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Originally Posted by Rusty
I'm a control room operator in a natural gas fired power plant. I park in front of the control room, backed in. So my Z is in front of the window, with the exhaust pointed at it. When I start the Z. The control room operator on shift thinks something has gone wrong in the plant and is checking the boards to see if one of the generators has tripped off line.  The pure look of panic on his face throught the window is priceless.  Once he realizes whats going on. He mother's me for a while.  Cold starts with the LTH, 12" res, and cbe can be fun. |
haha i did this to my gf's dog this morning. i let the dog out and went to warm up the Z and on the cold start i swear the little rat jumped 4 feet in the air.
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Originally Posted by XBarbarian
OT - on the cold starts.. ( Im in FL so its never that cold..but.. heh ) the first 30 secs to 1 min... its louder.. sounds more open throat-ed.. then it quiets down.. not a rev note.. but a open throat-ed one..
can any one explain why that is? At first I imagined it was just the time to get the oil circulating.. but it almost seems like a valve is open of some sort.. then closes?
I love that open throat-ed sound! I can only imagine what its like with LTH, HFC's, and F. I. CBE!
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i'm running non-res test pipes and non-res cbe and i'm sure there's many neighbors who don't need alarm clocks anymore when i start my Z up in the garage in the morning lol