Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "driving 4 answers" channel.

  1. they intermittently fail and leave you stranded with no power just when you need it most as you go to overtake or pull out into traffic...!!! Happened to me, nearly had a crash. Happened to my sister, she had a crash.
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  2. THAT exec has a bright future at Boeing...!!!
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  3. Yeah he would be better using a digital ignition system triggered by a magnetic pickup and 6 magnets embedded into the flywheel, that way he can set the ignition timing and set it at different RPM
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  4. 16:40 I WAS LITERALLY SHOUTING "ROLLS ROYCE DO THIS WITH JET ENGINES" at the computer when you said it - I had a personal tour of the RR Derby factory in about 2004 The single best thing ever in my life - utterly amazing. The grow the compressor blades as a single crystal
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  5.  @terjeoseberg990 - WRONG.
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  6. I LOVE THE NEW BACKGROUND I like stable things to look at, they don't distract me or hype my brian too much.
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  7. I HAVE OWNED every Mercedes S-Class saloon and coupe model from 1992 to 2012 everyone 5 litres V8 They get progressively worse as they get newer. Yes, they have more toys on them, but for build quality absolutely NOTHING compares to a W140 Saloon. And I don't just mean Mercedes, no other car ever built under £250k comes anywhere close.
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  8. CORRECT - I have had so many arguments with people, in an ironic way high PSI is BAD. High PSI is a result of NOT being able to get the air into the cylinders. What you would REALLY like is STP [edit: standard temperature and pressure] and huge air VELOCITY EDIT: his is why a jet engine is so powerful - you can have the massive air velocities cos its not a fixed volume of combustion. You have to have high PSI cos you cant get the air VOLUME into the cylinder without compressing it.
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  9. THAT IS WHAT I WANT Small - light - basic - manual everything - 3cyl or electric - €10,000
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  10. this was my comment: WHAT AN AMAZING CHANNEL these people, who are this good, deserve every single penny they make
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  11. Genuine question why don't we spin up a turbine with the exhaust gas that runs a generator and that runs electrical assist / charges batteries
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  12. ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE was a private tour and explanation at the Rolls Royce Jet Engine plant at Derby in the UK - absolutely amazing They GROW the turbine blades as a single crystal of titanium...!!! Also they don't compress the air in the RR engines, they keep the pressure the same and increase the VELOCITY, this lowers the temperature of the combustion I believe.
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  13. I completely agree
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  14. And you are moving the mass to the rear, which is nearly always good
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  15. THATS WHAT I THOUGHT....!!! We need it on display through a window in the hood/bonnet of the car
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  16. SUPERCHARGED SUMP LUBRICATED 2 STROKE thats what we should be developing - and F1 cars should be made to use these - they would sound ASTONISHING
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  17.  @asianboyyy117  - OH sorry - STP is standard temperature and pressure and the answer to your second question is a book called " Turbocharging and Supercharging" by Alan Allard
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  18.  @removechan10298  YEAH I know. They crate a ceramic mould with a long spiral on the end, they drop a tiny perfect crystal of metal, these were titanium, into the bottom of the spiral and then the pur in liquid titanium and then it goes in an oxygen free autoclave where they cool it over about 3 weeks and the crystal grows up the spiral and then forms the blade.
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  19. WHAT AN AMAZING CHANNEL these people, who are this good, deserve every single penny they make
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  20. IVE HAD SO MANY MX5's [Mk1] Ive literally lost count - they are simply PERFECT and no a V8 swap does not improve them - no swap improves them - cos they are PERFECT In fact the 1.6 is the best
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  21.  @BloodyMobile  I bet they are solid blocks of teflon - QUOTE " Normal oil temp should be 90-110°C,"
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  22.  @removechan10298  The large bypass blades that you see are 3 layers of titanium sheet that they use lasers to weld together in a complex pattern welting either the top to the middle, the bottom to the middle or all three together. They then use very high pressure nitrogen to inflate the sandwich and it POPS into the exact 3D shape of the blade. Inside the centre sheet is stretched into a 3D triangulated lattice V-V-V- Honestly everyone should be able to have a tour - its AMAZING
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  23. I literally thought you meant it has square pistons for a second there LOL - its early in the morning here...
