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roxy

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16th Mar 05 at 15:38

read this

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine1.htm

Im on page 10 and ive loads

why dont they have a car maintenece lessons in school like once every 2 weeks

Might change my occupation from a hairdresser to a car mechanic

Paul_J

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16th Mar 05 at 15:49

I think... Hmm I'd have thought anyone with a car should know the basic's like that. Though I know a lot of my old mates were completely clueless about anything to do with engine's (i.e. no idea how it worked, just it did).

But good on you for reading through that and learning sometihng.

Paul_J

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16th Mar 05 at 15:57

Though most of that is only for SOHC (Single over head cam engines) - and a lot of engine's these days (16v) are DOHC.

Also Not all cars have distributers these days either

The v6 animation was interesting - you can see why it gives such a smooth delivery of power, but not as big gains as a in line 6

roxy

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16th Mar 05 at 16:02

any animated diagrams of a DOHC? are all 16v DOHC. what about 20-24v engines?

Paul_J

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16th Mar 05 at 16:05

You can get some SOHC 16v engine's where the 1 cam works both sets of valves...

Basically 16v's just mean there's 2 sets of valves either side of each cylinder.

24v engine's have 24 valves (still 4 valves per cylinder), but they have 6 cylinders. Thus 24.

Have a look at rotary engine's on that site - that'll make you go

[Edited on 16-03-2005 by Paul_J]

roxy

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16th Mar 05 at 16:08

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/rotary-engine7.htm

just on the rotary page, very clever. What will the japs think of next.

Surely with all the technology floating around now within 10years you will be buying very very efficient engines 100-200mpg the norm.

I would even buy an electric car if they were cheap enough and you could get good distance on a full charge 200-300miles.

Ditch

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16th Mar 05 at 16:11

... hope so, as within 50years there wont be much fuel left to run our cars...

Paul_J

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16th Mar 05 at 16:13

I hope not... I like Vrrmm Vrmmm.... not some whiney little electric motor.

and if your moaning about emissions, then think about all the jet planes - before you moan about cars, apparently a single plane crossing the atlantic is equiv of like 10 million cars going up and down the whole of the m1 (massive).

Carl

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16th Mar 05 at 16:14

cheers for the link, i'm abit clueless but willing to learn!

micra_pete

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16th Mar 05 at 17:11

quote:
Originally posted by roxy
just on the rotary page, very clever. What will the japs think of next.

Nismo

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16th Mar 05 at 17:25

shows the rotary well

Jambo

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16th Mar 05 at 17:27

quote:
Originally posted by micra_pete

quote:
Originally posted by roxy
just on the rotary page, very clever. What will the japs think of next.

Why dont they ask robert wankel

roxy

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16th Mar 05 at 18:07

quote:
Originally posted by Jambo

quote:
Originally posted by micra_pete

quote:
Originally posted by roxy
just on the rotary page, very clever. What will the japs think of next.

Why dont they ask robert wankel

heheh thats a funny japannese name

I thought mazda invented it

nevermind

starkie

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16th Mar 05 at 19:00

i thought norton was there first with race bikes

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16th Mar 05 at 19:04

NSU invented it didnt they and uesd in in there RO8O (i have a feeling most ppl on here wont have a clue who NSU are though)

britaxcooper

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16th Mar 05 at 20:32

quote:
Originally posted by jr
NSU invented it didnt they and uesd in in there RO8O (i have a feeling most ppl on here wont have a clue who NSU are though)

well i know what NSU's are

mazdaspeed

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16th Mar 05 at 20:38

I find engines are less complicated than an electric motor. Magnetic Flux, wtf?

Ive done physics and know how motors work but to any normal person they woulnd't have the foggiest

[Edited on 16-03-2005 by mazdaspeed]

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