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The Death of Vocational Education and the Demise of the American Middle Class
In our 2006 report, Tough Choices or Tough Times, NCEE documented the decline of that middle class. We contrasted the triangle-shaped distribution of the American income up to about 20 years ago with the emerging hour-glass shape of today. The fat middle of that triangle was the middle-class. The thing that gives the new hour-glass shape of our income distribution its singular pattern is the rapid disappearance of the middle class. Increasingly, those who used to be in the middle are dividing their destinations; a few are rising into the realm of the upper classes and many more are descending into the lower class.
Many global economic forces are at work contributing to inequality of incomes in the liberal democracies, but none is more important than differences in education levels within and among nations. We wrote about that in Tough Choices, and I will not repeat it here. What I want to focus on is something we have done to ourselves, something many of our most astute competitors have not done, something that is coming back to bite us big time.
Few Americans are aware of the extent to which our civilian economy used to depend on the breadth and quality of the vocational education system in our Armed Forces prior to the inauguration of the voluntary service following the Vietnam War. Millions of young people who were taken in by the Army had basic skills that were a bit shaky and very little in the way of vocational skills. They were trained as truck drivers, diesel mechanics, aircraft engine maintenance workers, road builders, computer system managers and quality system analysts. After their tour was over, they entered the civilian economy, ready to be far more productive than they were before they entered the Army. The services still train the people they recruit. But now, they aim to keep them, and the rate at which they become available to the civilian economy has been drastically reduced.
Years ago, when I was in high school, almost all the larger cities had selective vocational high schools. They were hard to get into, like Boys Latin and Girl's Latin. That's because the students who were admitted were virtually assured good jobs when they graduated. That was true because the number of slots in these schools were matched by the high schools to the number of estimated openings and those openings were limited. There were very close relationships between the high schools and the firms that looked to them to meet their employment requirements. So the firms made sure that the high schools had competent instructors and up-to-date equipment. After the Vietnam War, many educators concluded that it was morally wrong to have selective vocational high schools. Local boards of education asked all high schools to provide vocational education to anyone who wanted it. The close relationship between the supplier of highly trained youth and the companies who needed them was severed. The companies no longer provided the new equipment as the old became obsolete, and the high schools could not afford to do so on their own, so the equipment the students trained on prepared them for nothing. Nor did the companies any longer make sure that the vocational training programs were staffed by competent instructors. It was impossible to obtain such people anyway, because the equipment was no longer current. So the quality of instruction declined precipitously.
This was followed by increasing concern among reformers that the academic performance of American students was falling relative to that of students in the top-performing countries. The response for those high school students not already in the college track was to expand the number of academic courses, crowding out the time available for vocational education.
I will never forget an interview I did a few years ago with a wonderful man who had been teaching vocational education for decades in his middle class community. With tears in his eyes, he described how, when he began, he had, with great pride prepared young men (that's how it was) for well-paying careers in the skilled trades. Now, he told me, "That's all over. Now I get the kids who the teachers of academic courses don't want to deal with. I am expected to use my shop to motivate those kids to learn what they can of basic skills." He was, in high school, trying to interest these young people, who were full of the despair and anger that comes of knowing that everyone else had given up on them, to learn enough arithmetic to measure the length of a board. He knew that was an important thing to do, but he also knew that it was a far cry from serious vocational education of the sort he had done very well years earlier.
It was as if the United States felt that it had to choose between making improvements in students' academic skills and maintaining a system to provide robust vocational skills. We chose the former, and, with the inauguration of career academies in our high schools, substituted programs intended to motivate students to stay in school for serious vocational educational programs. We solved the problem of the low prestige of vocational programs the way we always deal with such problems, by renaming it, calling it career and technical education instead.
The trades unions still do a good job of preparing a handful of young people for certain skilled trades. And many of our community colleges have developed strong skill training programs, though, in most states, those programs are under threat because they are more expensive to operate and less prestigious than academic programs. But, in any case, the end result of the developments I have described is the virtual destruction of vocational education as a serious enterprise in our secondary schools.
Japan, Singapore, the Netherlands, Denmark and other leading industrial countries lived in the midst of the same global economic forces we did, but they did not do what we did in response. They doubled down to improve both their academic and their vocational programs. They built education systems designed to support the middle class as well as an elite. They built vocational education programs that require high academic skills. And they designed programs that could deliver those skills. They did not sever the connections between employers and their high schools; they strengthened them. They made sure their high school vocational students had first-rate instructors and equipment. Their reward is a work force that is balanced between managers and workers, scientists and technicians. No one tells an individual student what he or she will do with their life. But those students have a range of attractive choices.
We, on the other hand, appear to be blind to the devastation we have caused by our inattention to this vital part of our education system--and to the implications of that devastation.
I recommend to those who are interested: Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century. This report, issued last year by the Pathways to Prosperity Project at Harvard University, contains a plan for redemption in this arena. If Francis Fukuyama is right, what we do about the future of our middle class workers may be just as important for our political future as it surely will be for our economic future.
For a glimpse of what our high school will have to do to enable high school students to have the skills required to keep manufacturing in the United States, take a look at the Austin Polytechnical High School in Chicago. To see what it might look like at the community college level, see at what is going on the Advanced Technological Education program of the National Science Foundation. To compare what this country has now to our most successful competitors, read the descriptions of the national vocational education systems in the Netherlands, Australia and Singapore.


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Centennial Celebration
100 years of Gill fun and games
MANCHESTER — The Manchester Central boys' soccer team opened the Gill Stadium centennial celebration with a 2-0 win over Alvirne of Hudson Friday night.
Festivities for the 100th anniversary of the stadium continue today with kid-friendly events from 1 to 4 p.m., a marching band concert featuring Central, Concord, Manchester Memorial and Manchester West bands and a 7 p.m. football game between Central and Concord.
Sunday's lineup gets started at 10 a.m. with a performance by the Temple Band. An 11 a.m. re-dedication ceremony is scheduled to include speeches, a review of the stadium's history and music by the Average Joes Barbershop Quartet and the A.O.H. Pipes and Drums.
"Once it culminates and everything is done and you know it's a success, that's a great feeling," said Pat Bryan, a member of the Gill Committee. "If you come to the re-dedication and pick up the book for $2, there are so many pictures and you will know people in there and see all the history and it connects them forever. We're all a part of history."
