Just tell that to General MOTORS. LOL!!

Kevin

Again, another excellent pont...maybe I will keep on using the word motor instead of engine...it seems to be historically correct.

How about Motorcycle? Enginecycle just wouldn't sound right, would it?

[QUOTE]Electricians Don't work on engines.
I guess I'll have to tell Border Motor Parts to change their name.
quote:I get mine from Border Motor Parts in Spring Valley (San Diego). Too far for you to drive. I always put in new gears but you can find the pumpkins in wrecking yards. A new set (ring,pinion,brgs,seals) runs about 275.00. HTH. Norm.


ok... make sure you tell Border Motor Parts that too, because I'm sure misnomer is costing them big money from their business...

I'm just messing with u!

K

btw, found this too,
quote:2. (Mach.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which asource of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.

Motors don't have to be electrical.

Been working on fighter jets for years. The reps from GE, Pratt & Whitney etc., all get upset when we refer to their jet engines as "motors".

Anybody else hate standing in line at the Department of Engine Vehicles? DEV?

MoocH

I'm enjoying the stories, lets get some more of them!

One time a friend of mine and I were playing with those little rubber bouncy calls you get from the machine for $.25. Anyway, we thought it would be a really good idea to get some of the bigger ones and put them in a tailpipe. So we crammed it in the tailpipe of my Eclipse and I fired it up. The engine sounded bogged down and almost cut out. So I gave it a little gas. That's when it all started.

With a blast that shook the car, we looked behind us with a heat-sensing telescope we stole from the army surplus just in time to see a flameball traveling superfast headed right for a midget nazi in a baby carriage in the middle of the road with no one else around 50 miles away.

So I put it in gear and spun my car around and started chasing the ball. I was doing about 346 mph before I hit my button with a 3,000 quadrashot of NAWS. We caught up with the flaming ball about 20 miles from the carriage and my friend D leaned out the window with a baseball bat. "A little closer." he says. So I steered the car so we were right next to this speeding flaming rubber ball that I had just shot out of my exhaust about 45 seconds ago. Anyway, D reached out with the bat and smacked the ball as hard as he could. It didn't do anything though since the bat was made of wood and was burned in a flash the second it touched the flameball.

Just then I realized that there was going to be no way of stopping this flaming rubber ball, so I armed the rocket that we stole from the air force surplus which we mounted to the rear frame of the car. When I flipped the switch, we heard a loud explosion and immediately tasted that skin that everyone says that's on your teeth, which happens to get sucked into your throat at 13 G's. Anyway, so now we're doing about 6000+mph when I start coming up on the midget nazi in the baby carriage when all of a sudden, he pops out of the carriage with 2 M-16's and starts firing at us.

So I figured, "Well there's no use stopping for this one" so we just drove right by and let the ball hit him. Then we went to go eat shrimp and THAT. . . . . . . . is how I got that red stain on my shirt.

MoocH

i am an electrician and i work on engines. so there.

last pile o'BS i stepped in was a one worder: can you say "auto-part"?

heres one for ya in my 57 chevy i got a 327 and a 373 posi , this guy that comes in my shop sometimes treid to tell me that the rearend he has in his car which was origanaly a 6cyl car ,and still has the factory one wheelie peelie rearend is stronger and better than any posi rearend i could buy, and that i should put one in my car . i then thought to myself next time he comes in here im going to ask him to leave his stupidity out in his car ..

c'mon any mechanic know's the one wheel wonder is stronger than ferigno. must have one wheelie peelie is good
lol

I could just see ya' standin' there talkin' to the reps, "Y'all sure do make sum big'ol motors!"

there is a dude up the street who is trying to convince me that semi engines are 8 feet tall and he has a lisence to change the oil in it. he also thought the 305 in his cutlass was a 350. that is an easy mistake, but it goes through 3 quarts of oil in 45 minutes and he tried to convince me it would hit 200 mph in 8 seconds. lol. when you meet a person like him you cant help but laugh and call him a dumb ***.

so wait a minute your telling me a 305won thit 200 mph in 8 seconds?
oh well

One guy I grew up with was always a dirty little kid getting into car parts and whatnot. When we were in HS he told me that there was a guy at the test and tune strip that would let you ride with him in his vette down the 1/4. He would tape a 100 dollar bill to the dash and if you could grab it it was yours. Yeah right, how's that for BS?

K

There was this kid at school that had a early 80's camaro like mine, except his was a v-6. He said he was doing a motor swap, i asked him what he was putting in he said a 350, NASCAR motor. Then i asked him where he got that, he acted like he didnt hear me. I also asked him when he thought it would be done, id love to race him at the track in mine. He said he already had the 350 heads on the v-6 I accualy met him once at a light and smoked him in the 02 durango

That was back in my younger and stupid days when i did that...