steve316 - racing at 63 is awesome! hoping i can get up just to pee if get there. thanks for some inspiration.
sachmo - like your perspective. i'm a doubter until i see something actually work, as well. all i can say is this. take something like durations. they have been around something like 30 years, i don't know for sure. they have been used for that long because they work. no question. that's why so many still use it today. now take time-areas, they have been around for 25+ years. i'm guessing that they work. but folks have been using them, nonetheless. now take time-areas related to bmep which has been around since about '95, does it work? i've seen the results published that use a saw motor as an example. from what i saw, its valid. have i tried any of this on a saw? the answer is no. lots of software is based on this. since that time folks have tweaked this further. i have done no tweaking. the only way to get time-areas is with calculations, a spreadsheet just lets you do these repetitive calculations easier.
maybe some folks don't understand why i have a reservation with the spreadsheet being released. something called respect. what many don't realize, working on your own motor is one thing, but working on someone else's is another. most will never be in those shoes. when you work on someone else's, you are judged only by your last build. when you wake up in the middle of the night because you can't remember if you torqued a bolt or not. then it finally hits you. i give these folks respect, and for that matter, anyone else who works on motors for a living, because they have earned it.
this thing is only a tool. it has not been through the paces. i still have some doubts. but no agenda. no agenda pro or con for anyone else either. if it doesn't work, nothing lost, nothing gained. if its not evaluated be someone who knows his ####, what good is it anyway, for anyone else??
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