Bryan and the rest of the committee were on hand for a reception Friday night at Sweeney Post across the street from Gill. Also present at the reception were several members of the Gill family and other notable names from the facility's history such as Clem Lemire.
As for the soccer game, Little Green senior Sam Binogono scored in the 35th minute to give Central a 1-0 lead. Binogono fired a shot from 15 yards out on the left side, bending it high into the far corner and past the dive of Alvirne goalkeeper Jake Schofield.
Binogono's classmate, Keegan LaBerge, scored in the 66th minute to give Central an insurance marker. LaBerge blasted a short-range shot into the center of the net during a flurry above the goalie box. The Little Green improved to 1-2-0 while Alvirne dropped to 1-1-0.
Soccer is just one of the many sports featured at Gill Stadium over the past 100 years, and was one of the sports played on the day it opened back on Sept. 8, 1913.
Constructed in 1913 by Amoskeag Manufacturing, Gill Stadium was originally called Textile Field. It was leased to the Amoskeag Textile Club for its baseball league until the city of Manchester purchased it in 1927 and changed the name to Municipal Athletic Field.
In 1967, the stadium was renamed Gill Stadium in honor of former Parks and Recreation director Ignace J. Gill, who served from 1935 to 1967.
"We're very proud of our father. He was so dedicated to youth sports. It was his life," said Rita Gill Zember. "He never had an education and to get to the point he did, how can you not be proud of that? He was a great man and we're very proud."
Gill Stadium has been the home to several baseball teams, including the Manchester Yankees (Class AA, 1947-48 and Class A in 1971-72) and the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in their inaugural season of 2004, which led to a major renovation of the facilities. The American Legion World Series was also hosted by the stadium in 1932, 1942, 1968, 1976, and 1977.
The original dedication of the stadium took place on Monday, Sept. 8, 1913. It featured a baseball game between the 1912 world champion Boston Red Sox and an all-star team from the city's Manufacturers' League as well as a relay race and soccer match between the Manchester Light Blues and the Amoskeag Textile club.
"There is so much history. Everybody has either had a relative who played there or they played there themselves in one sport or another. My brothers both played there (in the early 1950s). One played for Central (Jack Cavanaugh) and one played for West (Bill Cavanaugh)," Bryan said. "It touches everybody."


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Retired NASCAR legend and Wisconsin Rapids native Richard "Dick" Trickle died today from a self-inflicted gun shot wound. Here's a press release form the Lincoln County, North Carolina Sheriff's office:
Lincoln County Sheriff's Office News Release
Self-Inflicted Gun Shot Takes Life of Racing Legend
May 16, 2013
Lincolnton, NC – Retired race car driver Richard "Dick" Trickle, 71, died today from an apparent self inflicted gun shot wound.
The incident occurred at 12:02 p.m. at Forest Lawn Cemetery on Highway 150 East in Boger City.
The Lincoln County Communications Center received a call apparently from the victim that "there would be a dead body and it would be his ". Communications Center workers tried to place a return call to the number but did not get an answer.
The first emergency units arriving on the scene located the body lying near the victim's pickup truck.
Trickle was a Lincoln County resident and had lived here since the early 1990's


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By Richard Clarke
Arsène Wenger is famously forward-looking but, on reaching 60, even he took time out to reflect on what he has learned during his coaching career.
The Frenchman made his name at Monaco, spent an enlightening spell in Japan and then, 13 years ago, arrived at Arsenal. His tenure has been little short of revolutionary.
However nothing has been easy and, speaking before the weekend, he revealed what he has had to learn.
"I would say the biggest lesson I have learned in life is rigour," he said. "Discipline, discipline and discipline again.
"I have learnt that no one has enough ability to live off it alone. It does not go far and a life without work goes nowhere.
"I have also learnt humility. Sometimes you think at 40 you know it all but I have found out everyone can be right in football. Someone not in the job can say something completely stupid and they can be right."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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'"This isn't in reference to Terry or anybody else, but we get inquiries on the team — a number per year — and someday one of these rumors is going to be true," Quinn said. "So far, the last four or five years it hasn't. We've just adopted a policy where we don't comment. It has nothing to do with Terry. It's just a uniform policy."'
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Her big break came at 13, however, when the pop star Meja held a workshop at Robyn's school and heard her sing her song about her parents. In 1994, Meja got her a record contract with Sweden's Ricochet Records, which released her debut single, You've Got That Somethin' and the hit Do You Really Want Me (Show Respect). Though she was still only 16, Robyn began recording her debut album in 1995 with producers Max Martin and Denniz Pop and co-songwriters Ulf Lindström and Johan Ekhé. The results, Robyn Is Here, quickly topped the Swedish charts. When the album was released in the U.S. almost a year and a half later, the single Do You Know (What It Takes) hit the Top Ten, as did Show Me Love. She was set to support the Backstreet Boys on their 1997 tour, but she had to pull out of the shows due to exhaustion. In 1998 Robyn began work on her second album, My Truth, which was released the following year in Europe, where Electric was a smash hit single. However, Robyn's U.S. label didn't feel that America would respond to My Truth as it was, and suggested that she re-record parts of the album. She refused, and the album was not released in the States. Robyn also became a UNICEF ambassador in 1999 and traveled the world for two years.
She returned to music by contributing "Say You'll Walk the Distance" to the On the Line soundtrack, and moved from RCA to Jive for her 2002 album, Don't Stop the Music, which ended up being a Swedish-only release; only the album's singles were released in Europe. Despite the album's limited release, other artists covered songs from it, including Beverley Knight, who released a version of "Keep This Fire Burning." Disheartened by her continuing label troubles, Robyn returned to Stockholm in 2003, where she heard the Knife's debut album, Deep Cuts. She was so impressed by the duo's experimental, futuristic synth pop that she collaborated with them on her next single, Who's That Girl. However, her label didn't like the track and instead released 2004's Robyn's Best in the U.S. and another compilation in Sweden.
