Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Some interesting reading

Must check these out guys!

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=348107&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20

Look at the shape of this car.. What/who do you think influenced it?

http://www.heinkelscooter.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/tatras-streamliners-yesterdays-car-of.html

Check out the Tatra.. An early design which helped to shape the Beetle. ICONIC!

http://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2012/03/volkswagen-world-beating-peoples-car.html

Here is the history of how the beetle came to be. Very thorough and alot of predecessors.

http://wot.motortrend.com/gm-plans-roll-out-of-rust-resistant-brake-rotors-on-selected-models-140867.html

This is how brake rotors are mass produced..... HOLY COW!

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem99/chem99583.htm

Wanted to see a little bit of chemistry relating to Gasoline Combustion?

https://www.speedhunters.com/2012/09/an-american-in-the-uk/

Drifting in the UK? Check out SpeedHunters.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Revival of the Engine!!!

Today we revived the engine of this old bug, everyone did a great job, many thanks to Jeff and Dino for the parts they supplied us with and  Mr.Gamarra for leading us to this wonderful moment!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Home work

Read pages 1,2,3 and check out 4 to see if you understand any of it.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine.htm

Bring in 3 questions to use in discussion during class. I will check to see if you have your three questions.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Old machines

I was visiting a pal of mine who is in the business of buying/servicing/selling machine equipment. What a great place to explore.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Bug on Bug

Surfin' the internet again and i found this funny little picture from Google maps. How do you guys think they got it like this?

Manual on a boat engine

So I was searching through the internet, and found an owners manual on a boat engine such as the one in the above engine. For all you seagoers out there, I hope this helps!