How Long Does a Car Motor Last?

That is a question that could have several answers. So many items can play into the lifespan of an engine. Did you buy the vehicle new? What type of maintenance did the engine have? What is the vehicle used for? And then you have variables you can’t predict. So, how long does a car [...]

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Who Invented the Motor Car?

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This is kind of a loaded question, which could warrant a much longer answer. OK, The key being “motor car”. Asking, what type of motor do you mean? An ICE [internal combustion engine], such as the type of engines used since the turn of the century? Steam cars, which [...]

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I was stretching the muscles in my Porsche…

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and the motor purring and egging me on to take it up a few MPH, but I was cruising at 80 mph, and that was enough. I don’t drive the car very much. It is a 1970 911RS with the Bosh electric fuel injection used on ’77 [...]

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Interference motors” “engines and Timing Belts

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interference engines are an engine design that has been avoided by some manufacturers for as long as technically possible. General Motors, Chrysler, etc., typically use a metal chain-type timing chain on push-rod engines (not a timing belt) to transmit torque from the engine crankshaft of the [...]

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1957 Plymouth Burried for 50 Years Unearthed.

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picture courtesy of New York Times Here is a nice story I saw in the New York Times newspaper about a car that ended up in New Jersey an hour west of New York City. A car buried in Oklahoma in 1957, dug up there in 2007 and then shipped [...]

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Motors” “Engines-What is the difference?

Originally, in the 1800’s, the term engines and the term motors were used to differentiate between the well known steam engines and ‘new‘ design of power-plant called gasoline or diesel engines. The reasoning behind this was that gasoline or diesel engines were new at the time. In order for people to be able to distinguish [...]

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