Robyn bought herself out of the rest of her contract, formed her own label, Konichiwa, in 2005, and collaborated with the Knife, the Teddybears STHLM's Klas Åhlund, and Alexander Kronlund. The single Be Mine and her self-titled fourth album arrived later that year and earned several Swedish Grammys, including Best Album, Best Female Pop Artist, and Best Songwriter (which she shared with Åhlund). Robyn continued to gain momentum in 2006, appearing on Basement Jaxx's Crazy Itch Radio and releasing the Rakamonie EP, a collection of covers and alternate takes. Robyn was released in the U.K. in 2007, as was the single Konichiwa B**ches. The ballad "With Every Heartbeat" really reestablished Robyn in the U.K., reaching number one on the singles chart that summer. Rakamonie was finally released in the U.S. in early 2008, and Robyn was scheduled for a U.S. release that spring. She began working on new material that year, choosing Diplo, Klas Åhlund, and Röyksopp as some of her collaborators.
Early in 2010, the single Fembot arrived, along with the news that Robyn would release not one album that year but two short ones, beginning with Body Talk, Pt. 1, which was released that June. Three months later, Body Talk, Pt. 2, which featured the single "Hang with Me" and a collaboration with Snoop Dogg, arrived. In November 2010, Body Talk, which compiled tracks from the previous mini-albums plus new songs, appeared. After spending a couple of years touring with acts including Katy Perry and Coldplay, and collaborating with the Lonely Island and Snoop Dogg, Robyn returned with new material in 2014. A collaboration with longtime friends Röyksopp, the Do It Again mini-album blended the best elements of both parties' music. More collaborations followed in 2015, including appearances on releases by Neneh Cherry (Blank Project) and Kindness (Otherness). Love Is Free, a dance-oriented EP with La Bagatelle Magique (aka keyboardist Markus Jägerstedt and producer Christian Falk) arrived in August 2015, a year after Falk's death from pancreatic cancer. ~ Heather Phares & John Bush
Selected Discography
Track List: My Truth
Track List: U Should Know Better (Remix EP) (Explicit)
Track List: Call Your Girlfriend (Remixes) - EP
Track List: Body Talk
Track List: Body Talk, Pt. 3
Track List: Body Talk Pt. 2 (Explicit)
Track List: Hang With Me (Remix Single)
Track List: Body Talk Pt. 1
Track List: Dancing On My Own (Remixes)
Track List: The Cherrytree Sessions
Track List: Handle Me (The Remixes)
Track List: With Every Heartbeat
Track List: The Rakamonie EP
Track List: Robyn (Explicit)
Track List: Robyn
Track List: Don't Stop The Music
Track List: Show Me Love/Do You Know What It Takes (Single)(E-Smoove Bounce Mix Edit)(Radio Single)
Track List: Robyn Is Here
Track List: Indestructible (Remixes)
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The Lost Chart
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I seem to have misplaced a patient's chart. My office is small-- a single room and a very important closet-- and I never took it home, so I know it's somewhere. I've searched every pile, I've gone through the file drawers twice, thumbing each and every file folder along the way. It will show up, I've misplaced charts before and they always show up, usually wedged into another chart or fallen through the hanging files, so I'm not actually worried, it's just the frustration of knowing it has to be there and it isn't.
There's nothing too crucial in this particular chart; if the patient shows up before the chart (and right now, that's a distinct possibility), it will be fine-- I remember her story, remember her meds, there are no irreplaceable consultants' notes, no labwork to be tracked down, it's just the idea: a medical record shouldn't be misplaced, though it happens all the time in clinics, but this is a single office, just me, it has to be there.
First, a little about the patient*. Ms. G first consulted me a couple of years ago. Her previous psychiatrist had moved away, she was down and wanted to resume the medication she'd found helpful, and her life was a mess. By the second appointment, she'd compiled a type-written list of what she wanted to change (oops, that list is in the missing chart). The list was four pages long. She came to a few sessions and then disappeared, calling once to ask for a refill, and then who knows? I wondered, I may have even called and left a message, or maybe I didn't (I probably didn't document "calling to ask how you are" so not in the missing chart). Time went by, well over a year, and she called to request an appointment.
"I want to resume therapy. I'm ready now." I asked what had transpired in the intervening seasons. Things had gotten much better. She'd left the dysfunctional relationship that was causing her so much discomfort. She is seeing a nice guy who treats her well. She stopped (well, almost) smoking pot. "I really didn't like that you thought I had a problem with it," she said. She'd quit (well, almost) to prove me wrong. I'll take it.
I listened.
"So," I said after enough listening (well, almost), "let me get this straight. You're smoking less, you've gotten out of that hellish relationship, you've met someone new and wonderful, you're feeling much better."
"And," I continued "you did this all on your own without psychotherapy, and now that everything is going well, you want psychotherapy?"
She laughed. We set a schedule, and other than a misplaced chart, the sessions are going well.
This afternoon, I scoured the office again. Maybe it's with my dead charts, I thought. I keep charts for patients whom I haven't seen in years, and don't expect to ever see again, in a separate drawer, but I keep them, because I've learned that no chart is really dead, people pop up when I least expect them. I'd been in that drawer recently to dust off the chart of a patient who showed up after a four-year absence.
There' s something hard about going through the dead chart drawer. I'm hit with names of people I don't recall, names that don't even sound familiar. I never pick them up to see, maybe this was someone I saw only once ten years ago, maybe it was someone I saw as coverage for another doctor. Or I see a name and it jogs my memory for a person or a story I'd long ago forgotten. What's the hardest though, is seeing the charts of those patients I'd seen for years, people I knew intimately, and wondering what became of their lives. Some of them disappeared from therapy without an explanation, or even if their was an explanation--maybe never clearly articulated but understandable, like a change in their health insurance or simply being tired of commuting an hour and a half each way to come to appointments-- I'm left wondering where they went, why, how they feel about the therapy they never ended, if they left angry, tired, or simply stale. Some of them, I know (ah, I've learned to call people who just disappear) simply tapered away when they felt better; they hadn't meant the last appointment to be the last, but simply felt the work was done. So there's the chart of the woman with really really bad OCD whose son died during her treatment and the horror of that night, of that phone call, rushes back at me. And there's the chart of the young man who was tormented by his inability to fall permanently in love (he was so young, the story hadn't yet been told), it's been years, he'd be in his early thirties by now: I wonder he'd ever married. Or the gentleman who got lost enroute to the first session at my new office, and after years of therapy had never come back. When I last called him, he sounded awful; he'd be in his late eighties by now, and I feel sad to think that he's possibly been dead a good long time. A book he gave me sits on my shelf. And there is the chart of man who left treatment to pursue something a bit fringy-- I'd heard his new psychiatrist lost his license, read in the paper that his wife had died and had, years after last seeing him, gotten a phone call one morning to hear his intoxicated and distressed voice, just calling to say hello. And finally, there's the chart of a patient who left angry, and of another who also left angry, and I'm left wondering how many others left with bad feelings.
