Just Between You, Me, and the Cottonwood Tree: Life Lessons from the Cabin

I appreciate you moving this to the BS thread. Didn't think of that.

Not sure where this came from but... Grams per second is a mass flow rate while cfm is a volumetric flow rate. They are related by the density of air which varies by both temperature and altitude. I'll agree with @CoTacoTRD that it is more math than it's worth for my mild curiosity.

For shits and giggle I converted your reading of 1200 cfm using the equation provided by @teamhypoxia and it came to about 680 so I'm gonna go ahead and assume something is wrong there. I have no reason to believe you're flowing ~3.5x the airflow through your snorkel than I do with my k&n but I could be wrong.

 

^ and I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

 

Been playing with your football bat?

 

I didn't check any of the math because it seems I've missplaced my giveadamn but I'm guessing you'do have to figure the mass of a cubic foot of air to convert

 

See too much math. Just not gonna do it

 

Curiosity got the best of me... Using a generic value for air density (not compensating for temp, altitude, humidity, etc) 175 g/s converts to 287 cfm. Quite a difference from the 1,200 you're measuring. I've racked my brain trying to come up with an explanation for the difference but I'm coming up blank. Very interesting! It's been fun nerding out on this, don't get to do that very often these days.

EDIT: Also I must mention that the formula that @teamhypoxia provided turned out to provide a conversion factor within 8% of the conversion factor I came to. This is caused by using slightly different density values. Looks like your Google-fu powers are strong.

 

But the question still remains if Torque is using a calculated measurement of a raw measurement. As you noted earlier in the conversation you were not sure HOW your scan gauge was "calculating" the measurement so you chose to stick with the raw data. So I could be in the same situation.

 

I was curious about this too so I set up my gauge to show both the raw and calculated sensors side by side. I didn't get a chance to open up the throttle with the setup yet but under normal driving conditions the two numbers differ by a fraction of a percent. It's possible the gap will increase though as you abuse the long skinny pedal.

 

Winter might make an appearance this year, hard to say. During the winter months, I like to keep busy to stave off the cabin fever.
Some of you know I dabble a little in Model Railroading.
I thought I would document the progression of this small "N" scale layout. It will not be modeled after anything in particular, but rather a generic scene that can be used with any era of railroad.
It will be slow, and may not be finished by spring. There are however some interesting techniques used to create a certain level of realism. Suggestions are welcome too.
This particular layout board has been created and re-done twice now, that's why there is some green and the evidence of removed track and scenery. This is the third and hopefully final layout.

Track is Atlas Code 80, which is not to scale but is more forgiving during the ballast process and most can't tell the difference anyway.

the weave of cardboard is there to support the up coming plaster cloth and provide a terrain shape. The cardboard was done in the last hour before starting this post.


The track itself is a continuous loop with 4 turnouts. The turnouts will most likely be removed. This layout was actually started 4 years ago and some things will be changed to simplify it.




There may be snow on the ground before anything else happens.

 

Make it be in Tokyo.

And make a big godzilla... and I think the other thing was a fire breathing turtle or something.
And they can stomp around and smash everything.

 

Maybe it was Mothra? Wasn't there a giant fire breathing moth?

 

another method of filling in space is wadded up newspaper. Some people tape it in place, I used to then realized it was better to leave it loose and let it self form as you cover it with plaster cloth.

 

Starting to take shape. The paint is just to help seal the plaster cloth and to smooth it out a bit.

 

The mountains need an active volcano to go with the dragon.



Oh and a castle!

 

There may be plans for a crater lake, and a stream.

 

The dragon

 

Shouldn't you be building your own model train set in your old age?