Comments by "Lifted_Above" (@lifted_above) on "driving 4 answers" channel.

  1. Straight-six for the win.
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  2. That short header is a work of mechanical art. Love the symmetrical look, the weld quality, the beefy flanges.
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  3. Manufacturers need to start making fun cars again. Not everyone wants a stupid high-riding box to poke around in.
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  4.  @jackkenny4194  If you needed a vehicle and every lot within 50 miles was 98% suv, truck, or cuv...... what would you likely be buying? What if 98% of the vehicle choices had automatic or CVT transmissions, what would you likely be using? What if 98% of the vehicles were some shade of gray, silver, or ultimately bright red or black. What color would you be driving? Now look on the highways and tell me what you see. Tell me all of those vehicle drivers chose their vehicles for reasons other than sheer availability and marketing.
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  5. It's better to mix the water in the vaporization process instead of in the liquid state. 😜
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  6. People's choosing of a product has very little to do with their choosing, but a lot to do with product availability and the marketing pushing it.
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  7.  @jfess1911  Context kind of difficult for people to follow? Original post: "My fuel already comes filled with water from the gas station pump". It was a humor, a joke. My followup to that was also said tongue-in-cheek, as in, don't be dumping water into your gasoline tank and trying to mix it where it shouldn't be mixed (ie. liquid state).
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  8. Remember Husqvarna took an F800 BMW engine and reconfigured it to 315°? That's 30° closer together than the KTM engines. BOY THAT MUSTA COST HUSQVARNA A FORTUNE.
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  9. Never doubted it. Just because billionaires push "green" agendas--and hence electric technology--doesn't make electric as feasible as they claim, and doesn't make it clean as they claim, and doesn't make it the future like they claim. In fact, the Paris Climate accord as a political and financial program is a scam, a means to enslave the manufacturing sector of the world with mind-blowing taxation.
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  10. Excellent. I didn't see where you greased the lower bearing before enclosing it in the stem housing. While these are very low speed, minimal movement bearings, I would tend to favor packing both bearings with grease before installing them. Not packing too thick to slow movement but thick enough to prevent water and debris from easy ingress.
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  11. It's not a natural, sensible, or organic activity in the automotive space. It's pushed on manufacturers by governments, ie. fascism.
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  12. Want to stay ultra reliable for turbocharging? Go port-injection only, combined with a massive air-to-air intercooler, an efficient cold air intake, and free flowing downpipe and exhaust with a quiet-enough muffler set. The penalty will be fuel consumption over the life of the setup, but you'll stay reliable and simple compared to the complexity of DI systems.
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  13. Aren't you guys just trying to speak about the containment volume of a cylinder? Which is nothing but the area of a circle, times length? Gas flow is a lot like water flow, just much less dense. You have both a volume of water and a velocity. You have both a volume of gasses and a velocity. Diameter of the plumbing affects volume and velocity, one way or another.
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  14. Houses sometimes become a giant cylinder, when someone leaves the stove gas on a long time, it mixes with the air, and then a "spark" occurs. It's usually not very good for the house though.
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  15. So it's like a barn door flapping back and forth during a tornado, but instead of flapping back and forth, it becomes unhinged and flies off around and around.
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  16. Independent competition is a healthy thing in the public sphere.
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  17. "If it sounds........" Focus on that part. Perception (the sounds part) of something can be just as flawed as the reality of something because perception is often based in the limitations of things rather than the possibilities.
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  18. Nothing like the smell of sulfur in the morning.
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  19.  @Fabiek3  Having worked half my life in a lot of difference places, I can say, raises are seldom given to anyone who's doing exceptional jobs.
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  20. It can get very complicated very quickly, when you consider material types, thermal conductivity of those materials, surface condition of those materials, the differential of temperature between the inside and the outside, and how tightly the bends are in that tubing where there are corners. So much of it is kept simplistic and generalized because the minutia isn't worth considering.