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  24. YES I liked that
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  25. Correct - although it may be roller bearings in a pinch on the smaller planetary gears to provide a frictionless clutch
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  26.  @ZenkiTheDemon  If you had my brain you would truly know the meaning of "Oh the poor brian" 😀 ADHD Autistic + Brain damage.
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  27. DRAWBACKS they intermittently fail and leave you stranded with no power just when you need it most as you go to overtake or pull out into traffic...!!! Happened to me, nearly had a crash. Happened to my sister, she had a crash.
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  28. I HAVE OWNED every Mercedes S-Class saloon and coupe model from 1992 to 2012 everyone 5 litres V8 They get progressively worse as they get newer. Yes, they have more toys on them, but for build quality absolutely NOTHING compares to a W140 Saloon. And I don't just mean Mercedes, no other car ever built under £250k comes anywhere close.
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  29.  @S.ASmith  Interesting - Ill look it up. It was one of those things that seemed so obvious I thought I was being really stupid asking the question.
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  30.  @Kelle128  "makes an extra boost for the engine which creates more power." NO IT DOES NOT. The additional fuel you can add as a result of the increased volume of O2 is what increases the power. NOT the turbocharger.
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  31.  @axeman2638  "Watching the video before commenting is asking too much..."
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  32.  @morpfrank4709 - I thought that issue had been fixed a long time ago but the only reason the project didn't go forward was not demand / need for it
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  33. I LIVE IN BULGARIA we dont get many Tesla over here but last week I saw 2 close up for the first time at the charger - a 3 and a Y OMG so plastic and SO dated They were next to a Polestar and a Merc EQ [?] and I genuinely felt bad for the Tesla owners. DACIA used to buy the old worn out Renolt tooling and remake their old models as ultra-cheap cars, nothing fit, the plastic was wobbly and rippled, it was a new 20 year old car, but they were €6k. THIS IS WHAT THE TESLA LOOKED LIKE. A cheap remake of an old car...
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  34. THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE was a private tour of the Rolls Royce Airo engine plant - they GROW the turbine blades as a single titanium crystal
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  35.  @axeman2638  either you are being very weird or you tagged the wrong person
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  36. No it didnt - 1.8 = torque * RPM / 5252
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  37. WOW - this is going to be interesting, how the **** do you do that...???
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  38.  @BillSmith-fx7xx  For many people no. They have to drag others down in order to feel good about themselves.
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  39. Some were rear-mounted, I think the 6R4 had rear mounted turbo's
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  40.  @geirmyrvagnes8718  Yes they do, at high RPM the blades stretch which means at lower RPM they have to have a relatively large gap and this reduces efficiency.
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  41.  @removechan10298  Its like an ultra-precise high-tech version of hydeo forming. The other factory I got a tour of was Toyota in Derby - that is equally as impressive for the production line, but obviously in a very different way.
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  42.  @daveone191 - I dont know cos I have only seen the Ferrari and other prototypes. I you use forced induction you can lubricate the engine the normal way, its incredibly tiny and you get 2 X the combustion events. I just want to hear a V10 2 stroke F1 car reving to 25,000 RPM
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  43.  @morpfrank4709 - I cant remember I watched a documentary about it but I literally have brain damage which means i forget some things. "This is basically what egr does I guess so it may actually help with emissions on a gasoline engine". I think you are correct that with port tuning [exhaust?] they could achieve very good emissions. For me F1 should be a test bed for weird and wonderful possibilities. Have 5 years running 2 strokes, then 5 running Deisel, then 5 running 3 cylinder engines. If you re going to have multiple billions go into engines - make them invent new things
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  44. @Azreal-_-Low elevation in both cases - sea level basically.
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  45.  @astamith987 These were both basic cars of "older technology", new-ish but high milage - mine was a Mazda 626 [I think] company car. I went to overtake a line of trucks on a long straight country road and it just d!3d on me - thankfully one of the trucks I was overtaking saw I was in difficulty and let me pull in, if he was not watching me I would had had to crash into the drainage ditch to avoid the oncoming truck. My sister otherwise totally reliable Kia just d!3d on her pulling out of a junction onto a busy road, a car ran into the back of her I believe. Both were dirty EGR vales that stuck. My sister had hers taken off but then it would not run cos it has a sensor on it, so they put it back on with a blanking plate, that would not work so she had to buy a new one. As far as I can see its not the valve thats the problem, its cheapening out on the valve thats the problem.
