It's called an ENGINE...

I agree with all of the above,
The definition is great BTW

I call it whatever. it truly is a motor scientifically speaking.
I call em valve covers, as well as a 'Valley PAN".

I think I will also go get on my Enginecycle and ride to Las vegas to watch some "Engine sports" this month.


Lastly, does it even really matter fer fucks sakes? Call it what ya want long as we both know WTF yer talkin about!!


Scot

 

Ive alway wondered about "Damper".

I think its supposed to be Dampener,as in dampening engine vibrations/harmonics.

Im sure glad I sold my MOTORhome a few years ago!

 

Internal combustion engine...

"Motorsports" and "motorcycles" are just names... lables given to a group or "genre", if you will.
I do believe that engine is the correct term. No big deal... I just couldn't find any "Engine" threads in the Tech Archives... , and on top of that I just felt like starting a discussion... I'm all alone and it's cold outside...

"Valve" cover is one that I think got away from us a long time ago. Probably just because of the ease of saying it, or writing it...
Maybe it just saves letters in Ebay descriptions so there's room for "rat rod"...
The earliest engines had their rocker arms exposed. You had to hand oil them. Once they made self oiling pushrods they had to make a cover. A rocker arm cover.
Valve cover just became popular verbage...
...just like motor mount...





JOE

 

This topic is quite interesting to me as English isn´t my native language.
I´ve always wondered what the difference between "motor" and "engine" was , since there´s no difference in German whether or not it´s an electric motor or a combustion engine.... it´s all called "Motor" here... As in "Bayrische Motoren Werke"/ BMW
Chris

 

wrist pin.

 

I can't find my aspirin

I'll just hit my thumb with a hammer so the headache hurts less

 

I know what a gudgeon pin is and its use. But in reference to the post about Harmonic Dampers, the only thing on the front of my engines with grooves are called pulleys.

 

Not bad TWO corrections in less than 5 min.!
(it was a TEST!)

 

Guilt as charged,,,,,it's a southern thing,,,,kinda like MOTORSPORTS,,,instead of enginesports! HRP

 

Just remember a SOLENOID is NOT a starter relay. But a starter relay has a solenoid! Stu

 

Uhhhhh. No. The earliest engines did not have rocker arms, at all. They were called "flatheads" or "side valves". They may have had exposed valve stems, but if they were covered, they were covered by a VALVE COVER. Buick is credited with marketing the first overhead valve engine in 1908. By the way, the early Chevy four cylinder overhead valve engines had a cover before they were self oiling (at least as we currently would define self oiling...they dripped oil from a wick onto the rocker arm).

 

Actually both of you's are wrong. The proper name is crank damper. Which is on the front of an engine...not a motor.

 

Try explaining that to a 17 year old at an autoparts store!

 

The Romans called their catapaults & battering rams engines .
But so what who cares ?? I was taught that a motor is electric & an engine ran on fuel of some sort , but it never bothered me that people called a Car power plant a motor. You know what they are talking about ,thats what matters.

 

That is not correct. That should say, "Y'all are wrong."

 

Is it aluminum or metal?

Never mind.

 

i read enough of this..im going fishing out on my engineboat

 

Aluminium if you're in Britain. Stu

 

Na,na,nonook,,,it's.,,,,,,"Ya'll are wrong"

If ya think me wrong ask a southern english teacher,,,HRP

 

Yes, I stand corrected.

Earliest engines [of the type]...



JOE

 

Let's only CAPS have bills; HATS have brims. It's LUNCH not supper;....and on and on; Most folks don't care to be bothered with the english language any more! That's the main reason communication is often so difficult; no one wants to call anything what it is! An ENGINE powers a vehicle; a motor propels fan blades.......and so on.

 

Hey, if you have a valve at one end of the rocker, and a pushrod at the other side, why in the little round thing at the other end of the pushrod called a 'lifter'. Isn't it really a 'pusher', since it's 'pushing' the 'push-ROD'?
WOW -

 

Hey Stu,

I'm Jan " tbirdchick" from over at Ford Muscle.. I prefer and generally use the term 'motor', so ya wanna fight about it?.....

Have a good one...

 

Steppenwolf just doesn't sound right anymore..

Get your "engine" running

Head out on the "dual lane carraigeway"

Looking for "exciting or very unusual experience"

or whatever comes my way

Born to be... "somewhat unruly"

Stu

 

Goes back to the same reason that "rocker arm covers" are called "valve covers". They were both named BEFORE the advent of the rocker arm. On flathead engines, lifters DO lift the valve! Nobody tried to rename the "lifter" (as far as I know), so why would we accept a renaming of the "valve cover"?

 

Holy cabin fever, sub zero temps getting the best of the wisconsinites.

btw, I love my blown mottas.

 

junkyarddog 32 you're steppin' on some pretty touchy soil.... there's a lot of classic hybrid rodders on this forum that don't like to be messed with! haha

 

See ... I told you this would get the shit flying!
YOU'S is right to!

 

Hi Jan I recognise ya!

Naw, no fight here.

As I say they are both correct, Engine may be more specific to thermally produced power. But motor implies something that creates motive power regardless of how.

Calling an electric motor an engine would be incorrect. But I gues an electric train is driven by a motorman(or person) not an engineer!

Stu

 

My great-grandaddy called it a "motor", and if it was a motor then, its a motor now!