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  21.  @MoistGrundle  You may be a petrol head, but you're also a believer in the mainstream narrative of "climate change" and the fear porn of it all. And those two concepts are not both based in true science (not garbage science, with no proof, just a lot of funding and propaganda behind it). I'm not ridiculing you. I'm only saying that people have believed something without much consideration of the source of that information. It isn't difficult at all to push an ideological narrative to the masses, if you control the right minority of where mass information flows. Manufacturing is not at the spearhead. Manufacturing is controlled by non-scientific political interests. And the people need to push back hard. Why? Because it is not in the public's best interest and it will be a financial disaster. Those pushing so-called green energy don't give a flying rip about whether it is actually scientifically feasible. They have zero interest in that. They also have zero interest in the effects of one means of transportation over another as relating to pollution. They just don't. It's a narrative pushed to the masses, a cloak for their agenda.
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  22. I think opposed piston designs that require a supercharger offer a lot of potential.
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  23. My second pick would be the VR6. Sound absolutely wonderful, and VW's blocks are stout, easily taking 1000 horsepower with the right stuff.
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  24.  @DogmaticAtheist  Makes a heap more sense than the business plan implemented at the last manufacturing facility I used to work for which destroyed morale and emptied out most all the former staff.
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  25. The earth's orbit around the sun is not perfectly circular, it's elliptical. The sun's trends are not entirely steady, they are cyclical. Put these two phenomenon and the record keeping of man's measurements back into historical times, and you have evidence of trends in the climate, none of which have to do with the last 80-100 years of burning petroleum. It's great that industry has cleaned up exhaust pipes, coal plants, etc. so we can see across town and not gag. The earth pollutes itself in massive quantities in very destructive elements, and also cleans itself up. This is ongoing for thousands of years.
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  26.  @stephenbello1081  Know anything about the WEF?
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  27. How about understanding why the push away from them? Lies about the climate. Lies about the cost. Lies about the feasibility. Lies about lifestyle. Lies about energy. Lies coming from the tiny minority with billions of dollars in government. Push back against the World Economic Forum of rich liars. These men want to teraform the planet, wipe out billions of people, eliminate everything but electricity, control every penny with electronic currency. Are you going to let them do this? This is not a theory, this is a factual conspiracy.
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  28.  @imnotusingmyrealname4566  Whoda thunk that VW would be one of the last brands "saving the manuals" ....... until they didn't.
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  29.  @imnotusingmyrealname4566  Yes, the manuals are no longer available on the mk8 2024+ models, DCT only. Glad I snatched up a low mile Mk7.5 manual GTI a couple years back.
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  30. What's more likely is the deflating balloon of the F9 fans and the rage that follows. I have nothing against Ryan. I just think a channel with their production slickness will box itself into corners from time to time, as fans mistake slickness of production with objective fact.
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  31. And no one is going to evaluate the video, check the facts, investigate the cited sources, or reach a different conclusion. It's just too confident, articulate, and full of seeming logic and statistics to be a problem.
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  32. Cost has been a major contributor to whether further R&D is explored with conventional combustion engine rotating assembly design makes a leap forward. Lots and lost of configurations have been explored and tried, but due to complexity and manufacturing hurdles with how to make things that get designed, ultimately the fall back position has been conventional wisdom, doing what works, what is proven. There's a lot of reasons why certain things don't get done, or certain other things eventually take over. Combustion technology hasn't been stagnant. There's been development for many years and things have been changing for many years.
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  33. Please can we quantify good information on the basis of something other than money?
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  34.  @MurCurieux  You can thank the globalist billionaire bankers and their sub-system regulatory cabals for making things stupidly expensive and complex under the pretense of earth-harm. They create a theoretical thesis way back in the early 1900's, pump the information streams with the theory for 120 years, and build their legal and regulatory systems to control the dickens out of manufacturing, engineering, and scientists while the public never cry out because the public are fed the same unproven narrative. Oh and they bought out the legal system too. It's like an international version of Al Capone's Chicago.
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  35.  @jimgoff1170  Luck is superstition. I'm not a fan. I'd rather research and use critical thinking, observation, get to know history, and not lean on all the self-proclaimed experts, especially highly paid Marxist educators with a political agenda.
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  36.  @jimgoff1170  If man is so far the most intelligent known being that man has ever observed, and man records information about the world and himself in words and writing, then it would stand to reason the larger meanings of everything around us and outside us would also have written the answers somewhere, preserved them throughout time without mistake. Wouldn't that make sense? And if God created man, wouldn't God have left man written record explaining what all of this is and what man is? And who God is?
