I think there should be a car board

Why not?? For discussing maintenance tips and talking about about favorite brands and sutff, that being said I don't own a car yet, but always a car enthusiast through my life.

Why not just make car threads here on OT? OT isn't the active board as it used to be, so no to Car Forum, keep it here in OT so it won't be a barren wasteland again. Feel free to make a car thread and I'll gladly post whatever's on your mind on the car.

@davillain-: then what about sports bar? They gave it a board of it's own.

@lucianocasanova: I hardly go to Sports Bar despite I rarely talk about sports these days. To be honest, is there a demanding for a car forum on it's own?

@davillain-: not that much, but I mean sports shouldn't have also moved there.

While I don't mind talking about cars (though I'm definitely not a maintenance person and not very experienced with parts) unfortunately these days, other forums are very bad ideas, OT needs all the activity it can get.

I live for cars, talk to me mate.

He's lying lol, he just secretly wants to entice you with candy so you join the blue oval.

@GTR12: Oh, you're good... too good..... I mean, what?

yeah, we should make a separate board for every subject because OT is WAY too crowded these days. great idea.

@BattleSpectre: Your Ford avy says otherwise. lol

TA-DA!!!

If I were to make a thread like what's your favorite car models, you'll be happy to tell me? Well then, I like cars myself and I won my first Car Show Trophy like 2 Months ago.

@davillain-: More details please and pics too.

@bmanva: The trophy that I won? Here ya go.

And I also post this pic on the old Roll Call sticky thread back then.

Nice, but honestly I can't think of single Chrysler that I really like.

well, if there were unions....

@davillain-: cool

I know a lot about computer hardware but very little about cars in general.

I'd like to know more but don't know where to start. Computers came naturally to me.

I'd be more then happy to tell you my favourite Ford model, but unfortunately anyone outside of Australia and New Zealand won't recognize or know it. Australia had (I say had because now it's shutting down) it's own performance division and my favourite was the F6 Typhoon which was a turbo variant. Oh and beautiful car by the way and congrats on the trophy, I quite like the Chryslers especially the SRT8 models which are a weapon.

You're harsh mate, haha.

Heck no. Let's not encourage hillbillyness

@BattleSpectre: Truth is harsh lol. Honestly they aren't bad, I like Saleen and Shelby.

Cars are simpler than computers IMO because they are mechanical mostly where as computer has both hardware and software (yes, modern cars have ECU but most time it's a simple matter of uploading a map). Pretty much everything I know about cars and bikes I learned from doing. And I'm able to rebuild motorcycles from frame and engine as well as internal engine work like cam chain replacement. Cars mechanical concepts are really easy to understand.

Car engines for example are combustion engines which just mean they are driven by pistons that get pushed and pulled by explosions (thus combustion) that take place inside cylindrical chambers. At the start of the process, the chamber is filled with air (from air intakes) and fuel (spray into the chamber), both amounts of which are controlled by a chip or ECU in modern cars. Then the spark plug does as the name suggests and ignite an explosion which push the piston and in turn drives a crank shaft. As one piston is pushed downward, another piston on the crank shaft is pushed up into its respective chamber. If an explosion previously already taken place, this effectively push out the smoke and carbon from the last explosion into series of pipes attached to the chambers (aka headers) and then into the cars exhaust system. This cycle of dual push action completes a revolution of crank shaft which drives the car via gear box (which is another topic). The tachometer on your car basically tells you how many revolution your engine (not your wheel) is making per minute (RPM). That's essentially the inner working of a car engine.

When we said v8 or inline 4, we are talking about the layout of the cyclinders. V8 is an engine that has 8 chambers set up in a V fashion (4 on each side). Inline 4 has all 4 chambers lined up vertically. Boxer engine has two sets of chambers lying flat against each other, the pistons go back and forth like boxers exchanging blows (thus the name). And when we say a car is 5.0 liter or a bike is 600cc (or cubic cm), we are talking about the combined volume of the chambers. For example, a 5.0liter V8 engine would have eight 0.675 liter chambers. Obviously bigger the chamber the more force at which the crank shaft is turned (aka torque). And then you have additional mechanisms that's designed to either increase the volume of air fuel mixture or accelerate the process, like super chargers or turbos.

See, pretty easy stuff.

@BattleSpectre That blue tuner rocks !

@davillain- I bet that Chrysler's LED lights rock at night !

This is my Muscle old skool !

http://www.camaros.net/forums/picture.php?albumid=198&pictureid=3166

@LexLas: That's tough mate, I love me some ol' school Camaro action.

@bmanva: Rebuild a GTR Nismo without computer knowledge, you wont get far ;)

@BattleSpectre: good to know.

If that's what mostly goes into an engine, doesn't seem that all that difficult; although in practice it may seem like a challenge to diagnose. I've got mostly 70% of what you said from previous experience with cars although you've summed it up pretty well for me to understand it even more, so I thank you for that.

@GTR12: I bet you can. Not 100% sure about nismo, but the chances are pretty good that it's a self containing unit just like factory GTR. In that case it's just matter of getting an unlocked version online and plug and play you just have a lot more components that needs to be connected to the master system. Sure, you don't have the level of control over performance of the car but it's a rebuilt, not tweak.

@thegerg: Ops, I made a typo there (so used to typing 675 cause that's my bike). Each cylinder is actually .625 liter because 5/8 = .625.
The model moniker isn't exact, but for advertisement sake the figures are often rounded up not down. So a 5.368 liter (.671x8) engine is more likely to be called a 5.4L v8 rather than a 5.0L v8.

Or you can just create an official car thread aimed specifically for cars. I mean, there's isn't enough threads about cars for it to have its own forum. Hell, even religion topics haven't gotten its own forum and it had way more topics based on it than there are car based threads....

The biggest problem Gamespot forums has always faced is too many boards. Condensing down the number of them increases traffic, and Gamespot desperately needs traffic these days.

@foxhound_fox: ok