Actually you're supporting me, I'm on welfare.
Yes there are programs, I even have one that I licenced from NASA.
Trouble is they don't design the thing for being built using my method of construction. No one makes them this way. If we used the construction of the turbine industry they would cost more than your car. A lot more.

I can't get into all the things without giving the family jewels away.
And the only jewels I have left I'm sitting on. Remember I have that young girlfreind who would leave me if I had any less. Jewels or money.

 

RP I forgot. I am headed to the airport tomorow with Bobby's name on a "post it"
I will let you know.

John

 

OK this is some text found on page two of this thread posted by Richard. I apologize for the confusion Richard

******OK I didn't think anyone out there in RX land would remember the Latham supercharger. So I droped that name for this new unit. But for those who do remember I am the designer and builder of the Latham Supercharger.

My bad ..Oh and hymee didn't mean to hurt your feeling's..It'll be OK

Furthermore Richard I did find the updated imformation interesting and will admit I jumped the gun...

 

Itrx8, On behalf of myself and I include my freind Hymee also we accept. And welcome to the club and baptisim by fire.
Be aware, this group lets you get away with NOTHING. This is a rough house to play to.

 

ltrx8,

No worrries, mate. Its all good. Like Richard says - it can be a rough house to play! Have fun though

Cheers,
Hymee.

 

I forgot to add the little wink on the end of that last post about bolting it on.
That Latham I found on eBay looked gigantic, I would have guessed a lot more than 33lbs :D
It's even more amazing that you still have the record of sale for that particular unit
By the way you're not so bad at teaching, because that was an good history lesson, it kept me captivated.

 

Richard's discussion of the evolution of the Latham unit and envisioning it feeding a rotary engine makes me think of how they tested the engines for the SR-71 (not to hijack this thread into the aviation realm ). In order to feed the Pratt & Whitney J-58 with enough air to run, they ran a J-75 in front of it and routed the hot exhaust directly into the inlet on the Blackbird's engine. For some reason, a turbine compressor feeding the rotary (the closest thing to a jet engine in a car) has that same visceral appeal. See http://aerostories.free.fr/technique...01/page11.html for interesting tidbits on the SR-71 engines.

I guess next I'll be imagining afterburners and mach diamonds in the exhaust stream.

Keep it coming Richard, you've got us all stoked.

 

that's some good reading.
i remember being in love witht he sr71 when i was a kid...it's cool to read about what powered it.

 

Cool site, I love that plane, I have it as backdrop on my screen.

For a real fun read get the paperback book "Skunk works" by Ben Rich. It has stories from the SR development and the F-117. Great insite into the Skunk works by the designer of the F-117.

That's a peice of engineering that no one can deny. Sick of hearing all those Mercedes and Porche Drivers giving me this German engineering BS.
That's Ok the 'merican's have a car for those German engineers to try if they want to see engineering. They can test drive it anytime they want, we left the keys in it.
It's on the moon.

 

Don't you think that the battery is dead by now? And what put it there in the first place? And who lead the development of that rocket? http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy.../VonBraun.html
:D
Hey watch out, the Austrian's already rule over America's most powerful state. :D

Also the Russian's put the first vehicle on the moon:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/spa...t/lunokhod.jpg
(....and someone actually bought it in an auction a few years ago.)

 

Isn't that the book where they describe the radar cross section test? I remember it going something like:

radar op, "Sir, could you check that your model hasn't fallen off the stand?"

designer, "nope, it's still there."

radar op plays with settings, "oh, there it is."

designer looks out the window and sees a large bird sitting on top of the model, doesn't have the heart to tell the kid what happened.

 

Ahh yes but Von braun himself gave credit to an american for showing him how to build rockets. I can't bring his name up at he moment but it's in my head somewhere. Anyway it was from his US patents that Von Braun learned to secrets that lead to his future work. I know you will look this up with your ability to work the net.

I don't know about those batterys because they are solar charged. Maybe they last forever in no atmosphere. So if the Germans want to try it we will get some new batterys if nessasary.

Don't rap Arnie or he'll kick you ***. Maybe he can beat some sense into the Demo's. Doesn't matter this state is going down anyway, look at our two bitch Sen's Boxer and Fienstien. What a pair to draw too. Look at the politics of the SF area. Look at our higher education, IE. Berkley, UCLA, Stanford. Etc. There is so much liberalisum in their professors that no hope is left. I'm just glad I'm old.

California is unmanagable with the illegal imigration in the south and the fringe north it has to fall. I am personally leaving here. Really, I can't see paying the taxes to run a buisness here. You can't get around by car, it's just a parking lot. As soon as we get this place up and running we're otta'here.
I'm putting the shop in Carson City and will live at Lake Tahoe. Gotta love Nevada.

 

Richard, I was just giving you a hard time.
Btw, that whole 'German engineered' thing is really an American notion. You won't find any people in Europe (apart from Germans themselves and they hardly bring this up) that will brag about German engineered things.

 

Richard, maybe we should start calling you Tyrone Slothrop . By your knowledge and experience I think you probably have gone through similar experiences being aroused by rockets :p. If you haven't read Gravity's Rainbow by now you should give it a shot, you would enjoy it.

 

No, I'm not aware of that book, but I just might look for it.

 

American who showed Von Braun rocketry = Goddard?

 

Zaku, Thank you. I had it on the tip of my tounge but couldn't bring it up

 

No reason I should scroll so far down to find this thread. Any interesting news Richard?

 

91 pages boo hoo
Jon just got to 100.

Guess I better get some news up. Today we cut some new blades with an evolved aerodynamic shape. Bench test next week, I hope if the shop function allows.

 

Richard, I have been following this thread since the beginning, and seem to have forgotten a few things.

Can you recap the benefits of your SC vs. what your know of the Greddy Kit? performance, low RPM benefits, install costs (seems the Greddy is pretty reasonably priced to install, but I imagine yours would be even lower cost to install, or even an easy DIY)

 

Pictures, Richard....people need pictures!! You know my email address.

 

I'm going to buy my first digital camera this weekend. Then I can post more often, as soon as I learn how to use it.

I should be able to control the pix then and be able to post them myself. Prior to now I just couldn't adjust the size to get them in. (I can hear the funnies coming on that line)

BTW I will answer the prior question in a little while. It's 6 in the morning and I'm not awake yet.

 

Why would his be LOWER cost? I would certainly expect it to be quite a bit higher than Greddy's turbo.
(At first I thought you ment only the cost to have it installed, but then you mentioned Greddy's price).

He is actually BUILDING these units, then will have to have them manufactured. This is a very unique product unlike anything on the market. I certainly wouldn't hold my breath on his kit costing under 3k.

There probably won't be many reliable FI kits cheaper than Greddy's for a very long time, if ever.

 

ill pay whatever it costs to have a beer can blower bolted to my engine

 

Geez - you guys sure must have BIG beer cans!

Cheers,
Hymee.