Being a second gen cal/okie I know "Motor is interchangeable w/engine
but...lol
Man I'm bored today :)
Mitch Alatorre
naman TEN/NROS
Team Tachyon
I like your point and maybe I'm a little bored too but here's
a twist.
Being a fuel head I agree that a carbed, fuel-injected, turbo
and/or supercharged internal combustion engines are "engines"
not "motors". So why do we say "motorbikes". I would prefer
that the world be retrained to saying "Enginebikes" but I'm
not Bill Gates so motorbikes it is.
I own a Nissan Skyline GTS 2.0 Litre Twin Cam inline six,
which buy fuel injected non-turbo standards are reguarded as
high performance and one should think twice about picking on
one at the lights.
The engines in these Skyline GTS's are the basis of the
Skyline GTR "Godzilla" 4 WD Twin Turbos that out ran the 5.0
litre V8's at the Australian Bathhurst 100 k race in 1990 ??.
They were banned from the race. There is a quite a few here in
New Zealand and in fact a 2.6 litre version in the lastest NZ
Performance Car mag features one that was clocked at 310 KPH.
Not bad for a 2.6 litre six cyclinder.
Anyway my point is after all that raving is that the motors in
my car drive the wipers and electric windows while the engine
drives rear wheels. (sometimes spinning them due to another go
at the lights.)
Engine are for fuel heads.
Motors are for cake mixers.
Take care
Nigel
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Nigel of Lakewood Motorsports
Nascar Coruba & Coke Chevy
Hamilton
New Zealand
A motor is an electric device.
Dave
An Engine is a mechanical contrivance, using fuel through internal
combustion to generate motive output.
A Motor is a machine for supplying motive power, regardless of the fuel
it uses. An electric motor uses electricity to produce it's output,
where as a motor in a motor vehicle, normally uses a combustible fuel,
such as petrol, diesel or gas.
It is still classed as a motor.
Any contrivance that provides motive motion is classed as a motor, that
includes the internall combustion engine. :)
Cheers,
Ron
- Matt
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I see you follow the "If you're going to distort the truth, then do it in a
big way" line of thinking.
Just because the motorsport authorities no longer support a class of racing
does not mean a particular car is banned or do you also maintain that the
GTR was banned in England because they went to a two litre touring car
category. Using your statement you could also say that any model of car that
ran in those days (including the V8s) were also banned because they didn't
meet the requirements of the new categories. We might have a V8 touring car
category in Aust today but the rules covering vehicle modifications are
different to the Group A rules .
I do agree that GTR is an awesome car. But it was also the car that caused
the world wide demise of the old group A touring car category because no
other manufactures were prepared to spent the sort of money that Nissan put
into the GTR. It was a car build specifically for racing in this category,
not a modified standard production model that was build by other
manufacturers.
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Matthias Flatt
So Steppenwolf has to change the "Born To Be Wild" lyrics:
"Get your engine runnin', ..."?
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Best regards,
Bruce.
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>>Being a fuel head I agree that a carbed, fuel-injected, turbo
>>and/or supercharged internal combustion engines are "engines"
>>not "motors". So why do we say "motorbikes". I would prefer
>>that the world be retrained to saying "Enginebikes" but I'm
>>not Bill Gates so motorbikes it is.
>So Steppenwolf has to change the "Born To Be Wild" lyrics:
>"Get your engine runnin', ..."?
>--
>Matthias Flatt
> As any electrician would tell you, a "motor" is driven by electricity and an
> "engine" by either steam or via internal combustion.
l8er
ronny
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> >So Steppenwolf has to change the "Born To Be Wild" lyrics:
> >"Get your engine runnin', ..."?
|\ _,,,---,,_ I want to die like my Grandfather,
ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ in his sleep.
|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Not like the people in his car,
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) screaming their heads off!
Hows about a rocket car...
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Suck The Goat
Tim
> >On 27 May 1999 22:43:06 GMT, Nigel Nichols
> >So Steppenwolf has to change the "Born To Be Wild" lyrics:
> >"Get your engine runnin', ..."?
> Motorhead will probably need to change their name to Enginehead, too.
> It just doesn't have the same ring to it.
> Tim
Holy cow man
Chill out dude. Don't take life so serious, you won't get out
of it alive.
I said banned from THE race. Not banned period.
I mearly stated that the GTR was banned from the (I think the
James Hardie 1000 at the time), because they had a unfair
advantage of twin turbo no holds barred power to weight
ratio and 4 wheel drive .Besides the race is far better as a
fuelhead V8 only race in any case.
Oh and I was lucky enough to take a R33 GTR for a 20 min or so
drive as it belonged to a friend. Lucky there were not
cops around. hehehe . Sadly he sold it and bought a RS500
Cosworth instead. :>(
Nigel Nichols
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Redline Race Controls
Nigel of Lakewood Motorsports
Nascar Coruba & Coke Chevy
Hamilton
New Zealand
"Engine" is the correct term to use in relation to computers, even though they
are electrical devices. A couple hundred years ago, Charles Babbage designed
the "Difference Engine", a hand-cranked computer for performing calulations.
It used punched cards for programming and binary math.
Earlier in this century, the "Turing Engine" was another theoretical computer.
In today's terms, a computer "engine" is a semi-autonomous process, often used
in databasing or modelling (ie.- sim physics engines).
Bob
