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bjoern
on 24 Apr : 02:06

IIRC, the front of the car is to the right in this diagram, I'm not quite sure anymore. But yes, the numbers coincide with the cylinders, so there is a way in which you can align the diagram with your engine.

Anonymous
on 23 Apr : 21:10

Hey Bjoern. I have a question about your wiring diagram on the MAF conversion. Is the diagram of the injector wiring from the top view of the engine? Because I'm guessing the injector numbers don't coinside with the cylinder numbers? Thanks

bjoern
on 13 Apr : 08:44

Awesome, thanks. Just left a comment at the article and will write a short blog post, too.

Anonymous
on 13 Apr : 07:47

They have a feature to suggest interesting stuff, though it might fit in nicely with the other stories they run.

bjoern
on 13 Apr : 07:05

Sweet! How'd you get that there?

Matthias W.
on 12 Apr : 07:08

You should be getting some traffic right now: [link]

Anonymous
on 31 Jan : 13:07

temperture location

bjoern
on 09 Nov : 10:44

Shoot me an email if there's anything specific I can do for you!

bjoern
on 09 Nov : 10:43

The auto tranny is a problem, because you have a very limited choice of computers. Unfortunately, I have no idea about auto trannies and can't help you there. Conversion to standard is a big deal and not for the faint of heart.
I bought a book on Ford EFI which I found to be very helpful and I learned a lot from it. I think it was this one:
[link]

lightning_msd
on 07 Nov : 02:56

hey bjoern, ive had your maf conversion in my favorites forever... i finally rebuilt the engine, but put in a lumpier cam, along with some other minor mods, so now basically, it runs, but with the old map sensor, not so good. thats alot of technical words, and all ive worked on up to this point is oldies with carbs and no EFI, but im learning alot and im loving it. i have one difference, but i dont think it bothers anything, i have an automatic transmission, so if i install the maf system out of a newer pickup it may want to read the e40d when i just have an aod... unless maybe i can find one with a standard transmission?? i dunno, im getting so confused with all this technology, i would like to do it step by step just as you did. can you help me somehow?

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Yet more trouble for the impact factor

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After January's double whammie for Thomson Scientific and its coveted impact factor (here and here), my favorite journal, PLoS ONE has now published a paper which spells even more trouble for the company. The authors come up with yet a new scheme of ranking journals that yields quite different ranks than the ones according to the allmighty IF. Alla Katsnelson from TheScientist has already posted on this issue, so I'll save my time and just quote from her post:

Rather than relying on an average of citations to rate a journal, the system uses a mathematical model to characterize the typical number of citations that papers in specific journals are likely to receive.
[...]
Amaral and his team looked though a database of 23 million papers published in more than 2,000 journals since 1955. The most cited paper in the pool got 200,000 citations, while half of all papers didn't get cited at all. "You have this really broad range, so the mean is a really bad measure to use," he said; if one paper in a given year receives 1000 citations, "no matter if none of the other papers have got many citations, that paper is going to change significantly the mean."
[...]
In a good ranking system, papers from higher ranked journals should have higher numbers of citations than papers from lower ranked journals most of the time -- a criterion that, according to their analysis, their system (called q) meets better than the Impact Factor, Amaral said.

Now go there and chime in with the comments already!