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Forum: General Talk
07-09-2014, 05:32 AM
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Carbon fiber cars are already here. Just not in the mainstream yet.
High end exotics from Ferrari and others already have full carbon fiber bodywork and some even have full carbon fiber chassis.
But you need to be filthy rich to own one.
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Forum: General Talk
07-09-2014, 05:27 AM
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Not a single piece of plastic anywhere on my lawnmower.
And it will even run on "white gas".
Remember that stuff?
When I was still turning wrenches a young guy was hired in the shop where I worked. He had never even worked on anything that had a carburetor, but only on electronically controlled fuel injection systems. One of the trucks we had was a Vactor, one of those elephant looking rigs that has a big tank on the back and a snorkel over the front that are used for pumping out storm drains and such. The industrial engine on it was a Ford inline 6 cylinder engine, with a carburetor.
Of course it required occasional repairs and adjustments, ignition, timing, and the carburetor.
One night the foreman asked him to bring it in and figure out why it would not start (the carb needed a rebuild).
The kid flatly refused, proclaiming he had never worked on anything with a carburetor, and knew nothing about them.
I simply explained that they are simpler and easier to work on than electronic fuel injection systems, the foreman gave me the job and let the "kid" do a brake job on a pickup. :cool:
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Forum: General Talk
07-09-2014, 05:12 AM
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Forum: General Talk
07-09-2014, 05:09 AM
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I still "tinker".
But then I was a mechanic for 30 years, and refuse to let some underpaid hack fiddle with my vehicles. :cool:
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Forum: General Talk
07-09-2014, 04:59 AM
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Leaded racing gasoline is still available, but the price per gallon is getting pretty steep.
Since the engine in my race Z is not extremely high compression I have been getting 100LL avgas at my local airstrip. A little more than the unleaded 97 from the pump, but way cheaper than the 110 octane racing gas.
(And yes, I know the octane rating system is different for avgas. ;) )
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Forum: General Talk
07-09-2014, 04:55 AM
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