Sometimes it's simply like the projector broke in the middle of the movie and I just want to know how the stories turned out. Other times, it's like looking at photos of my children when they were toddlers-- good things, good memories, but something about it is inexplicably painful.
The dead file drawer is hard. And Ms. G's file was not to be found.
(*Not her real name. Note the patient details are all obscured; I am mostly real.)


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You can mark the position of the colored half of the insulator on the outside of the plug w/a sharpie, then screw the plug back in the head (same plug/same hole it was in). Note the position of the witness mark you made, it'll be biased towards one of the two valves.
Reading spark plugs based on the Odom text, you can basically ignore the General spark plug info section below the info on reading plugs.
There is an excellent article titled "Tuning an Engine by the Spark Plug.
by Brian Odom", which states in part:
"When tuning a performance engine the spark plug is a important tuning tool. Being that there are many different tuning techniques, I will keep this article about the basics of spark plug reading on a Quarter-Mile Drag Strip (or wide-open-throttle tuning).
When tuning by the spark plug, you must always use a NEW plug to get an accurate reading.
To get a clean plug reading the engine should be shut down after the run and towed back to the pits.
Any running of the engine after that will skew the plug reading.
When tuning by the spark plug, you must always remember there are two major variables at play (air fuel ratio and ignition timing).
To make it easier to determine your on the right track when tuning, make small incremental changes and only 1 or 2 changes at a time."
To read more, go to http://honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=3063102
Check it out, some good info here.
|As far as half the porcelain showing, is it possible that the plug is not facing the exhaust valve? When installing the plugs change them around so the strap is open slightly toward the exhaust valve. If it is totally facing the intake you may get the symptom you are describing.
IMO, in a older (pre-1995) GM engine, you should choose the ACDelco spark plug heat range recommended by the auto manufacturer but convert the ACDelco heat range to a another brand. I quit using the fake ACDelco Rapidfire #1 spark plugs and installed Denso PTF16TT platinum spark plugs. The Denso PTF16TT spark plugs have a similar heat range as the ACDelco RapidFire #2 platinum and ACDelco R45TS copper spark plugs. I used the Denso PTF16TT spark plugs but I felt that they were too hot, even for stop and go driving, because they were pure white when I checked them after the first 4,000 miles after the engine rebuild. I switched to Denso PTF20TT which the step colder. I have not checked those yet. My TBI engine seems to be running lean after the engine rebuild so that may be why the plugs were pure white after 4,000 miles.
Worn out engines, highly modified engines (such as mine) and engines used in the higher echelons of racing require the plugs to be checked and replaced more often.
I prefer platinum fine wire center electrode spark plugs because I want to change spark plugs as few times as possible in a congested engine compartment. I expect the Denso PTF20TT platinum spark plugs would last for 60,000 miles in a good engine but I will change them at 20,000 miles whether they need it or not. Another feature I like about Denso PTF20TT platinum/titanium tip spark plugs is the price...$3.00 each including shipping.
|454 Made in Flint
So which plugs are recomended
I find all this new info on spark plugs enlightening, and thought provoking. I used to just ask for "stock big block OE replacements" The parts guy fiddles with their computer and comes back with 8 autolite, delco, or champions depending on the store. Gap em to.045 and snug em in with anti seize. I never really thought into it much, until now. Now Im thinking, "ok lets read the plugs and decide which way to go" How do you know when to go up or down with heat range or plug gap. Black is rich, tan is lean and thick crusty soot is plain bad, but theres gotta be way more to it.
The difference is obvious and they did not even try to hide it. The current "offshore" ACDelco RapidFire #1 spark plugs appear to be nothing more than standard R43TS spark plugs that have been reboxed. The current versions do not have the clipped ground electrode and the center electrode is not a small wire electrode that is supposed to be the visual features of the AC-Delco RapidFire spark plugs. The AC-Delco Electronics Division that made AC-Delco batteries was salvaged when it was sold off to Johnson Controls in Plano, Texas and the battery manufacturing plants in Mexico were closed and moved into the United States.
I suspect the current "ACDelco RapidFire #1" spark plugs are nothing more than standard ACDelco R43TS spark plugs but with the premium platinum spark plug price.
In 1995, the GM AC-Delco Parts Division logo was changed to ACDelco (dropped the hyphen). That occurred after the sell-off of the GM AC-Delco Parts Division to Delphi Automotive, which has also went Chapter 11 bankrupt after the SEC filed suit for irregular accounting practices after investor lawsuits.
In 2006, Delphi closed 21 of the 29 parts manufacturing plants in the United States and Delphi was changed to DPH Holdings Corporation.
|454 Made in Flint
Im new to forums but here goes
I live in Flint, I can vouch for AC Delco and much of GM manufacturing being reduced to a vast toxic field of rubble and a city in chaos. I cant really say if plugs made by outsourced plants and foreign workers are inferior or not, but my mildly cammed and built 454 still prefers OE plugs to the aftermarket Accell ones, I pulled them and went back to original because it just didnt feel right, once I got em out THEY WERE COMPLETELY CAKED IN TAN SOOT. Went back to OE Autolite plugs because thats all they had, I hope they last, but im a welder, not an engine guru. From the look of your pictures Id say youre fine for a few thousand miles.
Tapered seat Denso Platinum electrode spark plugs may not be available for your 350 CI V8 engine. It depends on which SBC heads you are using.
Tapered seat spark platinum spark plugs were introduced for 1971- up SBC heads. They are Denso PTF-16TT (hot) or PTF-20TT (cold).
Standard seat copper electrode spark plugs with a washer are for 1970 and earlier SBC heads. The standard spark plug is Denso W20PR-U (only one heat range).
