mmarshall

Here's an interesting little test (30 questions) for you wanna-be Technicians (or just simple car enthusiasts like me). It will determine how much you know about how an auto engine operates.

I got 29 out of 30.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine...Put+It+Back+To

Hoovey689

iTrader: (16)

29/30 as well

Och

iTrader: (3)

30/30 for me

Stroock639

29/30, stupid question about the main advantage of a steam engine... to be fair this wasn't exactly a very difficult quiz lol, i think anyone could figure out that an ECM has nothing to do with a catheter

mmarshall

That was the one I missed, too.

The test might seem simple to us, but don't forget that most of us are auto enthusiasts, and much of our knowledge is not necessarily shared by the public at large. I've shopped with (and advised) car-owners who weren't even aware that engine oil had to be changed periodically.

Stroock639

oh i know, i KNOW, but to get at least a 10/30 you just need to be able to read.

StillLine

That was an enjoyable quiz. I was a gear head long before my first career as a professional motorcyclist and current profession as a neuroscience stroke coordinator.

Sulu

29/30

Not a difficult test at all.

cino

iTrader: (1)

25/30. I feel left out. How could I know Beetle engine is air-cooled. lol

mmarshall

Well, of course, liquid-cooled, front-engined, FWD beetles (essentially VW Golf/Jettas with a different body/interior) have been produced since 1997. But the original air-cooled, rear-engined RWD Beetles were produced in the 1930s......it was actually first designed in **** Germany, under Hitler's orders, as a cheap ubiquitous car for the German public. It was produced up to the late 1970s for the U.S. market, and in Mexico until 2003.

Jewcano

iTrader: (4)

28 out of 30 , the steam advantage one got me too, as well as one other one (don't remember)......some of those questions were downright stupid though >_>....

geko29

29/30, because I picked the "incorrect" right answer on the engine configuration question (inline,flat,rotary is perfectly valid)

hypervish

27/30, one of which was engine configuration, and then two questions about steam.

Aron9000

Rotary engines don't have pistons. They have the spinning dorito of death instead

I know it was a trick question though.

This was beyond easy though IMO. It wasn't like there were two answers that looked correct, there were two obviously wrong ones and one correct one.

I thought they were going to start asking some tough questions like how an automatic transmission works(wizardy and witchcraft on that btw)

mmarshall

Though Mazda, a Japanese manufacturer, has had the most successful use of rotary engines over the years, the basic design was actually traced to a German, Felix Wankel. In fact, Mercedes did a experimental four-rotor car in 1970 called the C-111.