There Is A Problem With All Of My Engines

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[haulngrassracing]

All that oil gushing out cleaned the shavings out of the oil pan. Good thinking 👍

[sigstackfault]

"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy"

[rickmellor]

The number of times I've gone to the garage to "look at something" only to get carried away and end up burning a hole in my shoes or caking them in grinder dust... it is the natural order of things.

[EricSchnabel]

2:25 I love the effort that went into "flipping" the graph, except it still went positive first. 😂😂

[RAD-RC]

I love how you fixed your oil stained shoes by simply adding more oil to stain them uniformly. Most likely conditioned the leather now so they could last longer.

[callumkingunderwood]

Perhaps it's just that I work for an oscilloscope company, but my gut reaction was "hey let's stick a scope on the sensor"

[Hickeyjones]

Once you finally set a record with your land speed car, you should drain the oil from that day and sell it as limited edition leather shoe conditioner.

[joels]

I made an optical pickup for an old Suzuki engine. It was glorious. Just a phototransistor, infrared LED, mosfet and JB weld. VASTLY superior to the magnetic pickup. All that magnetic noise and hysteresis just goes away and you get a beautifully clean signal. In that case it even worked with the stock encoder wheel. You can even park it right next to the stator on the dry side of the crank. If you're having signal issues I highly recommend going optical.

[chrisknight]

The perfect antidote to modern life depression engineering, science, bodging and subtle humour. Keep up the good work!

[eformance]

What I'm hearing is that the Microsquirt doesn't have a zero crossing detector. This was a point of contention very early in Megasquirt history. Al didn't want to use the LM1815 off-the-shelf zero crossing detector "because he was told it was going to be EOL" and so the MS didn't get a VR interface. However, you could make a perfectly serviceable discrete Zero Crossing detector with an LM139. Meanwhile, the LM1815 is still readily available 20 years later, in fact I see that DIYautotune sells them!

[paultinwell]

Lovely... and extremely pertinent as I too was struggling with the problem just yesterday! You didn't mention the Microsquirt noise filtering facility for the crank trigger, which can be mapped with engine speed, giving you that "BMW facility" on which you waxed lyrical. It's in the Ignition settings tab and fixed all my remaining issues. You're welcome.

[natexthomass]

I love this channel so much. Not only does it teach me about vehicles I probably otherwise wouldn’t care to learn about but it also applies engineering principles to your project cars. Leaving me invaluable knowledge about how to approach things.

Also made me realize that spending 3x the money to do something yourself only to buy the proper solution is a way of life and something that’s probably never going to stop me.

[codyoftheinternet]

My dad is a commercial electrician and he constantly refers to “magic smoke” it’s nice to see that other people have in depth knowledge of electrical devices as well

[Thomas..Anderson]

By adding a resistor in parallel you are just decreasing the overall input impedance of your controller. The voltage stays the same. By adding a resistor in series with a controller input you are creating a voltage divider and increasing input impedance. To reduce the noise you could insert a low-pass filter, which would filter everything above highest engine frequency.

[julias-shed]

Excellent result. I would think an oscilloscope might be useful for sorting out this kind of problem or befriend an electronics engineer 😀

[theephemeralglade]

Haha! I'd love to see them Superfast boys get theyselves out of THIS one!

[Duhbreh]

Great content! I just wanna suggest try using a shop-vac to catch the stray metal dusts. You can pretty easily modify the vacuum hose attachments by heating the plastic with a heat gun to help it them fit in those little areas and be used simultaneously with your grinder tool, etc.

[DrTheRich]

I love my slow turning Ford Model A engine. when on a trip i miss no radio.

[sagestubbs]

I want to learn how to trust the way Matt trusts oil filters

[BoschPianoMusic]

Did I get baited by 40.000 rpm? yep and I do feel silly about it, always great humor on this channel!