I use PTF-20TT tapered seat spark plugs in my 1991 4.3L V6 for stop and go city traffic as well as high RPM road driving. I have only changed them once since the engine was built. The were like new (white) at 4,500 miles but i changed to the colder heat range anyway. I checked three of the plugs again about 6,000 miles and they are still prefect. I will change them at 25,000 miles even though they may still be in good condition. In a grocery-getter engine in good condition, they could last for 85,000 miles. I like spark plugs that last for modern crowded engine compartments because it is not fun changing them like it was in the '60's.
Google one of the Denso websites at www.globaldenso.com and bring up the appropriate chart for the engine that uses your heads. Then click on "details" in the RH column and it will give you the specifications of the spark plug.
|Ok cool. That leads me to another question i guess... how do you decipher the denso plug numbers? Thanks!
No,no..the depth of the porcelain insulation determines the heat range. The material of the electrodes has nothing to do with the heat range. The platinum center electrode and the titanium ground electrode of the Denso TT spark plugs run cleaner due to less resistance to current flow and erosion therefore they will last longer than conventional spark plugs.
The Corvette Z06 comes with Denso (platinum) or NGK (iridium) spark plugs because they wanted nothing but the best for their high-end car. GM has not owned AC Delco Parts Division since 1999. AC Delco was changed to Delphi with manufacturing sites in 38 countries and 21 of the 29 manufacturing plants in the U.S. were closed.
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The clean side of the porcelain insulation is indexed towards intake valve. The incoming fuel/air mixture keeps the porcelain cleaned off which is normal in a wedge combustion chamber.
Get rid of the AC Delco spark plugs made in Mexico and install a set of Denso PTF-16TT spark plugs made in Japan. The Denso fine wire platinum spark plugs will run better, last longer and they are cheaper to boot. ($2.17 ea.)
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As I read the plugs, the timing mark on the strap is nearly to the base which tells me I need to back off the timing as well as the spotting on the porcelain.
They are not hot enough as there is only one full turn of threads showing color.
The carb is fat due to the soot on the ring around the carb.
I also forgot to mention that the heads are 76cc chambers.
This is all with a 160° thermostat. I need to go to a 180° which will heat things up more. I need to take that into account when selecting another plug.
The thing that still bugs me is that the porcelain is only showing color on half of it. The other half is still white. No one and no information can still explain that to me...
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Preseason All-Horizon League selections Alec Brown (Winona, Minn.) and Keifer Sykes (Chicago, Ill.) combined for 36 points on 14-of-18 shooting Saturday night and Green Bay (5-7) used a 23-7 run which spanned two halves to build a comfortable lead as the Phoenix cruised to a 72-55 win over visiting South Dakota (5-8) in non-conference men's basketball action at the Resch Center.
Brown shot 8-of-10 from the field, connecting on both of his three-point attempts, and finished the game with 19 points and eight rebounds to lead all players. The 7-foot-1 junior became the 14th player in program history to grab at least 500 career rebounds.
Sykes added 17 points on an efficient 6-of-8 shooting and a perfect 4-of-4 from the line. The sophomore point guard, playing his 29th and final game as an 18-year old, added eight assists and four rebounds to his 26th double-digit effort during that stretch.
The Phoenix, coming off a 49-47 upset victory over Marquette on Wednesday, avoided a letdown early. Brown started hot, scoring the first seven points for Green Bay as the hosts build a 7-2 lead in the first four minutes.
South Dakota, coming off a nice win of its own Wednesday against Morehead State, responded well and led 17-14 at the 10:10 mark.
Green Bay used a 12-2 run capped by Brown's second three-pointer to reclaim the lead and build its advantage to 26-19 with 4:33 to play before the half. After the Coyotes closed to 29-25, freshman Jordan Fouse (Racine, Wis.) sparked a 6-0 run to end the half as Green Bay led 35-25 at the intermission.
The run extended into the second half as the Phoenix increased its advantage to 52-32 with 12:09 remaining. Fouse, Sykes and sophomore Greg Mays (Chicago, Ill.) each scored five points during the 23-7 spurt that helped Green Bay cruise to its fourth home win of the season.
The Phoenix shot a season-high 55.3 percent from the field (26-47), including over 60 percent in the second half (14-23). The shooting percentage was the highest for Green Bay since Dec. 31, 2011 at Valparaiso.
Led by Sykes' season-high eight helpers, Green Bay had 18 assists on the night.
In support of Brown and Sykes, junior Sultan Muhammad (Grand Rapids, Mich.) scored 10 points off the Phoenix bench while Mays and Fouse had nine and seven, respectively. Mays added seven rebounds in his third-straight start as Green Bay held a 32-26 edge on the glass. Junior Kam Cerroni (Sussex, Wis.) knocked down a pair of three-pointers for six points.
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It's been said (never proven but never disproven) that people can't hear the difference between amps as long as you have correct tuning (like on an rta) to keep the freq response the same. Can't remember the guys name but he was/is a huge sq guy (worked champ competitor) that started that worth proper eqing you can't hear a difference. He did tons of bound testing where people could pick any amps they wanted. He would hook them up and adjust an eq for a flat response from all the amps. You had to listen to it then guys which amp was use during which trial. No one ever got it 100% correct and at most got 50% but with only 4 choices it was expected.
With that said I run what I prefer based on customer service, reliability, what fits the space I have, and the power I need. It just so happens Rockford guys the bill and it really helps that I can get nice discounts from a local dealer (that I recently started working at but for discounts before hand) as I was a return customer that required them at comps and randomly giving demos and sending people there.
It pays off to be a returning customer.
After reading all of this I am learning a lot about other brands that I have never heard of. Mainly because in my stereo set-up a subwoofer is just there to handle the notes that the front stage cannot produce at a moderate volume. In my system the subwoofer is there to produce the musical lows of an audio track and not to explode my head.
I appreciate the time that people put into the DB drag cars because I used to do that a long time ago. Im talking when Phoenix Gold, MTX, Orion, and the round Kicker Solobarics where the hot products. Now there are so many brands its hard to keep track of.
I like seeing the diversity of this hobby. I see a lot of conversation about 4-5k watt amplifiers that are running the subwoofers which is very very cool. And then i'm over here going "how can I put more cleaner power to my front speakers". I guess i'm on the complete opposite side of the car audio world as some people. For example some people will spend $1000 for 4 15" subwoofers and $1000 dollars on a 3k watt amp to power them. Where I would spend the same amount on 1 8" subwoofer and a 300w amplifier to drive it. Just as long as it sounds good musically.
