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- From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
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- Subject: Re: All-wheel drive???
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:26:36 GMT
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- Dances With Bikers (blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com) wrote:
- : jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
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- : >All that aside, it's an incorrect followup. Everyone knows that
- : >the JAS engines (not to be confused with JAP engines) had legendarily
- : >high efficiencies, due largely to the cylinder design. Instead of
- : >relying on conventional piston rings (with their attendant frictional
- : >losses) to seal the cylinders, the JAS engines used prelubricated
- : >piston sheaths, made of sheep intestines, to assure a leak-free, low
- : >friction tight fit.
- :
- : While you are quite correct on the generalities Jonathan, I believe that
- : the original design used llama intestines, with the move to sheep
- : occuring with the production models. I've not yet been able to determine
- : if the change was required by regulatory agencies, or if it was a simple
- : cost cutting measure.
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- I think that change was the result of a successful lobbying effort on
- the part of Scots sheep herders. It was much better politically to
- avoid getting parts from foreigners.
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- * Bill Ranck ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu *
- * Computing Center at Virginia Tech, not Vermont ----------------------^^ *
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