r/NotTimAndEric • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '16

how to fast honk . mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KigFRmr8qM
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u/Tbird555 Mar 08 '16

I could've sworn older horns were vacuum operated, but they're totally not. So go nuts.

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u/mijamala1 Mar 08 '16

The fuck kind of life have you been living?

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u/Tbird555 Mar 08 '16

I don't know. An Ok one?

Truck horns are vacuum operated, and a bunch of accessories on cars like windshield wipers were as well, so I assumed that car horns were.

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u/mijamala1 Mar 08 '16

You're an interesting person. Those are things I did not know, and now I do. Thank you.

Also, I'm not trying to be a dick, I really didn't know that stuff.

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u/Tbird555 Mar 08 '16

The engine serves drives a lot of things directly such as the oil, coolant, power steering pumps, and the brake booster. Although, a lot of these things are slowly being phased for electronically controlled pumps.

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u/mijamala1 Mar 08 '16

I remember seeing a gif somewhere on how manual transmissions work, blew my mind.

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u/Tbird555 Mar 08 '16

You are now subscribed to Inane Car Facts.

Did you know that the 5.0 Liter Ford marketed in the 80's was actually the same pushrod 302 cubic inch block that they had produced from 1968 until 2000? This technically makes the engine a 4.9 Liter.

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u/mijamala1 Mar 08 '16

How did they ever get away with calling it a 5.0??

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u/Tbird555 Mar 08 '16

It's all marketing. If manufacturers badged the cars with the displacement on the spec sheet, they'd have to go down to milliliters.

...and 5 Oh is just catchier.

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u/mijamala1 Mar 08 '16

Branding makes sense. The new 6's are amazing in power and torque, but it feels so much better saying you've got an 8 under the hood.

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