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  46. the only cars SPECIFICALLY designed to be maintained are Toyotas. Toyota has virtual 3D modelling rooms where engineers repair the virtual car to find the problems -- like a pipe in the way of accessing a bolt. They will re-route the pipe or put a kink in it to alow access I used to sell them the 3D projection systems
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  47. THERE ARE SOME AMAZING CREATORS ON YOUTUBE this being one of them - meanwhile terrestrial TV churns out yet more reality TV crap
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  48.  @friendlypiranha774  - the W126 500 SE is the one I have never had but would LOVE to have. But they are getting expensive now for a good condition one... And I test drove a W116 V12 600 SE about 20 years ago, that was very very nice. The problem is, I live in an apartment now and there is no garage parking anywhere close. I don't need a car - having an old Merc would just be a toy cos I like them and leaving it out in the weather would be a bad thing to do to a wonderful car like that... So I'm hanging on - see what life brings...
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  49.  @friendlypiranha774  - Now I am happy to believe I have this wrong. It was a 6.9L I think and I had it in my head that was a V12, but that could well be cos the modern 6.3's are V12 so I'm just assuming... It has a green gold body with the BEST pale green velvet fabric interior I have ever seen in my life - Ive never seen another one like it. It must have been a special order as as I say I've never seen another like it and the ones on google are different. I had a toyota Supra Twin Turbo at the time that the guy was not interested in PX ing, so I put it in an auction with the reserve set at the price of the Merc - but it did not meet the reserve so that was that... NOT that I could afford to run the damn thing at the time... But that bridge would have been crossed somehow.
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  50.  @friendlypiranha774  - THAT'S THE ONE - cos the thing I remember is the suspension which was like nothing I have ever come across. There were speed bumps on the road, the big verity that go up then along for about 2m then back down and the body of the car DID NOT MOVE, the only thing to tell you it had gone over the speed bump was a "psssst tut - psssst tut" and YES it was the moss green interior. The defining memory was the suspension, I have had more modern Citroen's with hydropneumatic and the newer Mercedes with similar but they have never drivel like that. It was not a lot of money at the time, I think £7,000. This was about 23 years ago. But I had just bought the Supra and a house so it may as well have been £70k LOL
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  51.  @d4a  - Maybe it was because they were bang next to the Polestar and the Merc which looked SO much better...? Im a big advocate of EV's, I was expecting it to be WOW and I was shocked. To me they just looked so dated. They looked like they desperately needed a new model / facelift.
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  52. THE STEAM ENGINE WAS INVENTED IN 1712 and its still in use today in nuclear aircraft carriers...!!! - 312 years...!!! OK apples and pears - the steam turbine was invented in 1884 and that is EXACTLY what is used in Nuclear carriers - 140 years Somethings we just got right the first go.
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  53. HAS ANYONE OWNED ALL MODELS...? If so - how to they compare??? Ive only owned the Mk1 [NA?] I loved them so much I've never bought a different model to not be disappointed.
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  54. THE DEFAULT POSITION OF LIFE IS FAILURE..!!! Success is having the dedication and the MONEY to keep trying until you succeed
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  55. THE EU SHOULD MANDATE that ever car has to be 10% smaller in total volume and weight than the previous model it replaces
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  56. IVE BEEN LEARNING TO SEW A BUTTON HOLE FOR 5 YEARS hand sew one that is - Im nearly there but Im not inventing anything - just learning a skill, so dont get depressed...!!! In sure before the end of 2024 we will see a video of a running engine
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  57. I SOLD A LOTUS ELISE 111S that I had bought brand new and my GF bought an MX5 to replace it - I 100% expected it to be total garbage in comparison - IT WAS BETTER Better in that it was MORE fun. If you want a track day car, the Lotus was better, but the Lotus was NOT much fun on badly kept British roads, we were getting rid of it cos it was damaging my GF's spine. This was the start of my LOVE for the MX5
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  58. PORTS...!!! Im pleased you clarified that - I thought they were marbles on top of the piston LOL
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  59.  @trapfethen  OK I dont want to get bogged down in this cos I dont care, it was a throw away comment. But a gearless ratchet where you have a roller bearing that wedges into and eccentric housing is self-adjusting for wear. Look up :"how a gearless ratchet works". its literally a roller-bearing race
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  60. WHY DONT YOU CONTACT THE COMPANY...? try and to an interview with them...!!!
