clint78z Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 Good little article http://www.overboost.com/story.asp?id=1283 solid crank pullies = stupid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2126 Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 Excellent read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNeedForZ Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 mmmm, informative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desert dog Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 Very good read. I was trying to get that point across on the 300zxclub forum but those guys were effectively ignoring me. Oh well, it is their cars not mine. Nothing like a crankshaft catastrophic failure to ruin your day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave88SS Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 They started with such promise: "We don't call them "dampeners" because the correct word is "damper."" Then they 'dampened' my parade: "but most of the pulleys out there are not dampened" They shoulda/coulda called up a local university and had some undergrad engineers snag them some harmonic data. Matlab (and now Octave) can do some fun stuff with the data http://www.cs.wright.edu/~jslater/vtoolbox/vtoolbox.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhadman Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 Well... technically they were correct. dampened is the past tense of dampen. Not to be confused with the name of the parts: Dampers Main Entry: damp·er Pronunciation: 'dam-p&r Function: noun 1 : a dulling or deadening influence 2 : a device that damps : as a : a valve or plate (as in the flue of a furnace) for regulating the draft b : a small felted block to stop the vibration of a piano string c chiefly British : SHOCK ABSORBER So... a pulley that is not dampened is not a damper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave88SS Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 technically that is accepted. But I would never talk like that in front of my vibrations professor I would have used 'damped' instead of dampened. Especially after going thru the effort of saying they are 'dampers' not 'dampeners' i.e. something that damps, not dampens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhadman Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 technically that is accepted. But I would never talk like that in front of my vibrations professor I would have used 'damped' instead of dampened. Especially after going thru the effort of saying they are 'dampers' not 'dampeners' i.e. something that damps' date=' not dampens.[/quote'] Lol... so many ways to say it! I was looking at it from a dictionary perspective... you're looking at it from an engineering point of view. Two different worlds, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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