Ok so i seriously want to start learing about my engine and other engines and learn all this mumbo jumbo.... anyone have any suggestions on where to go and read or book or anythign?
Haynes manual is a good place to look for specifics, teardowns, and that kinda stuff.....For the j-body releated engines, ask around here, search around the forums. For other cars, try to find similar sites, a lot of the tuner community has sites like this one for their own cars to show off, get info, that kinda stuff.
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Looking around the forums, online and possibly some books will give you a good basic understanding of engines and there parts. I'd check out amazon and see what you can find. Read the reviews on books. Beyond that, the best way to learn is hand on experience. You can gain this from either a people you know who work on/mod their cars, or going to a trade school like BOCES. Good luck.
Wide Body Progress
If your not a book worm, and perfer hands on learning, Have a mechanicly inclined friend show you what he can, or find a junked car, lawnmower or something like that, and take it apart, and try to put it back together again.
how stuff works is a great site, not extemely detailed but gives you an overall universal explaination of how it works
Buy an old blown engine, buy a repair manual and learn. It will help you alot. That's how I learned.
I started with a chainsaw, then I did my mini bike and then I did my Gtz bumper to bumper twice.
Gilles
2.3 Ho
Junkyard engine for you to tear down or see if a friend has an old engine laying around. I learned by reading HOT ROD mag enough to do my first rebuild when I was 16 on a small block Chevy in my Monte Carlo.
Doing is the best way to learn.
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I started learning in high school. I know a lot of you guys on here are still at that age, I can say first hand automotive shop is a good class to take. You'll learn the basics, how an engine actually works, that type of thing. Pretty much every engine works relatively the same way: suck, squish, bang, blow. Once you understand internal combustion, then you can start to learn the specifics of the engine you have.
I was thinking about taking the class next year... and i have kind of startd on the hands on approach... i just talk with all my local car buddys and have them show me what they can, then when i go to the car shop i like to be there the whole time so i can watch and they explain what they are doing... it seems to be going well so far, just some things i just dont know... so Thnx everyone ( I also try and read a lot on here and ask questions.... if anyone knows lol like right now i have 13 posts left only this month!
Yep find an old motor and tear it down. Then put it back together and see if it works. Which would be probably not. Tear it down again and see why it wont and fix it. Its fun to do and its real hands on.
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Madjack wrote:Like I said before, building an engine like ours (2.2 or 2200) is a painstaking chore , since there is so few custom made parts. It's frustrating to me too, but that's what I like about doing this engine, it's the challenge.
take your car apart and see if you can put it back together
most definitly hands on, and more motors the marrier, you'll learn how manufacturer's have their dumb moments, and how some are geniouses.
i thought i knew something about ecotec mechanically b4 i had engine repair class...but once i got into tore down an ecotec 4 times and rebuilt it (had to do measurements like 20times everytime i rebuilt it.). learned much much more.
MY 2003 SUNFIRE 15.33@88.5mph
"A N/A ecotec is not gonna give Honda's and Mitsu's that much of a run for their
money unless their blown or bottle fed.GM is still smokin crack!"
~1QWKZ24
www.streetracing.org, 08/2001
