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Mike, I just wanted to let you know that I successfully installed the ammeter and it works great. Evidently I am charging and there are no problems since I installed my new R/R. All your advice and guidance was solid and correct. The ammeter is very helpful. I do like seeing my charging in real time. I really like it. I want to thank you for your willingness to help me, in return, I will help whoever I can, when I can with what I've learned from you. Thanks for being a teacher at heart. P.S. Don't be surprised if I show up on your email doorstep again scratching my head about some problem I'm having.
John Hegstrom
I've been slowly doing everything you recommend in your "Optimizing.." Article, and it's fun and it's working. The most impressive thing I've done so far is buy and use the dwell meter. What a difference! A couple of times I'd gotten the gaps close. Now they're bang on and that certainly makes a noticeable difference.
Bill Brown, Jr.
Canada
I really enjoy your site and the section For Your Information is particularly interesting.
Chris Robertson
I will be sending my whole local chapter of the VJMC your link. More people need to learn great information like yours. Thanks again.
Bill Powers
I work for a Nissan dealer in Akron, OH, but I also teach
classes (automotive engineering) at Stark State College, in North
Canton. As a teacher I am always looking for sources outside of textbooks to relay to my students. Performance areas are especially great because they pique the interest of the class. Your articles get them to think beyond just the nuts and bolts, and start them thinking about "why." I found your articles to be very well written, and the text easy reading for the majority of my class. Thanks!
Kevin Murphy
Fred Martin Nissan
I read your article “Three Secrets of High-Perf. Engine Building” which I enjoyed very much. While I’ll never be able to take advantage of the information, I find it very interesting to know what is going on as I push an engine sometimes a little enthusiastically. Thank you.
Gary L. Brooks
You probably don't remember me. But I was one of your students at MMI, and you made a impression on me that will last a lifetime. You imparted skills to me that I use almost daily, and try to pass on to my helpers. My shop hovers amid the weird and the odd every day, and that's just the bikes that find me! But I love it! Feel good that you helped me find the path that I lead.
Fred Cousins
Triple O Service
Hello, Mike. I just wanted to let you know how grateful I was for you to have put on the Web so much practical, useful information gleaned from your years of experience working on motorcycles. As an amateur Honda mechanic for my, ummm, six or seven Honda motorcycles, I'm sure I will find much to help me in the future.
JZH
Awesome info, thanks for your efforts and time. Any chance on completing the parts that aren't complete?
B. D. Ward
Thanks MIke, I really like the well written, never condescending tone of your articles and information. This is asopposed to much of the blogosphere where the least articulate seem to have the most to say.
Jack Terpstra
Excellent, Mike. I'm very impressed. That little tease on Carburetion was kind of cruel, though. It's a great, simple explanation of the elements, and much more readable than the Haynes version of the same. But the note says the rest of the chapters aren't available yet. So, just exactly when can we start ordering copies of that book? I need one for myself, and a couple more for some buddies, so they don't grease mine up like they did the Honda Common Service manual! Thanks, and congratulations on some great material.
Brent Evered
Canada
Thanks for your wonderful website. It's been a great help.
Kurt
I was two hours late for work today! I found your web site during my morning coffee/surf...I forwarded to four of my now very grateful friends. The info is GOLD! The wire color codes AWESOME. I build hotrod Hondas and use factory parts from different bikes and eras, your color guide has opened my eyes...an amazing site.
Bill Powers
Good article on porting I learned a lot. I am an aerospace engineer, so I completely understand the concept of boundary layer affect. I just wanted to note that skin friction is much less than pressure drag. In the case of engine heads it wouldn't matter. Wings aren't smooth any more because that wouldn't stay that way for long anyway do to contact. They use to be smooth. We worry more about separation "pressure drag" than the skin friction. For the particular case of engine heads you are right on though. Kick ass man.
James Browning
Washington
Hello Mr. Nixon. I am very impressed with your site, lots of great information.
René Zwart
Scotland
Dear Mr. Nixon: Thank you very much for publishing the outstanding information about automotive technology theory on your web site! I am reading some of your articles and have really learned a lot!
Sherrill E. Watkins
Mike, thanks for a great article. Usually performance articles are so vague that they have little value. Not yours.
Thanks. It's too bad I can't get our sprint car drivers to read and understand this. It might save a small fortune in wasted effort with engine building.
Jim Martin
Man o man, way to go....don't think ive ever read anything so honest or helpfull....thanks!
Matt Catley
Mike, just a short note to say thank you for writing and making available your articles on engine building and design. I`ve been building motors for years for myself and have read many many books and articles. Yours was extremely well written and interesting to read. I hope to put it to use in helping me extract a bit more rpm and perhaps HP from my Moto Guzzi land speed racer.
Bill Ross
I've read your website, particularly the 'sacred cows - pipe jetting' section, and it's really interesting. I have one of the new Triumph Bonnevilles, and have been an active member of the Triumph RAT forum, where almost all the talk is of re-jetting, free flowing exhausts and modifying airboxes to acheive amazing power increases. Certain mods are now considered essential to make the bike run 'properly'. I've always wondered about the so called w isdom of this, and so your article hit a chord with me. Having tried Truimph's own aftermarket pipes and jets, I decided to go back to totally stock - which would save the hassle of changing back to stock pipes for the UK MoT test each year. At the same time I decided to install a DynoJet Stage 1 kit, and was surprised that the bike seemed better with just this than with the aftermarket exhuast. In fact changing back to these seemed to make no real difference other than an increase in noise! Your website has now explained why this is the right feeling. I'm glad I read it. Great site! :-) Cheers.
Dave Brown, UK
Hi Mike, been reading lots of your short articles on your web-site! Be glad you're not my next-door neighbour! I'd be bugging you non-stop! But I'd sure have a sweet runnin' CBX! Reading your stuff has really made me rediscover my passion for my bike!
Ian
Hello, Mike. I just wanted to let you know how grateful I was for you to have put on the Web so much practical, useful information gleaned from your years of experience working on motorcycles.
John Holtrichter