It's called an ENGINE...

Is this the post responsible for knocking out Ryan's servers today???

"Engine oil" I like that. We need to start calling them engine mounts too.

 

When ur drunk right
Dave

 

If i was gonna bet id bet is was the post by Jesse.......
Dave

 

Sometimes you end up in peoples trucks you don't even know.

 

Homos!

 

As i was enginevating over the hill......

nah, just don't sound right

 

All this time I've been putting MOTOR oil in my ENGINE....... Dammit!!

 

thats FAG to you... friggin left coast butt bandit

anyhow, NO... it was that tank MOTOR* thread that put the HAMB on its knees from what i heard





*read that as ENGINE Joe. . .

 

Let's just call 'em all "flux capacitors".

Personally, I don't give a shit either way, so long as the person knows what they're talking about. There's nothing worse than listening to a guy who says stuff like, "Yeah, I used to have a 442 GTO with a 454 motor innit. Ya know whut 4-4-2 stands for?? Dual pump dual quads dual exhaust."

THAT'S when the term "motor" pisses me off.

If Smokey Yunick wants (well, when he was alive, anyway) to call 'em motors, on the other hand, I'm OK with it.

 

Illogical...cant compute....cant compute..ill.o.gi..ca.llll...... Zzzzzt poof pop bang! Wuurrrrrrrr......You could kill a few mutant robots with that one.

 

What about the difference between hub cap and wheel cover. Or generator and alternator; isn't an alternator a generator?

 

different entirely

 

I think "search engines" on the web is ALL WRONG! It should properly be "search motors". They don't consume fuel and air to make an exposion when you use them.

 

actually they do, a powerplant uses fuel to create electricity, to run your computer, so we can all talk about a stupid topic.

 

Geez, must be a slow day. 6 freakin pages since afternoon over motor versus engine. Let's get back to talking about CARS. This is as bad as the "what is a rat rod?" threads

 

hub cap covers the HUB... like a grease cap yaknow? wheel covers cover the wheels and lug nuts entoto

 

An alternator Produces AC. A generator producecs DC. Modern Alternators produce AC then uses diodes to converert it to DC.

 

I agree. Who gives a rodent's rump what it's really called. I never figured this bunch to get so damned pedantic. (Look it up if you don't know)

 

It's damper, not dampener. Unless, of course, the purpose of the harmonic dampener is to slightly moisten the harmonics.

Now I'm off to the Department of Engine Vehicles to register my enginehome.

DF

 

I LOVE the english language:

Mouse - Mice
House - Houses
Moose - Moose

Makes perfect sense to me.

Shawn

 

Geeezzz, talk about cabin fever........you guys gotta get back out in the shop.

 

Fuck that it's freezin' out there... but I do find myself hungry for a bacon sandwich...



JOE

 

Yeah, they're ENGINES alright, but MOTOR sounds cool.

 

Wrist pin or piston pin

 

If we are getting politically correct , here then......"She is not a hooker, She is a low cost provider"

 

"intimate entertainment and satisfaction engineer"

 

"She is not easy........She is vertically accessable"

 

Im gonna go polish my rocker boxes and valve covers.

 

en·gine /ˈɛndʒən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[en-juhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun 1.a machine for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy or power to produce force and motion. 2.a railroad locomotive. 3.a fire engine. 4.any mechanical contrivance. 5.a machine or instrument used in warfare, as a battering ram, catapult, or piece of artillery. 6.Obsolete. an instrument of torture, esp. the rack.
[Origin: 1250&#8211;1300; ME engin < AF, OF < L ingenium nature, innate quality, esp. mental power, hence a clever invention, equiv. to in- in-2 + -genium, equiv. to gen- begetting (see kin) + -ium -ium]

&#8212;Related forms en&#183;gine&#183;less, adjective

 

mo&#183;tor /&#712;mo&#650;t&#601;r/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[moh-ter] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation &#8211;noun 1.a comparatively small and powerful engine, esp. an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like. 2.any self-powered vehicle. 3.a person or thing that imparts motion, esp. a contrivance, as a steam engine, that receives and modifies energy from some natural source in order to utilize it in driving machinery. 4.Also called electric motor. Electricity. a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor. 5.motors, stocks or bonds in automobile companies. &#8211;adjective 6.pertaining to or operated by a motor. 7.of, for, by, or pertaining to motor vehicles: motor freight. 8.designed or for automobiles, their drivers, or their passengers: The hotel has a motor lobby in its parking garage for picking up and discharging passengers. 9.causing or producing motion. 10.Physiology. conveying an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve. 11.Psychology, Physiology. Also, motoric. of, pertaining to, or involving muscular movement: a motor response; motor images. &#8211;verb (used without object) 12.to ride or travel in an automobile; drive: They motored up the coast. &#8211;verb (used with object) 13.Chiefly British. to drive or transport by car: He motored his son to school.
[Origin: 1580&#8211;90; < L m&#333;tor mover, equiv. to m&#333;- (var. s. of mov&#233;re to move) + -tor -tor