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  37.  @jimgoff1170  Well unless you see God and talk to Him within your lifetime, or have heard of anyone who talked to Him in their lifetimes, you'll have to rely on historical writings like it or not. Everything else is no more reliable than the newspaper.
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  38. The ever-increasing noise and emissions standards that "automotive manufacturers have to meet" are designed to eliminate combustion engines in the end. That is the ultimate goal, to raise the bar so high that no combustion engines will ever meet it. It's globalist manufacturing, transportation, and energy control. Has nothing whatsoever to do with a clean planet. The clean planet narrative is only a distraction for normies to prevent revolt.
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  39. Numbers with combustion engines is mostly a game with people, especially those in the modification space. So much of it is merely boasting. The point with numbers has always been a quotation with "peak" numbers. Then the company they keep returns the counter-statement, and they return their counter-statement and back and forth and back and forth. It's like two enemies on a battlefield taunting each other about the size of their weapons and horses before they prove whether their claims have any basis in reality. Fact of the matter is, the issue of internal combustion engines, transmissions, tire adhesion, and all of the rest are very complex. People want to boast of their ability to distill something that is extremely complex down into a few simple statements. It's simply not how the science of locomotion works.
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  40. Correct. But there's been plenty born who never admitted humbly, to this.
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  41. One could have a thimble with 40 psi gas pressure inside it. Internal volume is extremely low. One could also have a 55 gallon drum with 40 psi gas pressure inside it. Internal volume is monumentally higher than the thimble. The amount of time it would take to relieve/equalize those internal pressures to the atmosphere is drastically different. Thimble would be an instant fizz. The drum would be a large blast and take much longer. The potential energy between these two vessels pressurized the exact same internal pressure is also drastically different. Going further, assuming air/fuel ratio to be the same between the thimble and the drum, far more energy is available in the drum, even though pressure is exactly the same.
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  42. 285° (KTM 890 Duke R) and 315° (Husqvarna Nuda 900R) have also been used in the parallel twin.
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  43.  @MoistGrundle  And your proof of this end? I can say the climate is coming to an end (and such claims have been made for a hundred years), but such claims always fail and people grab hold of the next claim exactly like the last, never learning from liars.
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  44.  @farnarkleboy  Explain what the WEF is and whether they are benevolent or hostile in their plans.
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  45. Yes there's a problem: The lawmakers.
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  46. Torque is a rotational force. When the force moves an object, it becomes a measure of power (force, distance, and time). Simple as that. Your "bullet" animation was cute, but the brass cartridge doesn't go with the projectile (bullet). ;-) It's kind of interesting how horsepower became almost universally a measure resulting from a rotating object (engine, motor, etc) when originally the formulation was created involving an actual animal who uses tension (muscle fibers and tendons), bones, joints (kinesthetics) to produce a pulling force on a rope or such, to move a mass a certain distance in a certain amount of time. Torque would have been pointless in that system of determining a horsepower unit. Until expansion/combustion engines and electric motors came into existence, converting the expansion of gasses into a rotational force which in turn produces linear motion.
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  47. Lots of people are, but too many have their heads buried in the sands of big tech messaging and agenda, believing this to to be the reality of the public mind. It's not.
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  48. The paradox of man is that he denies a supreme creator made him, denies the complexity of a single blood cell. Denies the complexity of reproduction and new humans born. Then turns around and designs an ever more complex society within which to live.
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  49. I'd been watching pretty much all of your previous engine configuration videos, details about balance and so forth. I used to be a subscriber to F9 videos, but walked away (not due to this issue but other issues). I had seen his video on this subject matter, and while I found it compelling, I did not take it as gospel, partly because of learning what you've put out here, also drawing from my own mechanical engineering career and curiosity based research which affords me a little window into manufacturing processes (machining, heat-treating, plating, but not forging). Thank you for calling out a channel that typically gets nothing but praise, for something they have miscalculated and done wrong, claims that were made that weren't correct. Just because someone has high quality video production, a compelling story-telling format, and charismatic actors, doesn't make them scientifically, mathematically, or historically correct. I'm sure Ryan would agree his viewers should do their own independent critical thinking and research before taking what they say as absolute fact. Just wish more F9 fans would practice this instead of drooling on their keyboard over ever video they put out.
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  50. Perhaps a teaching career at the physics lab in a university would be suitable?
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