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  • David Billington13 October 2026

    Battery power in kWh equates to the size of the petrol tank, the charging kW equates to the rate at which you fill the tank.

    For perspective 1hp = 745.7 Watts, 1PS = 735.5 Watts. It would get even more complicated if we started talking about Joules.

  • B W Wood13 October 2026

    Does anybody have a good drawing/photo with measurements of a YA radiator support bracket. My YA has a home made one, I have a spare TD one that looks similar, but is to wide to fit in U shaped crossbeam on chassis. I think I can cut it down but would like some accurate measurements.

    Regards Bernie

  • Jeremy MkIII13 October 2026

    Thanks David.
    It is confusing Jan. From David's link it seems kW is power and kWh is energy. But the battery 'power' is described by its energy ie in kWh.

  • Dave O'Neill 213 October 2026

    Guy

    The WSM figure for the MGB is 180 lb/ft, so quite tight.

    If you look at the thread in the technical section and follow the link to the MGAguru website, it makes for interesting reading.

  • anamnesis13 October 2026

    Do AI models reason or regurgitate?

    "Last month, I wrote a piece here in Big Think suggesting that the public is in denial over the emerging power and associated risks of AI. Many people reacted defensively, insisting that today’s AI systems are nothing more than “stochastic parrots” that regurgitate memorized information and are structurally incapable of emergent reasoning. I appre...

  • anamnesis13 October 2026

    Nice one Dave.

    Can you get botulism from a can of worms? 🤣🤣.

    Racing often requires a number of enhanced or different spec's. But on the road they're not needed.

    Spridgets have driven a collective of millions of miles, with the hub nut done up 'tight'. In my 49 years of ownership, in well over 300k miles, using stilsons to do up my rear hub nuts, I've never had one ...

  • Dan Hiltz13 October 2026

    Can you refresh my memory. The brake light circuit closes when the button at the end of the switch comes out, correct? In other words, pressing the brake pedal causes the top of the pedal are to move away from the switch and towards the driver. When that button is NOT depressed, the circuit closes and the light comes on. Do I recall that correctly?

    Dan

  • J Targosz13 October 2026

    Isn't KWH misleading. Wouldn't a 60KWH battery provide 1KW per minute for an hour before being discharged or 2KW per minute for half an hour. Conversely if the battery was on a slow charge at 1KW per minute a full charge would take one hour or half an hour with a fast charge at 2KW per minute. The latter would need twice the amps assuming a constant voltage. So if a number of households were using...

  • anamnesis13 October 2026

    And why not Dave. 😄. Add oil sucking and we only need one more for a hay trick. Lol.

    Meanwhile. Tools.

    I think we are long past, and crazy, to keep referring to AI as a tool. AI isn't far off using US as tools.

    https://www.mi5.gov.uk/mi5-director-general-delivers-annual-threat-update

    Not only is it going to make humans redundant in many areas, reduce many peo...

  • GuyW13 October 2026

    My point wasn't that it shouldn't be tight. Or very tight, or three grunts tight. The point is that the oft quoted figure is that given for the diff pinion. I still believe that an official and verified figure was never given for the Spridget.
    Interestingly a figure was provided for the MGB which is essentially a similar design. I think (though haven't checked) that is around 60 ft lbs. Which ...

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