Julian Edgar, 50, has been writing about car modification and automotive technology for nearly 25 years. He has owned cars with two, three, four, five, six and eight cylinders; single turbo, twin turbo, supercharged, diesel and hybrid electric drivelines. He lists his transport interests as turbocharging, aerodynamics, suspension design and human-powered vehicles.
It’s been an exciting weekend.
It’s been an exciting weekend.
Genuinely exciting.
I have been testing one of the projects from an electronics book I am doing with Silicon Chip Publications. I’ve been selling work to Silicon Chip, an Australian electronics magazine, for a long time – in fact something like a decade. Over that period I have written many articles about car electronic systems, in addition to covering topics as diverse as electric lighting technologies and washing machines.
But what I have been testing over the weekend is all about modified cars.
It began when about six months ago I had a discussion with the publisher of Silicon Chip, Leo Simpson. He asked: how would I like to come up with all sorts of ideas for electronics projects that could be applied to high performance cars? After I devised the concept, the magazine’s chief electronics designer – an unsung genius called John Clarke – would do the hard work (including building the prototype) and then I’d do the on-car testing. And after we’d got a bunch of projects together, they’d be published in a magazine-style book.
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