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Old 08-27-2008, 09:00 AM   #38 (permalink)
2-Y-CHROMOSOMES
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Originally Posted by robains View Post
My buddies video is probably just fine, it's his conversion/compression skills and/or capture to PC process that is lacking. I told him to buy a MacPro

My in-car camera is a basic consumer grade Sony HD (BestBuy), nothing special. I use my MacPro with Final Cut Studio to do the capture/processing. Basically capture to uncompressed (well actually MiniDV is compressed at the source) .mov file. Do some very basic editing in FCS (didn't do any color work) and export output to .wmv -- I use this product to convert to .wmv format.

Camera is mounted to my harness with safety strap.

Phil,

Agree -- diagnostics is needed.

Car runs, initial start when cold takes some time and lots of blue smoke, I drove home at 3K rpm in 6th (about 60 mph) because I don't know what is wrong and wanted to minimize damage and didn't want to trailer it back since it seemed to run without making any noises (aka ticking) and no oil in coolant and no coolant in the oil. I have oil pressure 60-80 psi. Yes it does lack some power but I drove home slowly due to anxiety -- and as you can see from the video it will not pull above 6K rpm now.

Whatever has gone wrong is dumping oil into all 4 cylinders. Like I said earlier, more oil is dumped into the 2 outer cylinders than the 2 inner -- but oil is being dumped into all 4. I don't know enough about this motor to make heads or tails from this information.

Rob
If you need someone to follow you up to FF let me know. I can not make any promises as I have to play toddler support unit. Just let me know.
Rob, where do you live? I am near Los Gatos.
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