OP
Sat Jun 04, 2011

Check out the Car Guy Test. Post your score and lets see how many TOTALLY CRAZY OBSESSED car guys there are on this forum. WE are looking for VERY well rounded car guys who dress is car stuff, watch car movies, and have been up to there elbows in grease.

http://www.enginebasics.com/Misc%20Information/MotorHead%20Test.html

TRX
Sat Jun 04, 2011

> Ditched a girl to work on a car
Nope.

>Ditched out of a party to work on a car.
Nope.

>Gone to a car meet
I'm not sure what a "car meet" is, but I've done car shows, rod runs, track days, and drag raced.

>Rebuilt my own engine
It's a rite of passage, isn't it?

>Spent over an hour on car forums
Sure.

>Posted video's on my car on Youtube
I don't do YouTube

>Raced my car on the street,
...and won

>and on the track
...didn't win, but didn't do too bad, either

>"cruised" the local strip
Yep.

>Modified at least 3 things on my car
Starting with "remove body from chassis"? Yep.

>Washed my car atleast once a month
Wash it? Why?

>Installed an audio system in my car
Kraco cassette player, sure. And 6x9 speakers on the parcel shelf. Couldn't hear much with the straight pipes and windows down, though.

>Done donuts in a parking lot with a stupid grin on my face
Done donuts in a parking *deck*...

>Stopped to read car magazines in the grocery store
Sure. At a dozen pages, it doesn't take long...

>Over $1,000 dollars in tools
Get real. If they're not "Made in China", you can carry that many tools without straining too hard.

>Aftermarket Rims + Tires
Aftermarket is still off-the-shelf. I went with custom-made.

>gone on a car local car cruise
Yep

>Rolled down my window and asked someone if its got a hemi
Eh? If you're any kind of car geek you should be able to tell for yourself.

>rebuilt the bottom end of a motor
I used to send stuff out to have it machined, before I got my own boring bar, rod hone, crank grinder, and broach...

>gaped my own rings before
And gapped, too. And file-fit.

>degree'd my cams
Yep.

>built a stroker motor
Many. Back when you juggled rods, pistons, cranks, and machine work putting Chevy pistons and Chrysler rods in a Ford block...

>ported and gasket matched my head
Burned up a bunch of Dremels before I got a real grinder.

>installed my own clutch and flywheel
Yes, but frankly it's way down on my list of "fun things to do."

>modified my fuel system for more fuel
Bigger fuel pump? Yes. Running all-new large bore fuel line to replace the stock line? Yes.

>installed safety equipment in my car
No, I can't say that I have...

>run an alternative fuel in my car
Did a lot of experimentation with vegetable oils and cetane improvers in my old Malibu, and even built a pump and spraybar setup to play with adding 40% nitromethane/alcohol mix. Never have played with M85 or E85, though.

>been to/participated in street racing
Yep.

>wanted a lift in my garage since age 16
Right about then, yep.

>entered my car in a car show
Yep.

>been to a professional race before
Nope.

I know what.....

>"FI" stands for
let me think...

>a F-body is
"an" F-body? That's a Pontiac Formula!

>drifting a car means
Basically, it's doing an extended burnout without doing the dry hop afterward...

>engine braking is
An antique driving technique left over from the days of wimpy drum brakes...

>what a rotary motor is
a Gnome Monosoupape

>-8 AN is referring to
'bout a half inch...

>solid axle means compared to irs.
One oingy-boingy vs. two oingy-boingy

>carburetor jets are
Usually brass, sometimes plastic

>stoic means
An adherent to a school of classical Greek philosophy. Not at all related to "stoichiometric", which is usually abbreviated as "stoich."

>what A/F stoic is with gasoline
A Mandela necklace?

>the difference between inducer and exducer on turbo's is
"Turbo's?" I thought the question had something to do with compressor and turbine wheels, but the posessive is confusing.

>a "cat" on a car is
Jaguar hood ornament

>drive by wire is
Replacing a simple mechanical linkage with a stepper motor that strips its gears or a PWM-modulated solenoid that burns out.

>Toyota's luxury brand is
>Honda's luxury brand is
Don't know, don't care.

>GM's luxury brand is
Hard to tell, they all look the same to me.

>brake boosting is
Never came across the term. Power brakes? Mercedes' demented slam-dunk "brake assist" thingie? Stealing the expensive brake rotors off an unattended Porsche?

>*where* the apex is located
Right about... there.

>dropping or dumping the clutch means
Means you're going to have some expensive "learning experience" about transmissions, U-joints, and ring gears...

>the difference between a supercharger and turbocharger is
You mean a "crank driven supercharger" vs. "exhaust driven supercharger?"