I have found that most cheap amplifier companies lie about there power rating because they want the uneducated customer to purchase their products. I can't tell you how many times people have told me that I got ripped off because I use a $2000 amplifier that is rated at 100x4. Where I could have gotten a pyramid amp that is 100x4 and costs $90.
Anyway sorry for the rant, just thought it might have been good to get a different point of view about subwoofers and what I feel their purpose is.
Fosgate lost me when they moved from Tempe to Asia.
But hey they didn't move management.
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I hear ya. But Rockford did themselves in years ago with the hard core of car audio. Now the only thing most anyone 'in the know' will buy from them is an amp, which Stetsom completely wipes rf off the face of the planet when it comes to performance, so their amps and subs are easily blown away at shows regularly. No rf koolaid for me.
Btw, they HAD to come out with something big and new, because noone in the serious car audio world buys their crap hardly. Their amps may 'do their rated and then some', but the numbers they 'do' are puny anyway, so not that big of a feat. Hell my amp does a full 4k at like half volume. In rf crap, 4k is like the holy grail of an amp. Their 15k is a publicity stunt. Granted they'll be glad to sell you one for 12 thousand dollars, and oh yeah, it only does 15k for 1 billionth of a sec, 4k on the regular. So now you just spent 12 gs for a steady 4k. Other brands laugh at those numbers. But you know that, you're just enchanted by rf's new shiny stuff. Keep in mind rf is pricey, not all that awesome anymore stuff, with marginal abilities. 50 cars at the last show I competed at, not one rf anything.
Most high excursion subwoofers can't reach full xmax (which is actually only truly measured as one way linear) before reaching their thermal limits.
As far as pricing on Rockford stuff, a returning customer to a local dealer can easily receive discounts of up to 40-50%. Sure its still spendy for their higher end subs. Specially the new ones sure for shipping soon. T2 13 & 16" models 1300-1500 t3 19" 2500 process are msrp. However if you can get a 40% price cut they are well worth the money. They have years of r&d, outstanding customer service, great warranties, readily available, warrants usually consist of of the shelf swaps. The tech used in the new subs I'd their own with a patent pending. Custom built and tooled motors, magnets and everything. It isn't an of the shelf part that any company can access. The coast you pay at a local dealer includes, research and development, the patents, shipping, warranty, quality control, build cost, employee cost, insurance, electricity, water, heating, lease/rent, building equipment, shipping, customer service, and of course after all that they need to pay their own bills, put food on their tables and clothes on their back.
Yes the product cost more but they have a lot to cover and still have to make money. That is business. Online dealers have less over head then local dealers and can supply product to a wider range of consumers. They can buy bigger bulk amounts because the higher amount of possible customers and sell for less due to less overhead. You also have to pay for shipping, pay for two way shipping on warranty, wait for shipping which for warranties can take a few weeks to a few months, no face to face customer service, less chance to hear/see the product in person and most online companies are not authorized dealers and don't give the same warranty as the company that makes the product.
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|Yo! If you want killer subs man for less than that mainstream rockford stuff, get Tantric HDDs. Tjat's gonna be my next subs for sure when these soloxs give up the ghost. Tantric makes HDDs in 8"-24" I already spoke to Murphy about the 24s. The HDD has ~106mm p-p 4Xmm one way linear. Way better xmech than any of the other companies with 'super woofers'. I have enjoyed these soloxs though. They have taken a great deal of 6000W abuse and the coils still look new! I've got at least a thousand hours on these coils. The xmech on them is really high, around 88mm I think the Kicker tech told me. They do 28 one way linear. My bl factor is 39.2! :p
Take a breath everyone.
I've been solely a SQ for 25 yrs. SPL before that.
Maybe its just me but I would have to see it to believe it. I'm not saying kicker can't get down, I know it can. I just personally don't believe things without some sort of proof. When it comes to numbers I only look at sealed up on the dash or at the headrest scores. No one listens to music by their feet or with a door open.
I'm personally waiting f for the new Rockford stuff that is to be shipped during and after CES this year.
5000 peak
Single voice coil 1 & 2 ohm versions available
Also available in a 13"
2 different places are demoing and testing them for Rockford. McCain mobile audio and low note garage. Both of them have 2 16" on 2 2500.1 doing insane hair tricks. They are the real deal with a shipping weight of 100 lbs, sub itself is said to be at about 88-90 lbs
They also have a w while new line. T3 series, don't know what all they have coming for those but they do have a 19" sub with a neo motor and 5" voice coil. Don't know the rms rating but it has 70mm x max peak to peak 35mm one way. They are calling it their first super woofer.
One of the 16" has a future in my hatch with a 2500.1bdcp.
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But watch out for L7s and solo xs they SOMETIMES can kill other people with very high end brand stuff all at shows. I see it all the time. Never under estimate an l7 lol. I saw a guy do a 165 with 1 L7 12 in an extreme vehicle, I shit you not. I personally just beat a guy at the last contest that had a pair of sundown 18s in a walled kia with about 300 sq in. of port. He had 4 batts and about 5k. I have no batts, no wall, no actual box, only 1 0/1 running from my batt to the back. I got him by almost 1.5dB. ;) My rig plays the full sub spectrum very very well too, from 65hz down to 20s, great for any music, even slowed down stuff.
Also the only 4 12s walled daily driver car thats in the 160s in the whole iasca or usaci circuit is a guy using 4 solox 12s.
Another guy in usaci does 150.2 with 2 cvr 12s and 322 Watts! I guess my point is, you can get killer output from kicker's higher end stuff if you are good at car audio. Im definitely not saying kicker is 'awesome' or anything, just be careful to think you'll easily win against a guy who's good at car audio who has some kicker shtuff.
But otherwise, I'm sure we would agree on most all brands. You are obviously into car audio as myself, so I know you know what good sht is. I agree with your statement I quoted too :p When I'm finally bored of playin with these solos, I'm gonna go with Tantric.
Just wanted to say watch out for muhfuggers with kicker! Lololol
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Lukasz Fabianski is back in business after missing the second half of last season with a shoulder problem.
