Posts from the Twilight Zone (can YOU figure them out?)

Sometimes I read a post and I just stare and stare and no explanation comes to mind.
There are things beyond the knowledge of ordinary men such as myself. Maybe YOU can help these people, who obviously have a real problem of some sort, but a problem which defies my ability to not only solve, but even understand. They seem to defy the laws of Automotive Science.
Heres one for openers. All comments welcome:
The Case of the Disengaging Crank Pulley
Shifty the Host
There are things beyond the knowledge of ordinary men such as myself. Maybe YOU can help these people, who obviously have a real problem of some sort, but a problem which defies my ability to not only solve, but even understand. They seem to defy the laws of Automotive Science.
Heres one for openers. All comments welcome:
The Case of the Disengaging Crank Pulley
Shifty the Host
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I could imagine a case with a two layer shell, hollowed out, so there are two paths for airflow. The path through the case, when the supercharger is not spinning, and the traditional path when the supercharger spins, drawing even more air through the carbs.
Probably a tuning nightmare. Don't know if you could use two carbs, because under boost the "non-boost" carb might not see vacuum.
Of course, it is easier today with fuel injection and electronic boost control.
TB
engineer geek
Yes, it CAN be done, but it wasn't then. As a car guy and hard core movie trivia geek, I've had that argument before...
If so, why on earth?
Also, what DID the man see when he said he saw his crank pulley STOP?
Very mysterious.
I've installed a few of them.
They are dogs at lower rpm and terrible on fuel economy, but when you flip the switch they really come alive.
I suspect there are some other symptoms, like looking under the hood and losing lunch from the odor, that might attend this condition.
but the most likely explaination is aliens from outer space. or ephedra. you can blame anything on ephedra now, the gummint says it's ok. or saddam. check your service records for tech "666," if he did your inspection, it's sabotage by saddam. the wires told me so
The idea of a clutch-driven crank pulley was just too wild for me. I started thinking "only the French would design something like that" and no doubt for all kinds of rational reasons in their minds.
I'll go look for more Twilight Zone posts.
Hey guys, I've got a 98 1.8T. I've had a k04 and chip for a while and wanted to get more performance. I was recommended to port and polish the intake and exhaust. We found out they used abrasive material to do it like gritty sand. So I got with my friend that tunes Hondas and we decided to try it ourselves. We got a bag of sandblasting sand and hooked up into the intake and started the car. We had to hold the gas so it would run. He wanted to let the engine suck in the sand through the intake so it would port it out and then push it out the ehxaust so it would port the exhaust manifold.
I was worried that it might cause problems but he figured it'd be OK as long as we didn't make boost and it get sucked in the turbo. After running the car and letting it suck in sand we got about half way through a 25 lb bag. The check engine light was on and the engine was bucking and kicking and sounding really weird. We stopped and hooked the car back up normal and took off the sand supply. We tried to start it again and it was really hard. Once started it couldn't idle and kept making weird noises. We took it out and drove it and it started to make scraping and knocking noises.
Help! Can anyone tell me what to do! My buddy only does Hondas so he doesn't know much about Audis
This has to be a joke, at least I hope for the sake of the genepool it is a joke.
TB
To this day, I regret having interfered, as I've often daydreamed about witnessing what would have happened.
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But seeing as this topic doesn't really seem to have a topic, I'll contribute this story heard from a friend that swears it's true.
"Friend mentions to me that a guy we both know came by his house looking for help with a problem. He was trying to check the rear differential grease on his 1969 Z28. And could not get the square-headed plug out. He was using one of the few tools he owned, a Cresent wrench. My friend said he should have been able to do it with the wrench and asked a few more questions.
Seems the guy was attempting to remove the plug using the large round hole in the end of the wrench. The hole used to hang the Cresent on the nail in the wall...."
but which end is the handle.....
And "abuse" is a word the abusers don't want to hear!
I also watched, dumbfounded, as a Chevrolet mechanic in a Chevy dealer de-carboned a 350 Chevy engine with a bottle of water!
He was an old timer too...he held the throttle linkage open at a pretty high RPM and squirted the water...lots of it...into the carb.
The engine shook and pinged like hell! You should have seen the black crap that came out the tailpipe.
And, it worked! It idled like a purring kitten when he was done!
Borax in an engine is based on Model T Ford technology when piston gap was about the thickness of a 2X4, carburator jets were the size of a drainpipe and metallurgy was about as good as a Vermont wood stove.
There was an "old timer" he must have been 50 at the time who was very well known as the local flathead expert.
If you had a flathead Ford or any other kind of a flathead, he was the guy you wanted to see.
Anyway, he swore by the borax method. A customer had an old flathead Pontiac eight that had been overhauled by someone else not long before.
I guess the rings didn't seat and the car smoked and burned oil.
I didn't see him do it but others did...he give it a "borax" treatment and it apparantly worked!
True story...now, would I try this? Heck No!!
and you should never, ever get into a position where any part of that jury-rig monkey trick is going to be able to touch you anyplace. injuries, at best, hurt.
we've all probably used a "force multiplier," but I sure hope you knocked the broken end of the tool out of the pipe before taking it back and trying lamely for a "lifetime warranty" replacement. I'm getting more into the mode of taking out the hacksaw and replacing the hardware if it's external rather than getting my FM out.
I thought he would shatter a piston but he didn't.
swschrad...
When it comes to abused tools, I've seen it all. Nothing would surprise me. I've seen 3/8 in. 34 inch extensions used as prybars.
I've seen test light probes that have been used as line-up bars.
And the LIES from the abusers I've heard...!
I took him out to lunch; the electrician declined.