>octane ratings mean
Originally a Federally-mandated scale to compare the relative ping resistance of automotive fuels. Unfortunately, the testing procedure depends on a standard Waukesha test engine with a large, hockey-puck-shaped combustion chamber of such dramatically different combustion characteristics from modern engines that the pump rating is often of little relevance to a fuel's knock sensitivity in a particular engine.

>Hemi got its name from
Mopar advertising from the 1950s.

>427 stands for
The number between 426 and 428? Or perhaps the Ford SOHC 427 V8, or the tall-deck GMC 427 industrial V8, or...

>FI and N/A stand for
FI? Didn't they ask that one before? N/A is vendor-speak for "not available", which usually refers to parts you're trying to order.

>the lph rating of a fuel pump means
Pounds per hour. Older pumps were rated in gallons per hour, which is how pumps actually work. "Pounds" is dependent on the density of the fuel, which can vary 10% or more between blends and temperature for gasoline. Pumps are rated with a standard-density fluid, unless the vendor just guesses, since it's not something you can check for yourself without going through a lot of hassle.

>20w50 stands for with oils
Cold vs. warm viscosity

>the difference between dino oil and synthetic oil is
Now? Since the Federal Trade Commission said vendors could set their own terminology, it's basically what's on the label. Most of the "synthetic" oils you can buy now are repackaged dino oils. Most of them are quite good, but they're not synthetics by the old terminology, which referred true synthetics like PAOs.

>2-step is
What you should have considered when you ate that questionable burrito last night.

>Anti-lag is (not to be confused with 2-step)
In the old days, a squirt of nitrous to spool the turbo up quicker.

>OHC vs pushrods is
Something very important to people who have never seen an overhead cam that had follower and pushrods operating a row of valves on the other side of the head...

>the slave cylinder is
Generally, the hard-to-get-to part of a hydraulic clutch.

>wheel hop is
What you could get without traction bars

>Three on the tree means
>Four on the floor is
What you had if the shifter wasn't marked "PRNDL"

I know who....

> Danica Patrick is
> Michael Schumacher is
> Dale Earnhardt is
> Jeff Gordon is
Something to do with "Speed Channel?"

> Carroll Shelby is
A con man who used to build cars.

> Ayrton Senna is
Dead, I think.

I currently watch or have seen....

> Horsepower TV on spike
> Formula 1 Racing
> NASCAR
> World Rally Championship (WRC)
> Any other form of racing including boats or motorcycles
I don't have a television.

I have seen...

> Bullitt
> American Graffiti
> Smokey and The Bandit
> Gone In Sixty Seconds
> The Italian Job
> Fast & Furious
> F&F2
> F&F3
> F&F4
> F&F5
> *BONUS* seen all the F&F Movies opening night
Yawn...

> The Gumball Rally
Yes.

> Mad Max
Hell yes.

> Days Of Thunder
Never heard of it.

>Death Race
"Death Race 2000?" Yes.

>The Transporter
So-so.

>Talladega Nights
Never heard of it.

I currently....

> Change my own oil
> Do my own tune-up
> have a "system" in my car
> change car fluids early just to be sure
Yep.

> park in the back of parking lots so now one parks next to me
"Now one?" I think I understand the question, though. It doesn't matter where you park a nice car, you'll come out and find an asswipe parked so close on each side you'll have to crawl in through the hatch or side window to get back in.

> wear car related clothing
natural-fiber shirt and pants, full-face helmet...

>own a model of a car
No, but I built a lot of them before I got my license...

***BONUS ROUND***

> I am a Female
Nope, still part of the Bearded Patriarchy!

> Currently Run E85 or Racegas
Nope.

> Run R compound tires on the street
Not now, but I used to.

> Like the smell of Race Gas
it smells like... victory!

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As is often the case with these sorts of tests, the choice of questions reveals something about the person who prepared it. I'm getting the impression of someone who hasn't actually done many of the things the questions refer to, and who maybe 18-24 years old...

Perhaps a better test would have questions like:

1) have you ever rebuilt an automatic transmission?

2) have you ever rebuilt a manual transmission?

3) have you ever swapped an engine from one brand of car to another? (extra points if one of them wasn't a even a car)

4) have you ever channeled a body over a chassis?

5) have you ever welded up a chassis from scratch?

6) have you ever bought Bondo in the handy gallon size?

7) a Maserati Biturbo rolls down an embankment and sustains massive body damage. Your first comment is:
___ (a) dang, it didn't explode like on TV
___ (b) I could fix that
___ (c) hmm, another donor car...
___ (d) Hey! That's my car!

...and so forth.

To assist some of the "mechanically challenged" we could toss in a few freebie questions:

1) Is your amplifier rack bigger than your engine?
___ (a) Yo!
___ (b) Like, I'm totally down with that.
___ (c) What's an engine?