> From: "John Pearson" <xero@CMC.NET>
> Thanks everyone for all the responces and offers for help.

> I think I will try to tone this down a little. Make it a bit easier.
> How about taking the signal from the dist. with mechanical and/or
vacume
> advance working, and proccessing that signal by adding delays. Safer
and
> less complicated.
>
> What I am trying to do is smooth out the power from my motor. The car
is a
> drag car with front engine, rear wheel drive. At well over 1hp and
1ft/lb
> torque per 10lbs weight, and street radial tires, accelerating from a
dead
> stop is very difficult. I read that pro street stock racers use timing
> computers to help with traction, and guard their curves with their
life.
> These computers are not cheap. I think they start at $700.00.
>

Do you need to tweak the timing for that?

I'm just thinking out loud here. Since you have maximum traction when
there's no wheelspin, maybe you could devise a system that compared the
rotation of the front and rear wheels and slightly backed off the
throttle if it detected any slipping, checked again and backed off if...
etc.

If it detected no slipping and your foot still hard down on the pedal it
could nudge the throttle up again until wheelspin started again.

Maybe the lag of the throttle action would make this unrealistic but
until it was  banned (and after too, if the rumours are correct) Formula
One reacers used something similar (but no doubt much more complex) to
great effect at the start of races.










.