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  61.  @mastercricket7626  - If you give the 1.6 a better air intake to let it breathe it is an absolute JOY. The 1.8 is sluggish to rev, its just not as much fun.
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  62. IT DOES HAVE 2 COMBUSTION EVENTS if you take each piston separately - you get left combustion event and right combustion event
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  63. I AM SO PLEASED YOU ARE DOING THIS cos I have looed at this so many times and just see it as a more complicated rotary with problematic forces.
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  64.  @alanhat5252 - Im trying to consume less news. I realised I had a level of awareness of political world events that could only be described as "unhealthy and obsessive". Its good to be informed, but there comes a point where is not good, its obsessive and damaging and I had definitely reached that point. Also very nice to see you here.
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  65.  @alanhat5252 " everyone has to find their own balances." Id got to the point I was correcting BBC correspondents on trivial details of Saudi Arabia's politics and such like - I thought "why do i KNOW this? This is of no interest or use to anyone and i simply should NOT know this stuff. This is an UNHEALTHY level unless its literally your JOB"
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  66. WHATS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE...??? they did all the engineering built the thing and tested it before launching it...??? LOSERS EDIT - oh ok - you got to that part
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  67.  @d4a  - Its a British thing. Many of our best inventors and engineers were actually Scottish, but we claim them as "British" - its to make up for our loss of Empire. Our tragic national need to still feel big and important. You are correct actually - I mean how do you appropriate the technological achievements of Tesla cars??? South African Elon, mostly European and Indian design team, built in the USA. Im sure it has always been a very similar situation - an international effort.
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  68. THEY WORK like a V1 flying B** a pulse jet engine - it was invented by Walter Kaaden in 1938
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  69.  @vylbird8014  which sucks the energy from the engine instead of recovering wasted energy from the exhaust gasses. Making the engine L:ESS efficient not MORE efficeint.
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  70.  @onupeer5771  I guess until the advent of HVDC / AC car systems it was pretty useless - you are going to get wildly variable voltages just like regenerative breaking, you need advanced electronics to harness that.
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  71.  @vylbird8014  Efficiency is absolutely everything for fleet cars, delivery vans and trucks
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  72.  @jimmydesouza4375  Read down 2 comments - you terrible excuse for humanity
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  73. IN AN IRONIC WAY - HIGH PSI IS BAD High PSI is a result of NOT being able to get the air into the cylinders. What you would REALLY like is STP and huge air VOLUME and VELOCITY, this is why a jet engine is so powerful - you can have the massive air velocities cos its not a fixed volume of combustion. You have to have high PSI cos you cant get the air VOLUME into the cylinder without compressing it.
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  74.  @friendlypiranha774  - HI - I know the movie and knew it was a merc but never knew which one - thank you for this info, I will watch it today with renued enthusiasm. Thank you for this information.
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  75.  @DoubtingThomas333  Na not really - Ive driven over 1 million miles and owned 55 cars, its just statistics. You ever got a duck stuck in your radiator grill head first, I have - you drive enough miles it will happen to you as well
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  76. B!TCH!NG ABOUT THE PRONUNCIATION of "Porsche" is the MOST Porsche fanatic thing to do imaginable The image of the Porsche owner is the single reason I never bough one, despite them being astonishing machines, I dont want to be associated with people who passionately care about how you say Porsche
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  77. IF IT IS FOR SHORT LIVED DRONES why dont they port through the side of the chamber - they can have GIANT ports - one cylinder rotating inside another.
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  78.  @crazyg74  - Yes that is a more accurate way of saying it. I was lacking the language to describe it. it is a casting process that results in the entire casting being a single crystal
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  79.  @makantahi3731 They gave me one of the fan blades to hold, they are giant and next to weightless. This channel should see if he can get a tour fo the factory.
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  80.  @InitiateDee  B!TCH!NG ABOUT THE PRONUNCIATION of "Porsche" is the MOST Porsche fanatic thing to do imaginable The image of the Porsche owner is the single reason I never bought one, despite them being astonishing machines, I dont want to be associated with people who passionately care about how you say Porsche
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  81. 0.315lb ft. so it didnt entirely leave, its just a very cold day for torque
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  82.  @heinpereboom5521  OH you can put a LOT of torque through a gearless ratchet - you would defiantly strip the teeth of the gear before the ratchet went [or the housing would break]
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  83.  @trapfethen  OK bye
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  84. LETS BE REAL - DRONES ARE THE MAXIM GUN OF THE 21st CENTURY the US had FOUR nuclear aircraft carriers in the Red Sea area and they cant keep it open to shipping cos guys in sandals with an Ali Express Drone Buye Plus account rule it.
