm (I've done 
a couple of engine rebuilds in the past, and have seen the results of real 
standards put into practice, and have seen the lengths an enthusiast will go 
to get it to work).

Now, piston sets are balanced and must be used as a set.  But you can mix one 
manufacturer's pistons with another's rings and another's rods and yet 
another's crank and yet another's bearings, thanks to journal size, bore, and 
stroke standards.

But you get a real enthusiast, and something like a 327 small block in a 1986 
S10 is possible;  or even something like a Ford 300 inline six cylinder with 
six individual Weber single barrels on a performance intake with a roots 
blower putting out an incredible 500bhp with torque that's drag-strip worthy 
(see fordsix.com if you're interested in such things!) in a vintage 
64-and-a-half 'stang.  Or a 527 Hemi Chrysler engine making nearly 1000 bhp 
in a similar configuration in a 69 Charger. 

Or the '70's Camaro that's here locally, about 20 miles from here.  This 
Camaro is a real head turner; I think it has something to do with the 6 inch 
lift, the Super Swampers, and the old International Harvester 
four-wheel-drive undercarriage.  But I could be wrong.  Sure would come in 
handy today, with six inches of snow on the ground.  But I think that guy has 
modded that Camaro for rock-crawling.....sure does have a huge transfer case!

If we understand that Fedora is an ideal enthusiast Linux then the whole 'user 
is responsible for their own mix and matching' attitude is very 
understandable.  If we think that Fedora is an ideal newbie or general-user 
distribution, then, well, I have an old Crosley four cylinder you'd love to 
drop into a Ford Festiva.  I'll come back in twenty years after you've made 
it work. :-)
-- 
Lamar Owen
www.pari.edu


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