Recent content by Grayfox

Haha wow! Unbelievable.

Thanks for all the useful replies! Astronuc, that is exactly what I was looking for.

All the time I hear how steam is an excellent way of transferring and storing energy, but I'm questioning it at this point. Consider a Coal-powered electric generating station. Enormous amounts of heat are produced by the coal to heat water in pipes that is transformed into steam. This steam...

Thanks to everyone for your input, the car is behaving normally again. As it turns out, Allenman was right, the exposed clutch got wet and temporarily degraded the power transmission between the engine and the gears. After letting it sit a couple days it dried up in the Arizona weather and was...

Sweet! Sounds like good news to me, I guess I'll just use my work truck while it dries. Thanks, I'll confirm this when I know for sure.

Yes Allenman the things you've mentioned are correct, K&M aftermarket intake is in a relatively high position. The clutch getting wet makes the most sense, as it felt like occasional slippage when I shifted through the gears, I was also thinking maybe some water got in the muffler and created...

That's true, but I don't think the Distributor cap was compromised, there was no knocking/pinging or misfires. I think all of the electrical is fine, I'm wondering about mechanical ailments.

Wow I never heard of that steam cleaning technique before, but it might've saved my rods from getting wrecked since liquid water is incompressible. I will check the filter this morning, and the check engine light has not turned on. It is a manual transmission.

I know, avoid when possible, but I didn't see it until it was too late. I drove my 2002 Ford Mustang through maybe a foot of water for something like 10 seconds. It felt like it was about to stall but never did. On the drive home there were brief but occasional moments where the car would...

Those are some interesting design possibilities carmatic that are very plausible! Now I just would like know which one is the industry standard. I have since built the scenario I described and sure enough the high pressure air displaced the liquid, BUT, there was a configuration that...

No not necessarily, especially in my example, the pressure head alone would have to be immense to overpower 30 psi, maybe something on the order of a 4 story building to accomplish that.

I understand why liquid is sucked into a tube of flowing air with a constricted end due to Bernoulli's principle, what puzzles me is why the air doesn't just take the path of least resistance instead of inducing liquid suction (see attached image). For example, if a 1/4 inch line at 30 psi has...

Common Temperature ranges from a welding arc can range from 3000-8000 Degrees Celsius. I would like to know the direct relationship of a resultant arc temperature based on the amount of current (amps) flowing. Let's say common steel for the base metal (Electrical Resistivity: 1.74e-005...

Thanks for your elaboration Ranger Mike, this is precisely what I was interested in.

Lack in Chemistry is certainly not the reason to shy away from this major. You will find that the advanced courses focus heavily on physics, thermodynamics, and of course math. The main drawback that I've encountered is ignorance about what this major really encompasses. I was recently at a...