hellishly complicated road car engines
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- and bits left over I assume?!
You've chosen an V engine so it has 2 heads - add on those 10 cylinders and it's going to be WAY more complex-looking than a regular 4 or inline 6 - but otherwise I'm not really seeing the horror there!?
The engine is still, basically, the same concept. Block, Crank and Flywheel, Pistons, Heads with Cam Gear and then a tonne of bits and bobs which amount to air system, fuel system and the electronics to control it all...
The bit I find most fascinating about mechanics is the way they can strip-down a car - leave it for a couple of weeks (awaiting authorisation or parts or the owner to find the money) and then put it all back together. According to a mate of mine, modern cars are even easier to do this with thanks to using moulded parts, color-coded connectors, more uniform bolt/stud sizes etc. etc.
His description was "a jigsaw with a lot more edge pieces!"
The most terrifying thing I ever saw was a MINI2's door stripped to the bare bones tho - there were easily more parts than in that picture and it was far less 'obvious' which bits went where...
p.s. open-up a DSG-type gearbox and be really blown-away
The engine is still, basically, the same concept. Block, Crank and Flywheel, Pistons, Heads with Cam Gear and then a tonne of bits and bobs which amount to air system, fuel system and the electronics to control it all...
The bit I find most fascinating about mechanics is the way they can strip-down a car - leave it for a couple of weeks (awaiting authorisation or parts or the owner to find the money) and then put it all back together. According to a mate of mine, modern cars are even easier to do this with thanks to using moulded parts, color-coded connectors, more uniform bolt/stud sizes etc. etc.
His description was "a jigsaw with a lot more edge pieces!"
The most terrifying thing I ever saw was a MINI2's door stripped to the bare bones tho - there were easily more parts than in that picture and it was far less 'obvious' which bits went where...
p.s. open-up a DSG-type gearbox and be really blown-away
GroundEffect said:
None of them are particularly complicated...
They're just the regular parts but more of them. Find something that's actually innovative
I'm posting what I can find rather than what's complicated, there's only so much out there. Give me a suggestion and I will look for it...They're just the regular parts but more of them. Find something that's actually innovative
twazzock said:
GroundEffect said:
None of them are particularly complicated...
They're just the regular parts but more of them. Find something that's actually innovative
I'm posting what I can find rather than what's complicated, there's only so much out there. Give me a suggestion and I will look for it...They're just the regular parts but more of them. Find something that's actually innovative
eta scrub that - not a road car
edo said:
This horrifies me (V10 BMW engine).
Where the hell would you start building something like this?!?
What else is as (or more) complicated?
Whenever I look at that (rather wonderful) photo, I'm troubled: I can only see the valves from one cylinder bank left and only the throttles from the right.Where the hell would you start building something like this?!?
What else is as (or more) complicated?
I have to agree with the guys saying these aren't too bad. I stripped a Rover V8 down to a similar sort of level and I can tell you I had pretty much that many parts lying around - it's not that modern engines are especially bad in terms of parts counts, it's just that engines themselves are bloody complicated things!
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