The Polish goalkeeper suffered the injury during the warm-up against Manchester City in January but still took his place between the posts and kept a clean sheet against Roberto Mancini's side at Emirates Stadium.
Wojciech Szczesny replaced his compatriot for the cup games that followed and, at the time, Fabianski was hoping to return within a matter of weeks. But in early February he underwent surgery to cure the problem and was ruled out for the remainder of the season.
"I damaged cartilage and that was really irritating the shoulder," Fabianski told Arsenal.com. "They had to clear it and, because it was a bit loose, they had to tighten it up.
"I could play [against Manchester City] but three hours after the game I started to feel it.
"When I did it, I felt a massive pain in my shoulder but then it was gone after one minute. I started to move it around and it seemed to be OK.
"The day after, I didn't train and we played in the FA Cup and Carling Cup so I wasn't really involved in that. Then I tried to train but I dived once and that was it. But now everything feels fine."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Robin van Persie has heaped praise on left-back Andre Santos for his bright start to life at Emirates Stadium.
The Brazilian defender has featured heavily since his move from Fenerbahce in the summer, slotting into the side seamlessly in the absence of Kieran Gibbs.
Van Persie has been impressed with Santos' impact on the Arsenal first team, likening him to former Brazil international Roberto Carlos.
"When he first arrived I remember him saying he'd need five or six games to get his fitness up before things would really kick off for him," the striker told Arsenal.com.
"It was true - he's grown stronger and fitter in every single game, and what I really like about him is his confidence on the ball.
"He's firstly a left-back, but he's so much more than that - he gets the ball to his feet, plays one-twos, looks after the ball with style and plays a bit like Roberto Carlos.
"He knows how to choose between holding his defensive position and going forward - and when he goes, he is committed. I love his play.
"I remember a couple of weeks ago playing not just a one-two but a one-two-three-four with him, and that's the kind of thing you enjoy. It's a joy to play with him because he loves football, loves finding solutions, and I don't really see full-backs as confident as Andre in other teams.
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Greetings. I would like to take up language translator as a career. I am currently working as an HR executive in Chennai, started just 6 months ago. I have no plans of moving out of Chennai or India in the near future. So if I am to learn any foreign language that will enhance my career, what would be a wise choice?
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Deepika Gupta | 19/11/2016
Stick to HR executive, its slow but steady and future is good. Being translator is good but no future growth as you will remain translator.
Ritu Singh | 20/11/2016
Hi Preethi, there is lot of scope of foreign languages in India too. And being a translator is very wise decision if have interest and command over two languages one foreign and one Indian. There are many job prospects and opportunities for bilingual people. You can join embassy, MNC's, Indian defence services, NGO's like UN, UNICEF, etc. Skilled translators are highly valued in many private and public sectors.
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I guess u should learn french
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same word in different language
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original = the first, as opposed to the reproduction/copy which came later (the original painting, an original idea, etc) originel = related to the origins, the very beginning (original sin, the original habitat of a species, etc.)
whats are basic utilities of learning so-called foreign languages ? ?
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The basic utility of these "so called" foreign languages is to test your ability to learn other than your mother language as human. Language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so, and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics. Once learners realize how a foreign language works and how things are conceptualized in foreign culture, they may see their native language and culture in a different light because they realize that there are different words and ways to talk about & deal with certain topics.Thus, via the alienating effect of realizing how the foreign language or culture works, one may also arrive at a more realistic view of one's own language or culture.
Hi All, I have completed my BCA (regular) & M.sc IT in Correspondence.I work in MNC. I am not satisfied with my current financial situation. I am interested to do some personal business or teaching side (not on studies department). Interested in some other sector (extra curricular activities). So, Which is best course to learn (Any foreign Language), or which field I have to choose for more pay. I m Interested to live with low work pressure environment.Any ideas Pls welcome ... Pls dont make funny
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You can create your profile here on UrbanPro as a tutor, and check what are the coaching you can give. This is very helpful portal, and you might be helpful for others. For foreign language, you should take some certification course and then do the training. If you can teach check there are many intitutions which has BCA course, see if you can take some subjects, as you also did MSc in IT, may be you can do more effectively.
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I'd like your thoughts on the subject of prostration. When I attend my local Buddhist center for meditation, I do the 5 point prostration 3 times to the triple gem before meditation. As a matter of respect. I learned the value and meaning of this by practicing at a Sri Lankan monastery a little bit. However I feel that maybe this makes people in my Buddhist Center a little disturbed since no one else does this except the monks and me. My center is Sri Lankan, but the attendees are more...I don't know..Western secular and people come there saying they are there for some benefit like stress reduction and things like this.
I wonder if I'm putting off newcomers when they arrive and see me prostrating. I remember there was a time when I was new to the teachings when if I saw a Westerner prostrating toward the Buddha, I would have thought they were worshiping him like a god, and would have thought that was a little fruity and be put off by this. I don't want to drive people away from the Center and turn them off, however I know that I would have never learned the value of the practice if I hadn't seen people doing it and learned.
So, what is Clear Comprehension here? To save the prostration for the home and monastery visits only, or continue doing this in the Buddhist Center too, risking turning people off to attending, but setting an example where maybe people will learn the value like I did?


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Lutz flies out to right. Still scoreless.
Glad to see Lutz' development progressed by the experience of flying to right there. Very helpful to the organization.
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Beltran - Reds killer
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1-0 Cards. Dinger Beltran.
Beltran is locked in. Seems like every time I watch him he is locked in.
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Scariest part about that, it may be enough to beat us.
Rounding third and heading for home...
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On July 7 and 8, pro lacrosse player Kyle Harrison teamed up with Nike, STX Lacrosse, Powerade and Influence Marketing to bring a rising sport -- lacrosse -- to an untapped neighborhood: Harlem and its famous St. Nicholas Park. The idea of the event was originally conceived by Influence Marketing and Team HUNC (standing for "Harlem's Up-and-Coming"), which exposes kids in the community to sports and new activities.
On both days, Harrison hosted camps to provide a total of roughly 100 kids, ages 8-15, hands-on instruction, such as skills and athletic training. Harrison also provided new perspectives about lacrosse, including current opportunities to get involved, in order to emphasize the sport can one day grant them entrance into college and enhance their future accomplishments on and off the field. During the clinics, Nike showcased their Vapor Strobe Training eyewear.
