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 Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:12 pm
Why is it nowadays most people are calling engines motors? From my understanding, a engine and a motor, while somewhat similar, are also different fundamentally. When I hear motor, I think of:
Running by either ac or dc power
No actual moving parts except for the shaft
While fast, doesn't have the torque to make something made out of sheet metal and fiberglass move at amazing speeds.
And when I hear engine, I think of:
Something that is powered by either gasoline or steam
Dozens of moving parts
Set up properly, you can have the idea speed, as well as the proper torque to make your car own another car.
And on a personal note, engine just sounds cooler than motor.
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:22 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:37 pm
I usually just refer to the engine/motor as a set up.
"Dude, what kinda setup you got under the hood?"
"Blah blah blah this and that"
"Cool"
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:05 pm
Umm... electric motors can produce a**-loads of torque from insanely low "RPM." More than an ICE, if I recall correctly.
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:18 pm
Millefune Umm... electric motors can produce a**-loads of torque from insanely low "RPM." More than an ICE, if I recall correctly.
Not something you see everyday on a normal car, though. ninja
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:28 pm
chaos.ultima.mage Millefune Umm... electric motors can produce a**-loads of torque from insanely low "RPM." More than an ICE, if I recall correctly. Not something you see everyday on a normal car, though. ninja Here in California, I see hybrids with electric motors every day I drive. razz And if the greenies have their way, hybrids will be normal everyday cars. *Barfs.*
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:33 pm
Electric motors produce way more torque than even diesel engines. It's top end hp that they have none of and why top speed is limited.
I love the idea of hybrid cars just not the prius-ish crap. DSM was doing a EVO/ Eclispe hybrid that would have had in-wheel electric motors powering the rear wheel for launch. then having the ICE takeover at higher rpms when its in its powerband. It's the perfect solution for smaller displacement engines with little low end torque. I haven't heard the term ICE used for engines in forever BTW.
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:42 pm
If I won the Lotto, one of the first things I would do is build an RX-7 hybrid.
Run a big turbo, bridge ported 13b, 15k redline, and peaky as hell!!!1
what about turbo lag and drivability???? Well That electric motor with 400 ft/lbs of torque off idle should cure that. twisted
You guys should Google or Youtube "Eliica" It's been one of my favorite cars for almost 4 yrs now.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:33 am
Yer this IS pretty confusing. Both terms get used pretty often, just figured everyone was just finding the correct way around: by using whichever was easier(ie. took less lunch energy) to work into the sentence at the time. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:43 am
I thought they were synonyms and mean the same thing. Isn't there a magazien called motortrend thats about cars?
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:22 am
Yeah they're pretty interchangeable to me, along with "mill", "power plant", "that under the bonnet thing", ect...
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:28 am
Millefune chaos.ultima.mage Millefune Umm... electric motors can produce a**-loads of torque from insanely low "RPM." More than an ICE, if I recall correctly. Not something you see everyday on a normal car, though. ninja Here in California, I see hybrids with electric motors every day I drive. razz And if the greenies have their way, hybrids will be normal everyday cars. *Barfs.*
I do indeed forget that the rest of the world is far technologically superior to South Carolina... crying
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:05 pm
Even though they may mean different things, when someone says motor and they are referring to a car, we all know what it means, but if they say in in general I would think of it as something for a appliance too.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:15 pm
What?! I'm the only one who's voted "motor?" Dictionary dot COM Motor (noun) 1. a comparatively small and powerful engine, esp. an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like. 2. any self-powered vehicle. 3. a person or thing that imparts motion, esp. a contrivance, as a steam engine, that receives and modifies energy from some natural source in order to utilize it in driving machinery. 4. Also called electric motor. Electricity. a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor. 5. motors, stocks or bonds in automobile companies. –adjective 6. pertaining to or operated by a motor. 7. of, for, by, or pertaining to motor vehicles: motor freight. 8. designed or for automobiles, their drivers, or their passengers: The hotel has a motor lobby in its parking garage for picking up and discharging passengers. 9. causing or producing motion. 10. Physiology. conveying an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve. 11. Psychology, Physiology. Also, motoric. of, pertaining to, or involving muscular movement: a motor response; motor images. –verb (used without object) 12. to ride or travel in an automobile; drive: They motored up the coast. –verb (used with object) 13. Chiefly British. to drive or transport by car: He motored his son to school. An ICE (internal combustion engine) is a type of motor. And yes, ICE is an old term... from back in my day, when we still used horses and steam engines, and ICEs weren't commonplace. :p
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Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:53 am
Man, I'm gonna go and ask a shop that's NOT performance-oriented if "they can help me remove the ICE from the engine bay." If I don't post here for three weeks it probably means they had me arrested rofl
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