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The chapter made a trip to Appleton to experience a demonstration on a chassis dynamometer at the Extreme Performance Motorsports shop. This field trip had been organized through the efforts of Gary Wiese, owner of Automotive Specialties, Neenah, and Dan Rhodes, owner of Extreme Peformance Motorsports.

	Clintonville Beat the Heat advisor Ed Jensen provided the test car. It is a front-engine dragster powered by a 540 cubic inch big block Chevrolet.
	The car is tied down to the dynamometer and thoughts are exchanged on how to connect the headers to the shop exhaust. With no lengthy exhaust system to cool the exhaust gases, there is concern for how the flexible hoses will withstand the exhaust heat.
	Gary Weise applies a clamp to the exhaust hose, while Ed Jensen, Terry Lorge, and Dan Rhodes connect the sensors to monitor engine RPM and air/fuel mixture.
	Prior to making a "pull," Dan, Gary, and Terry explain to the students how a dynamometer can be used to tune an engine. Gary prepared a handout for the students to follow along and estimate what the instruments would reveal.
	The dynamometer uses a computer to gather the data from the several sensors and displays the results on the screen. This screen indicates some of the sensor measurements. Other screens display the RPM/torque curves and the resulting horsepower on a chart. Several charts can be superimposed so that several "pulls" can be compared.
	The computer console is operated by Scott Bristol (black hat), while Dan Rhodes sits in the car and operates the throttle and monitors engine conditions.

Altogether, 5 advisors and 16 students participated in this educational field trip.

The Clintonville Chapter of Northeast Wisconsin Beat the Heat is very appreciative of Dan Rhodes and Scott Bristol at Extreme Performance Motorsports and Gary Wiese of Automotive Specialties for giving up most of a Saturday so our students may benefit.

Thanks for a great day!

Terry Lorge
Clintonville Police Dept
50-A 10th Street
Clintonville, WI 54929
715-823-3117