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  85.  @micgalovic  this is a good point
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  86. BUZZ GENERATION ----> CROWD FUNDING -----> ARMY GRANTS -----> RETIRE...!!!
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  87.  @greatestevar  HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. like you know me in any way. Stop casting judgments on other people who are probably 10 x the person you are. Online name "Greatest Evar" sad tragic human.
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  88.  @alexjenner1108  My first car was a 198x Audi 80 Quattro 5cyl. I loved that car.
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  89.  @geirmyrvagnes8718  Dude you are COMPLETELY missing the point. The outer wall is circular - let's exaggerate. The blade is 10cm long and at 100K RPM it stretched 1cm. That means at 0 RPM is has to be 1.1cm from the outside wall and only achieves tolerance at 100k rpm on takeoff, so for the rest of the flight there is blowby and that lowers eficiency. So they create an air wall between the tip of the blade and the wall of the housing with some technology that is patented - I believe its ionised or resonant but I dont know - it was secret at the time.
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  90.  @alanhat5252  - can you tell me, cos I have forgotten - did they develop a variable length exhaust manifold to alter the scavenging and reduce emissions I just found it " Two-stroke engine variable tuned exhaust system " Patent No WO1985004689A1
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  91.  @nerd1000ify - This is so obvious and I never thought of it... Thank you! I once cut the end of my finger off in an intake port LOL, just installed new rings and I was pushing the pistons up and down and my finger slipped off the domed top of the piston and into the port - the momentum brought the piston back up and chopped off about 3/8ths of my finger 8mm - its still kinda flat at the end LOL
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  92. ALMOST ALL automotive design firsts are French As a Brit - this is annoying, but never the less - true...
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  93.  @mercedesbenzdelos90s  - My wife had an E500. She also had a 190 2.3 Cosworth. The new Mercs are amazing for technology but they don't even come close on build quality. My S500 W140 the entire suspension was covered in plastic covers that made the parts aerodynamic to reduce the noise THAT is the attention to detail. To change a ball joint on the suspension you had to change the entire suspension arm cos they were one piece as the standard bolt on would allow flex. It was literally the best-engineered anything I have owned.
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  94.  @mercedesbenzdelos90s  - I dont drive any longer. I gave away my 2012 CL500 about 2 months ago to a friend as I had not used it for 2 years. I live in Burgas Bulgaria now and the public transport is so good, its a massive pain in the arse to drive and find a parking space and then pay for parking in a car that does 15mpg. I kept the car thinking I would use it for long trips but that never happened. Whenever I thought about using it the battery was flat - It just ended up being a problem and I was paying the equivalent of £100 $130 a month to keep it parked and then the insurance and stuff. The buses are brand new and so frequent they don't even print a time table - you just go wait for one and they have their own lanes and the lights switch for the bus automatically - so a 30 min trip in the car is 15 on the bus. Goes to show you - IF you provide a really good public transport system - people WILL get out of their cars - even an S Class Merc..!!!
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  95. I had about 6 or 8 MX5's MK1's best car ever made for fun.
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  96.  @ZeroXSEED  YES because you are using a smaller engine if "same horsepower AND peak power rpm" V naturally aspirated so you have less friction.
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  97.  @Stef.Cata051  Found it - thats cool
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  98.  @igornoga5362  - Im really pleased I asked this question - Ive had some great replies about things I was totally unaware of. EDIT "The Turbo Compound delivers it's energy directly mechanically to the crankshaft with the help of gears and fluid couplings. The PRT's (Power Recovery Turbines) deliver 20% more power to the engine from the "waste" energy of the exhaust gases." 20% thats a lot. Obviously and aircraft engine is a high RPM almost constantly so ther eis a lot to recover.
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  99.  @ClockDev  OH cool thanks Illgo look for that
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  100. ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC VIDEO one of the best I have watched in months
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  101. I HAD 4 AUDI's with inline 5's - very very good engine.
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