How much do you know about engines?

[Citydude]

42/40. I'm a certified mechanic for Voltswagon....

 

[dodge man]

I also guessed on the year and got it fight. It was a little to easy.

 

[ultrarunner]

I'm not a mechanic... but like most of us have wrenched on cars as a necessity of simply because I didn't want some knucklehead doing it... as in the neighbors newer car with a stripped out oil pan drain.

Restored a fair number of 1920's and 1930's cars and from the 1960's...

 

[SPYDERLK]

only 38, the otto and one about the exhaust (it was a trick terminology question)

Yeah. Crummy test. You have to figure out what they want ... sometimes even choose a wrong answer to get it right.

 

[ovrszd]

39. Missed the Octane question. Got in a hurry....... And I'm not a chemist...... And I'm stupid.......

 

[Jim Shooz]

Geees if you couldn't get 45 out of 40 you should hand in your dangly bits and join the ladies sewing circle.

 

[Wagtail]

I didn't bother doing the test. Other than simple stuff (oil/petrol in the thing, cables attached, air in the tyres) if it doesn't 'go' in the morning, it's BROKEN.

Time to get the "little man from the village" in to fix it.

 

[k0ua]

Why aren't we driving Ottomobiles?



Bruce

Otto and his manager Gottlieb Daimler had a major disagreement on the future direction of the Otto engine. While Otto wanted to produce large engines for stationary applications Daimler wanted to produce engines small enough to be used in transportation. After a period of disagreement Daimler left Otto's employ and took Wilhelm Maybach with him. In 1883 Daimler and Maybach created a .5 hp engine that was small and efficient. In order to evade the patents that Otto held on the engine design, a pretense was found concerning a patent issued to Beau De Rochas in 1862, the same year that Otto failed to create his four cycle engine the first time. Those who were jealous of the Otto patents (there were 25 patents) had 1 patent overturned in Germany largely because the court failed to understand the significance of Otto's layered charge system which overcame the problems of explosive combustion which destroyed all engine designs previously.

Daimler always referred to his design as an explosion engine, to contrast it against Otto's engine and was able to evade paying royalties to Otto. In 1885 he and Maybach created an engine called the "Grandfather Clock" engine and built a two wheeled frame around it. This became the first Otto engined vehicle. Daimler's fourteen-year-old son Adolf was the first person to ride on this motorized bicycle which is the first internal combustion engined motor vehicle. The 1885 Daimler/Maybach Petroleum Reitwagen (Riding Car) was the first motorcycle (and the first motor vehicle) using an internal combustion engine. While Deutz continued to produce large stationary engines Daimler moved onto boats, airships, locomotives, automobiles, trucks, and other transportation uses. Deutz is the world's oldest engine producer.Daimler, which became Daimler-Benz, is the world's oldest automobile manufacturer.

 

[sd455dan]

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40 out of 40 Wording could have been better on a few questions- Wonder if the tests author (actually ) works on engines

 

[number two]

Let's give the test to our wives!
Now that would be interesting!

 

[drssg]

I scored 37, and I know very little about engines. If it wasn't multiple choice, I would have missed a bunch. If I turn the key, it doesn't start, and it's not the battery, then I'm stumped!

 

[sd455dan]

Let's give the test to our wives!
Now that would be interesting!

already told mine- I thought she could get them almost all right
Then again- she does work on HER 1974 AMX :thumbsup:

 

[PhysAssist]

only 38, the otto and one about the exhaust (it was a trick terminology question)

I agree, I'm 39/40 except for that one, but I have to admit I guesses on the Otto date question.

Thomas

 

[k0ua]

I agree, I'm 39/40 except for that one, but I have to admit I guesses on the Otto date question.

Thomas

Even if you did not know the exact year, there was only one logical choice offered.

 

[PILOON]

42/40. I'm a certified mechanic for Voltswagon....

LOL--good one!

 

[Looking4new]

Got 33 out of 40. If I would have thought more I could have done better. Still ain't bad for a 15yr old

You know way more at 15 than I did at the same age. Pat yourself on the back.

 

[Wagtail]

Was there a question regarding the Turbo Encabulator?

 

[ovrszd]

Even if you did not know the exact year, there was only one logical choice offered.

I agree on that one!!!!! When reading the question I was thinking this is gonna be hard!!!! Then when I looked at the answers it was obvious.

But then I missed the Octane thing.........

 

[k0ua]

I agree on that one!!!!! When reading the question I was thinking this is gonna be hard!!!! Then when I looked at the answers it was obvious.

But then I missed the Octane thing.........

That is pretty much the way you take and pass any multiple "guess" test. There is usually a couple of answers that are obviously so far out of the realm of possibility you can just flush them right away, and often comes down to two that seem correct our could be. If you cannot logic it out with your inherent store of knowledge and useless facts, then you can use the Gomer Pyle method to differentiate between the two answers. You take the index and middle finger and rap them over the edge of the table/desk and see which one hurts the most. Assign a choice of answer to each finger and apply your choice accordingly. :laughing:

 

[murphy1244]

That is pretty much the way you take and pass any multiple "guess" test. There is usually a couple of answers that are obviously so far out of the realm of possibility you can just flush them right away, and often comes down to two that seem correct our could be. If you cannot logic it out with your inherent store of knowledge and useless facts, then you can use the Gomer Pyle method to differentiate between the two answers. You take the index and middle finger and rap them over the edge of the table/desk and see which one hurts the most. Assign a choice of answer to each finger and apply your choice accordingly. :laughing:

Goooollllllllllllly!