Comments by "Link Knight" (@OffGridInvestor) on "Engineering Explained" channel.

  1. If you had have driven a kia you could have gone 7000 miles over the oil change, killed the engine, gone around telling everyone "it's because kias are crap", and they all would have believed you. But just don't tell anyone that the Kia Sedona used as wheelchair taxis here in Australia got about 660 thousand kilometers because they were maintained.....
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  2. I got a 2002 hyundai minivan. Goes great. Because it was A COMPANY CAR and NEVER MISSED an oil change. That's the secret. My family has had a number of company cars (including my latest ford) and they've all been good JUST BECAUSE they never missed any services.
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  3. Don't use Fiat and trouble free in the same sentence.....
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  4. Hybrids have ENOUGH ISSUES trying to fit everything in. Elon talks about hydrogen vehicles and how it's SO MUCH less energy to just use a straight EV. The energy wasted in hydrolysis of water IS BAD ENOUGH let alone the compression of hydrogen. By the time you then have a hydrogen hybrid.... it is MAJOR complication and HORRENDOUS range compared to just a bunch of li-ion batteries and a few DC motors along with all appropriate power controls.
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  5. As a hyundai/kia KINDA enthusiast, the WORST problem with them is the OWNERS who never change the oil.
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  6. Yeah. It's gone from light vacuum intake stroke to KILLING IT vacuum intake stroke FOR NOTHING BETTER than the Atkinson cycle EXCEPT the Atkinson cycle puts hard vacuum ON NOTHING. Like deciding that you can save brake pads and stop just as quick by locking the brakes up. AND IGNORING the tires shredding to bits on the road. "Nein, dis izz zee nyoo brake pad zaver. Please ignore zee flaking rubber on zee rood".
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  7. WELL SAID. The hipsters down there no NOTHING AT ALL about the average truck owner.... might as well have designed it for aliens, because they'd probably understand them better.
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  8. That was a good one. Plastic intake manifolds in the 1982 model..... so you're right.
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  9. +Link Knight I was talking about HCCI btw.
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  10. I worked manufacturing high end radiators and intercoolers for mining equipment (mainly). ALL were painted black before being bolted together with the condenser (and sometimes even fuel coolers, often only seen on the really big rigs used to do outback trucking).
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  11. Yeah. Then everyone also realized they would rather buy a truck that looks like a truck. Not a stainless steel wedge.....
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  12. Ford Australia (right hand drive) stuck to essentially the same inline 6 block from the mid 70s right thru to 2016......
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  13. technically speaking, I saw an American engineer who designed something basically identical to this OVER 15 YEARS AGO. except he basically had a spring between the conrod and piston (well actually there was a fake piston inside the real one and a spring between them). he got really quite high efficiency for the time. usually I see Americans poaching japanese engines. THIS TIME IT WAS THE OTHER WAY AROUND. and I'm Australian too, for you trolls.
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  14. Did you actually realize they had BLADERUNNER MUSIC playing in the background during the unveiling.... honestly that's where this thing belongs. In the bladerunner movie.
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  15.  @charlieodom9107  first you gotta find a construction guy/contractor or farmers who actually want an electric truck. Then they can all laugh as you drive in the stainless steel wedge on wheels. How Elon actually thinks people will buy something that looks nothing like a truck AFTER FINALLY being convinced that EVs are worthy vehicles.....
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  16. Meanwhile NOT ONE TRUCK BUYER can tolerate a stainless steel wedge. I noticed they had "bladerunner" music at the unveiling. That's where it belongs. In bladerunner. Not the real world.
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  17. Probably had it in high gear to make it spin more.
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  18. That's what she said. You get em pregnant sometimes with the release stroke.
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  19. now you won't get any insurance payouts after this video....
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  20. So basically instead of pushing out some air into the intake manifold, it forces tye combustion chamber into A SERIOUS VACUUM.... now what could possibly go wrong switching from vacuum to compression 200 times a minute..... there goes the lifespan of the rings. And DON'T TELL ME it had "vacuum" during a standard otto style intake stroke.....
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  21. MY minivan has a fridge. Like a proper compressor fridge. And a bed. And a stove. And a sink. And a water pump. And.....
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  22. Australia DOES USE the RON standard and our bottom rung stuff is 92 RON.
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  23. No damn truck buyer wants a stainless steel wedge on wheels. ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THEM. And just because he's got some solid facts and maths to back it up NOT FAKE MARKETING DRIBBLE..... Teslas giving you head but you're too indoctrinated to realize it.....
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  24. Seen the German one with the VW golf in reverse??? 18 seconds for the whole video.
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  25. You mean you crash and the balloon just HINDENBURGS.....
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  26. Notice the bladerunner music in the background during the unveiling.....
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  27. Little 4 banger with a trailer home attached to it full of hydrogen. GREAT for inner city parking! I would rather just get an ACTUAL 4 banger.
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  28. 91 octane is ABSOLUTE BOTTOM RUN in Australia. I think the lowest most gas stations have is 92 in honesty.
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  29. HEE YYYUN DAY. Not hoon die or hun day.
