I got in trouble for topic-drift before.
But there's ramble potential in the following, from the For my Canadian friends topic:
A Chevy Corvette w/ a 427 (7 liter) engine is over-powered. And popular.
My problem with turbochargers in public roadway automobiles is the reputation turbos earned (I've never owned one) for bad design.
Reportedly passenger car turbochargers are prone to bearing failure. This is attributed to the turbocharger shutting down when the engine is shut down, while the turbo is still at high operating temperature, and in need of lubrication / oil circulation.
Whether in the new millennium consumer-grade turbochargers have been designed to be as reliable and low maintenance as the rest of the engine, I do not know.
Pouring motor oil into the fuel tank does lack allure.
In the '50's the Saab was like that, and smoked visibly, and even ran with the familiar 2 stroke stumble.
In the '50's gasoline pump islands often included stacked displays of 1 quart metal cans of 10W-30 motor oil, as a practical necessity.
But the horsepower to weight ratio indeed did favor it, in motorcycles, and outboard motors. I've never seen a 4 stroke chainsaw.
Emissions killed the Trabant?
I suspect VW, Toyota, Nissan ... killed the Trabant.
The market serves similar function to politburo central planning. BUT !
Instead of politburo politicians, the market uses automotive engineers.
The Soviet politburo was structured by and populated by nincompoops.
I gather China's politburo is a tiny fraction the size of the Soviet's, and more skillfully operated. But it's still central planning, and thus has its own intrinsic limitations.
And those intrinsic politburo limitations are progressively more consequential as the rate of change in human civilization increases exponentially.
But authoritarian ideology still impairs China's model. Seems to me some of the most successful aspects of China
are the most Westernized / commercialized.
Whether Sum Dum Phuk will ever figure that out ... ?
But there's ramble potential in the following, from the For my Canadian friends topic:
Yes.
A Chevy Corvette w/ a 427 (7 liter) engine is over-powered. And popular.
My problem with turbochargers in public roadway automobiles is the reputation turbos earned (I've never owned one) for bad design.
Reportedly passenger car turbochargers are prone to bearing failure. This is attributed to the turbocharger shutting down when the engine is shut down, while the turbo is still at high operating temperature, and in need of lubrication / oil circulation.
Whether in the new millennium consumer-grade turbochargers have been designed to be as reliable and low maintenance as the rest of the engine, I do not know.
Pouring motor oil into the fuel tank does lack allure.
In the '50's the Saab was like that, and smoked visibly, and even ran with the familiar 2 stroke stumble.
In the '50's gasoline pump islands often included stacked displays of 1 quart metal cans of 10W-30 motor oil, as a practical necessity.
But the horsepower to weight ratio indeed did favor it, in motorcycles, and outboard motors. I've never seen a 4 stroke chainsaw.
Emissions killed the Trabant?
I suspect VW, Toyota, Nissan ... killed the Trabant.
The market serves similar function to politburo central planning. BUT !
Instead of politburo politicians, the market uses automotive engineers.
The Soviet politburo was structured by and populated by nincompoops.
I gather China's politburo is a tiny fraction the size of the Soviet's, and more skillfully operated. But it's still central planning, and thus has its own intrinsic limitations.
And those intrinsic politburo limitations are progressively more consequential as the rate of change in human civilization increases exponentially.
But authoritarian ideology still impairs China's model. Seems to me some of the most successful aspects of China
are the most Westernized / commercialized.
Whether Sum Dum Phuk will ever figure that out ... ?
