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Anyone who wants to argue about motor oil or air filters, do it here, and quit hijacking other threads. The topic is clearly labeled so the rest of us who have made up our minds anyway can ignore it.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by GoFaster:
Read the friggin' owner's book and do what it says!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">cllick here for a movie and more infoWhen fluid flows smoothly without vortices or other turbulence, the flow is called LAMINAR. Typically when a fluid is flowing this way it flows in straight lines at a constant velovity. Water flowing smoothly and slowly from your faucet can show laminar flow. If the water hits a smooth surface, a circle of laminar flow results until the flow slows and becomes turbulent. Click the button below to see this.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Air filters don't kill engines,
people kill engines!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">my sisten bitten by a Yak onceOriginally posted by jjvincent:
Let me know next time when it is Synthetic Yak Season
-Synthetic Yak Season!
-Wabbit Season!
-Synthetic Yak Season!
-Wabbit Season!
-Synthetic Yak Season!
-Wabbit Season!
-Wabbit Season!
-Synthetic Yak Season!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What are you, crazy? Everyone knows Crystal Pepsi has a far better additive package and soot dispersal properties. Are you trying to wear out your cams?!?Originally posted by tdipoet:
i lubricate my car with New Coke. i use a tube of toilet paper with a plastic bag around it as a filter.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hello Pressurized,Originally posted by Pressurized:
Laminar??? I've been a professional aerodynamic engineer for over 16 years and can say that laminar flow is very infrequent anywhere on or inside a moving ground vehicle. Maybe for a short distance after the aircleaner. Maybe in a few square inches of surface area on the leading edge of the hood or in some cases the air intake. Could happen in the AC system ducting - maybe.
Don't confuse attached turbulent flow for laminar flow. Laminar flow happens in slow speed viscous flows and on wings of very smooth and specially designed airfoils on sailplanes and P51 Mustangs (airspeeds usually over our lowly 70 mph and not operating in nasty turbulent ground conditions).
Unknowing and hyper journalists have assigned "laminar flow" as the holy grail of aerodynamics since WWII. The reality is that it just ain't so for automobiles.