Random Thought Thread

Mendoman said:
If you use a rope in the cylinder to stop a piston from moving while working on an engine, make sure it doesn’t go to far and get jammed in the exhaust port. Your engine will be seized and a simple repair will be exponentially more complicated and expensive. Just a little tidbit of advice that I wish I learned from advice and not from experience.
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Maybe you coulda thrown some gas in there and burned out the rope to ash?

Nathan the Machinist said:
This boat is freaking huge, it's the size of an aircraft carrier.

The ocean has some pretty large swells right now and I was afraid I was going to get queasy but I'm doing okay. This enormous ship doesn't really sway much.
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Our cruise was on the Norwegian Pearl, which had a freaking bowling alley on one end and a huge auditorium on the other end, and a large Spa that we spent hours in every day soaking and relaxing while sailing.

dericdesmond said:
Oh shit it really does have a turbo? 🤦🏼‍♂️ Looked stock/basic🙃
I still hate it.
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Nathan the Machinist said:
Yeah, they were cool cars. Pretty quick for their day and lighter and vastly simpler than cars today. Slick 5-speed transmission, over 200 horsepower, and not too heavy.

Kids these days don't know what they're missing. Cars are mostly big heavy smush boxes anymore. The idea of feeling the road through the steering wheel is a foreign concept. These cars are definitely not state-of-the-art, but sometimes things like drive-by-wire don't make the car better.

For example, a late '80s Taurus SHO or a 90s probe GT is a lot of fun to drive. I will die on this hill.
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yoko said:
Those old SHO redlined I think around 7k rpm , my buddy had one when I was younger

And those old JDM AWD were crazy from a launch, if they didn't break
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I bought a used Eclipse Turbo with 78K miles, and got to autocross it once before the timing belt broke and bent the valves. Before that I had an early 90's Taurus SHO that I loved (142MPH on the speedo maxed out) but it didn't handle as well as I'd have liked. That Yamaha motor in there just screamed at redline!
 
Doing 20 knots in an "Irish Pub" drinking Japanese whisky, waiting on a tall beautiful blonde woman to appear as if by magic so we can celebrate 30, watching the North Pacific roll by. I think I'm a full day behind Nathan the Machinist Nathan the Machinist & Jo the Machinist Jo the Machinist but catching them isn't looking good. Sinead O'Connor covers by actual Irish musicians supposed to start soon. Maybe I can get them to channel Dolores O'Riordan. Ob.kniv: only have a Leatherman with a 2.5" blade on me.
 
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