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Petrol head thread!!!

Started by billy rubin, October 29, 2019, 10:41:33 PM

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xSilverPhinx

Quote from: jumbojak on November 03, 2019, 07:04:26 PM
It was a push by the then Big Three to limit competition. German and Japanese brands were already making headway and they didn't want the French getting a piece of the pie too. So they lobbied to have specific features regulated out of existence in the US.

Hmm...sounds very Game of Thrones Brands. Interesting.
I am what survives if it's slain - Zack Hemsey


Icarus

The Frogs do make good wine and wonderful bread.  Some of their women are rather enchanting also.  Who needs a Puegeot or Citroen? 

Way back in the WW2 days I had a Puegeot 125 cc motorcycle.  It did work as well or better than the few Brit bikes that were around.  After I graduated to a four wheeler I had a Fiat Topelino whose transmission was shot to hell.  My father, a skilled machinist, made the gears to replace the trashed ones.  During the war one could get the foreign stuff for practically nothing. No way in hell you could get repair parts at that time in our history.  Clever, or desperate, craftsmen made their own parts....like the piston rings for the Puegeot motor bike which he made from cast iron pipe.   

In the early fifties I worked as a mechanic for an auto dealer who sold little Citroen econoboxes and the early Volvos. I did not care much for the Frenchie but I did respect the Volvos that looked very much like 1939 Ford sedans..  The Volvos had bulletproof little four cylinder engines that could be tuned to go impressively fast.  Fast was not very fast in those days but we thought it was at the time.

Tom62

I had very bad experiences with my Renault 9 in the late eighties. After that I had a lovely Ford Mondeo in the nineties and since the year 2000 I'm driving a Volvo S70. These old Volvo's are nearly indestructible.
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

billy rubin

well,  i confesz i would love a 2CV.

but i am drowning trying to maintain six registered shit piles rightnow, and need another clunker like a bedouin needs sand


News has been received from the Punjab that the Amritsar mob has again broken out in a violent attack against the authorities. The rebels were repulsed by the military and they suffered 200 casualties.

Tank

Added for relevance from another thread.

If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

billy rubin

theres another video somewhere (i think by the same man) of a see through motor running on nitromethane

only for a little while though. the nitro destrys the motor fairly quickly

no atomization, the fuel passes the intake valve as a liquid


News has been received from the Punjab that the Amritsar mob has again broken out in a violent attack against the authorities. The rebels were repulsed by the military and they suffered 200 casualties.

jumbojak

So long as you're cranking up the acetylene you might as well crack the oxy too... No, not really.

"Amazing what chimney sweeping can teach us, no? Keep your fire hot and
your flue clean."  - Ecurb Noselrub

"I'd be incensed by your impudence were I not so impressed by your memory." - Siz

Dark Lightning

:lol: He'll need a blast shield if he uses pure oxygen as well, not just goggles.

Icarus

Pure oxygen will not let the engine run.  A combustible fuel in even small ratios with oxygen will cause combustion.  In that case with a lean mixture, the fierce heat from the fuel/oxy would melt the piston in short order.  That is the way oxy/acetalene cutting torches work. 

That was a fun video Tank.  Most interesting to see that flame propagation rate varies from one cycle to another.   

Dark Lightning

#54
I meant pure oxygen instead of the normal intake air. Do I really present as that ignorant?  :???:

Off topic, I see that "Corbu is my Homeboy" is posted under my handle. Dafuq is a Corbu!?

Tank

Quote from: Dark Lightning on November 11, 2019, 01:42:16 AM
I meant pure oxygen instead of the normal intake air. Do I really present as that ignorant?  :???:

Off topic, I see that "Corbu is my Homeboy" is posted under my handle. Dafuq is a Corbu!?

Your post count title changes automatically. There is a unique one at 666. Blink and you'll miss it!

EDIT Ah you missed it.
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Magdalena

Quote from: Tank on November 11, 2019, 06:24:59 PM
Quote from: Dark Lightning on November 11, 2019, 01:42:16 AM
I meant pure oxygen instead of the normal intake air. Do I really present as that ignorant?  :???:

Off topic, I see that "Corbu is my Homeboy" is posted under my handle. Dafuq is a Corbu!?

Your post count title changes automatically. There is a unique one at 666. Blink and you'll miss it!

EDIT Ah you missed it.
Yes, Tank, but that doesn't answer the question, "Dafuq is a Corbu!?"
:shrug:

"I've had several "spiritual" or numinous experiences over the years, but never felt that they were the product of anything but the workings of my own mind in reaction to the universe." ~Recusant

Tank

Quote from: Magdalena on November 11, 2019, 06:51:57 PM
Quote from: Tank on November 11, 2019, 06:24:59 PM
Quote from: Dark Lightning on November 11, 2019, 01:42:16 AM
I meant pure oxygen instead of the normal intake air. Do I really present as that ignorant?  :???:

Off topic, I see that "Corbu is my Homeboy" is posted under my handle. Dafuq is a Corbu!?

Your post count title changes automatically. There is a unique one at 666. Blink and you'll miss it!

EDIT Ah you missed it.
Yes, Tank, but that doesn't answer the question, "Dafuq is a Corbu!?"
:shrug:

I didn't make make the list :Gaah:
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Magdalena

Quote from: Tank on November 11, 2019, 07:12:08 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on November 11, 2019, 06:51:57 PM
Quote from: Tank on November 11, 2019, 06:24:59 PM
Quote from: Dark Lightning on November 11, 2019, 01:42:16 AM
I meant pure oxygen instead of the normal intake air. Do I really present as that ignorant?  :???:

Off topic, I see that "Corbu is my Homeboy" is posted under my handle. Dafuq is a Corbu!?

Your post count title changes automatically. There is a unique one at 666. Blink and you'll miss it!

EDIT Ah you missed it.
Yes, Tank, but that doesn't answer the question, "Dafuq is a Corbu!?"
:shrug:

I didn't make make the list :Gaah:
:lol: OK.

"I've had several "spiritual" or numinous experiences over the years, but never felt that they were the product of anything but the workings of my own mind in reaction to the universe." ~Recusant

xSilverPhinx

Quote from: Dark Lightning on November 11, 2019, 01:42:16 AM
Off topic, I see that "Corbu is my Homeboy" is posted under my handle. Dafuq is a Corbu!?

I have absolutely no idea but to me, it looks like a name for a new species of vulture.  :shrug:
I am what survives if it's slain - Zack Hemsey