In addition to Harrison, there were a couple of seasoned lacrosse coaches participating in the two-day event, which was also designed to raise awareness for the fastest-growing team sport in the country. There are now 250,000 youth participants nationwide and lacrosse is being played at more than 600 colleges and 2,000 high schools. The sport is even going global with teams throughout Europe, Australia and parts of Asia. Lacrosse's increased popularity in the past few years, especially in the New York and New Jersey areas, represents a great opportunity for inner-city youth to get involved, now.
About Kyle Harrison
Kyle Harrison is a professional lacrosse player on the LXM PRO Tour. He was on the U.S. Team, and the ?rst pick in the 2005 Major League Lacrosse draft by the former New Jersey Pride after an impressive collegiate career at Johns Hopkins University, where he was a three-time All-American -- twice earning first-team accolades. Kyle earned the McLaughlin Award as the nation's top collegiate mid?elder in 2004 and 2005 and received the Tewaaraton Award, given to the national player of the year after leading the Blue Jays to the 2005 NCAA Championship. He was also named the USILA Player of the Year following his senior campaign. Overall, while at Johns Hopkins, Kyle led them to a remarkable 55-6 record and their ?rst national title in 18 years.
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Nike, Inc. is the world's largest seller of athletic footwear and apparel. The company employs more than 33,000 people globally, including more than 5,500 at its worldwide headquarters in Beaverton, Ore. Nike sells products in more than 180 countries around the globe and it reported revenues of $19.2 billion for the fiscal year ending May 31, 2009.
About STX Lacrosse
STX is a global sporting goods leader in the sports of lacrosse, field hockey and golf. With its 1970 introduction of the first synthetic lacrosse head, STX ushered in the modern era of what is now the fastest growing team sport. Based in Baltimore, the home of lacrosse, STX has been universally recognized for innovation in product design and development. STX continues to strive for new performance standards in sporting goods equipment at the highest levels of competition.
About Influence Marketing
Influence Marketing is a sports culture and lifestyle marketing agency with a core focus on innovative consumer engagements that connect the brand and consumer in an authentic space. The company's value lies in being a proactive think tank to connect the dots and deliver premium opportunities for clients to influence and engage.


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I don't know about you guys, but I became sick of buying batteries for my headlamps.
Every time I turned around, there I was replacing them. Since I now don't use my mechanical decoy any more, I thought I would take the battery from it, and use it in my headlamp since it's rechargeable.
Since I have a little Tim Taylor in me I thought, "them lamps need more power" So I drilled a hole, ran the wire, silicone it shut. I filled the space where the batteries were with gas line hose; I ran the wire though the center of the gas hose.
At the end of the wire I placed two EYE connections, bent them to make a 90-angle one pos, one neg.
I placed a switch at the battery, right near the Female connections that slid over the Male connections on the battery, by taping it to the top of the battery.
It feels great not having to buy batteries every few days I hope it can help you guys.


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Cavuto declared that Sarah Palin "was right" while discussing the survey with Fox News health editor Dr. Manny Alvarez. On-screen text labeled the surveys "new gov't-funded 'death tests.' " Alvarez claimed the tests would lead to elderly patients being denied care and concluded, "Death panel? You're looking at it. This is what they're making me do in the future."
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Seems like class A/B runs hotter but gives better sound and class D runs cooler with more distortion.
I have also read that the SQ of the newer class D amps are just as good as the A/B amps.
I am wondering if I could get by with a class D amp under the rear floor of my '11 hatch since there is very little if any ventilation .but am concerned about the SQ.
I could go A/B under the passenger seat but worry about it getting kicked by passengers.
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CHAPEL HILL - Coming off of a victory in its exhibition game, the JV Tar Heels were looking to take away another big win and got one, 86-76 over Milligan on Friday.
An accelerated first half displayed the kind of game the team was looking for, with the Tar Heels in the lead 41-28 at the break.
The same could not be said for the second half of the game as Milligan, a heavy three-point shooting team, closing the double-digit gap between it and the Tar Heels. Coach C.B. McGrath said that the team's mindset was not as focused.
It was up to the four veteran members of the team to put a spark back into the team. Sophomore Sasha Seymore was readily available to take the position of leader on the court. A second-year player, Sasha picked up the pace for the team, scoring 26 points in his 25 minutes of playing time and was 10-for-16 shooting. Sophomore Quinton Wimbish added 11 points to the Tar Heels' score.
"Last week, Learie and Kyle stepped up as leaders, and I guess it was my turn to do so this week," Sasha said.
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"We have a shootaround practice tomorrow. We need to give one hundred percent in practice and bring that to Sunday's game," Sasha said.
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I agree that if you are going to use a blower, that you should rebuild the motor for it. I know that some of the smaller roots type blowers are made for stock compression motors, they will add around 100-150 hp at 6 lbs of boost on pump gas. For the price though, I would take the motor out and change the heads and cam. I would look into the 265cc AFR oval heads with CNC ported chambers and then get a different hyd roller cam and intake. I would guess that you would gain close to the same hp with this setup as you would with the stock motor and blower. Also, this way, you would not have to be concerned about the motor detonating, you would also be able to run 87 octane if you wanted to because of having aluminum heads. If you were interested in doing this, I would call AFR and talk to them, those heads have a slightly raised eshaust port, but from what they say most exhaust systems still fit.
If I were going to add a blower I`d rebuild it, with that kind of miles on it, it`s a time bomb waiting to go off.
Even since it`s been well maintained, miles are miles, wear occurs. If it were mine I would just add a new timing chain and a RV camshaft, I`d also add headers and a free flowing exhaust system, spiral core plug wires and the best ignition parts you can afford, add a K&N filter, royal purple lube in the rear diff to lower rolling resistance, possibly a TBI spacer. These mods would be much cheaper than adding a blower, and you`d pick up lots of torque and get better mileage.
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I have a 454 7.4 TBI v8 in my 1ton pickup the motor is sound no smoke no noise no problems, right now it has 108,359 miles on it. The problem is the motor is a dog especially when I am towing (no power). I am thinking about putting a blower on it what type of blower would you recommend roots or whipple twin screw for my application and how much boost would I be able to run without causing damage to the motor and not having to do internal mods to the rotating assembly?
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