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

  1.  @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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. PORTS...!!! Im pleased you clarified that - I thought they were marbles on top of the piston LOL
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  9.  @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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  10. WHY DONT YOU CONTACT THE COMPANY...? try and to an interview with them...!!!
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  11.  @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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14.  @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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  15.  @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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  16. 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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  17.  @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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  18. THEY WORK like a V1 flying B** a pulse jet engine - it was invented by Walter Kaaden in 1938
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  19.  @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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  20.  @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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  21.  @vylbird8014  Efficiency is absolutely everything for fleet cars, delivery vans and trucks
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  22.  @jimmydesouza4375  Read down 2 comments - you terrible excuse for humanity
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  23. 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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  24.  @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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  25.  @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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28.  @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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  29.  @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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  30.  @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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  31. 0.315lb ft. so it didnt entirely leave, its just a very cold day for torque
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  32.  @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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  33.  @trapfethen  OK bye
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  34. 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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  35.  @micgalovic  this is a good point
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  36. BUZZ GENERATION ----> CROWD FUNDING -----> ARMY GRANTS -----> RETIRE...!!!
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  37.  @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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  38.  @alexjenner1108  My first car was a 198x Audi 80 Quattro 5cyl. I loved that car.
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  39.  @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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  40.  @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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  41.  @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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  42. ALMOST ALL automotive design firsts are French As a Brit - this is annoying, but never the less - true...
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  43.  @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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  44.  @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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  45. I had about 6 or 8 MX5's MK1's best car ever made for fun.
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  46.  @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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  47.  @Stef.Cata051  Found it - thats cool
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  48.  @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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  49.  @ClockDev  OH cool thanks Illgo look for that
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  50. ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC VIDEO one of the best I have watched in months
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