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Old 12-12-2011, 02:34 PM   #501
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Well I finally received my copy of 'Scientific Design of Exhaust and Intake Systems'.

I now know why Burns has no problem revealing their 'secrets' to the world. This book is HARD to read. First off the technical issue itself with the pressure/sound waves is tough. But it is also written in "Olde Imperial Technical English". I pity the metric-trained people reading it. I have enough trouble with it and I speak "Middle Imperial Blue-Collar English". They have a unit called a 'dyne'... And 'psi' is written lbs/in^2. Argh...

Going to be a slow read.
lol, of course psi=lbs/in^2, that's the correct way to do it :P

Why are the units a problem? Units don't have anything to do with the actual physics.
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