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  30. I KNEW Jason would tell the truth. EVERYTHING ELSE is just PRO-GREENIE CRAP and never MENTIONS ANYTHING about range, capacity, equivalent efficiency, NEVER. Because the truth would have to be told about HOW DISMAL it all is.
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  31. 4:44 most fat chicks dream of something like that
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  32. 2.7 litre inline 4 cylinder IS THE BIGGEST? NO NO NO. My father has a 4.4 litre inline 4 cylinder diesel in a huge backhoe he has. 1980 john deere.
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  33. What truck? All I saw was a stainless steel wedge on wheels....
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  34. NINE YEARS copying the MultiAir engine off fiat and then simplifying it so the thing doesn't, well...... break down like a fiat....
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  35. Because it's talking about the stainless steel wedge on wheels that youtube has decided to push to the top of its manipulated search results.
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  36. Noticed it's 16 on trending. Trending is LITERALLY set by people in youtube. Not based on what has the highest interest....
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  37. Passing emissions by choking the engine on its own crud, giving all these additive makers the chance to build some cleaner crap you have to spray in somewhere to keep the things going.... so you don't block the EGR, manifold, catalytic converter, turbo, DPF, back of the intake valves like the GDIs get blah blah blah.
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  38.  @hochhaul  No no NO. Only the hyundais and kias you make in the states are total crap. You know how many theta 2 engines from korea ate out the bearings because of a crankshaft thst wasn't deburred??? NONE. Because they deburred thrm all. Here in Australia all where we get them straight from korea, the theta 2 engines just run as good as any other basic 4 cylinder. Actually better than the GM ones. And how many Kia Sorentos caught on fire going down the freeway. NONE. Once again, no recalls and no greif because they made them properly. I got a 2002 van still running on the same engine and transmission from new. Drive it 70-80mph sll the time. Plastics are crap but everything rubber is like the day it was built. As for the kia pregio, those 2.7 diesels were a fire risk. And they're not much more than a copy of a mazda diesel..... they're a strange stone age diesel with cogs instead of a timing chain though.
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  39. Don't uou mean the B MODEL ford? Wtf is the 18 model.....
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  40.  @ShamanNaoYuki  60 year UNOPENED oil will be fine. it's to do with the water in the air and exposure to air in general that kills it's lifespan.
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  41. EXCEPT DUMMY, ALL their engines are hyundai engines. And they NEVER REALLY HAD their OWN engines before that. Shows how much you know about Kias.... When hyundai took over Kia they ONLY KEPT the J series diesels. ONLY. PRIOR to that Kia was ALWAYS using COPIES of OTHER makers engines..... yeah. Often mazda engines and the J series is a modification OF A MAZDA diesel that they were copying. And in one case a rover engine (these were terrible engines, the rover versions worse than the kias). Also hyundai/kia has partnered with Mitsubishi on engines to the point you can actually put a kia engine IN a mitsubishi (it's been done here on youtube), and all 3 even partnered with CHRYSLER around 07 to make a few engines together. And chrysler bought the ultimate rights to one, MOST LIKELY with bailout money..... Needless to say I know hyundai and kia....
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  42. That's all marketing is. A BIG SCAM.
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  43.  @DonOmarRamiro  not a truck. It's a stainless steel wedge on wheels.
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  44. Usually dodge does that.....
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  45. In Australia in the 1960s there was an accessory which was like a mini swamp cooler in front of the air filter. Most people laughed them off but my uncle told me they saved fuel but the idea never took off.
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  46. Just hyundai. Kia only designs bodies now. In fact kia really NEVER HAD its own engines afaik. Most of its older engines were direct mazda copies with one a rover copy (horrendous engine, genuine rover ones were worse than kias ones with a 40% catastrophic failure in first 6 months in kias), and a couple mitsubishi copies but I think only since hyundai has owned them. The ONLY engines that hyundai kept when it took over kia were the J series diesels which are basically a modification of a mazda diesel. They're truly odd with the earliest one in the pregio having a serious issue with the diesel pump gasket failing abd dumping diesel into the sump and catching alight. That one has about 5 COGS instead of a timing belt or chain, something I last saw in the 70s as well as an oil cooler I believe. There's some strange warmup features in some sold in cold climates including burning diesel to heat the intake air (like an oil heater), followed by one using a high amperage 12 volt air heater like some type of electric space heater for your house. All this just to get the engine to operating temperature quicker.
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  47. Mr K gets rid of your money pretty quick too. Now I can afford a hyundai or a ford. But not something European and DEFINITELY not a GM with a 3.6L HF V6....
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  48. How many years did GM spend on their 3.6 litre high feature V6. You know the one with the timing chain issues, sludge from the tiny PCV valve, huge carbon buildup on the back of the intake valves and all the other greif that I forget right now....
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  49. Over here in Australia for the last few years they've been advertising one with regenerative braking of some type. I assumed it was a limited type electric system with a capacitor instead of batteries.
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  50. Apparently this doesn't apply to Kia owners. And then they'll tell you it was a crap car and that's why the engine died. NEVER THEIR FAULT..... it was just "kias are crap".
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