Real Mechanic Breaks Down Inaccurate Movie Scenes
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- We asked real mechanics to break down some of the worst movie mechanic scenes we could find on the internet.
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I'm proud of you guys for not including a single fast and the furious scene
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They have videos dedicated to FF on their main channel there is no need to reuse them here.
They made it already
It's such trash, the human lifespan is too short to go over everything wrong with those films.
That would've been 100% shop class
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Being a car enthusiast, I was looking for this comment to see if I was gonna talk about it.
I was going to say the same thing myself. My brother has a 28 T runabout. Great grandpa bough it new, grandpa kept it in the back of the garage, and built a bunch of shaker coils for it. Dad died young, and now Alex has it. We all learned to drive it as kids. We run it off coleman camp fuel and lead additive usually, but it will run off pretty much anything that will burn.
I got a kick out of that scene.
You'd probably get a lot of pinging running a T on straight moonshine, you would probably want to water the fuel down to about 100 proof or so, and retard the spark like... All of it. But yep. It would definitely run.
Another fun fact, related to yours...The biggest financiers of Prohibition were Big Oil Companies, to force automakers to only run on petroleum products
AFAIK he went the other way around at some point because of religion and being pro prohibition
nice to have sandro who’s the goofy guy and paul the bit more serious guy. It’s like opposite attraction, even balance.
"perfectly balanced, as all thing should be"
I like Sandra He is real og LA brat
paul used to be more serious but now he has more fun with the sessions and recording
Much better than the backstreet boy douchebag they still have for some reason
Sandro is the man, Paul is the man.
Fun fact: for the italian job I remember they had to purchase like 42 Mini Cooper due to the stunts destroying the cars
kinda impressive that it was only 42
The also destroyed that film.
The original is so much bettter.
Correction I had wrong by 10. They used 32
Also they had to make them into EVs to be allowed to drive them in the la underground. The first ev minis
@@Seb-Storm is the king of accurate information. Great work.
i did some quick math. that '6inch steel plate' would be around 3600 pounds. as heavy as the car itself, all hanging on the back of it. id be amazed of the front tires touched the ground
So they can do burnout wheelies like Dom in fast 1😎 lol😆
It's actually just filled with ramen noodles
yea but Jason's massive pecs balance that mofo out, added to the girl riding shotgun with the massive milk wagons
If it's only as heavy as the car itself, it won't lift the front tires. Plus, there's also two rotary canons on the front that'd help counterbalance more. Not to mention whatever ammunition you have for them.
@@bandana_girl6507 yeah but all that weight is behind the trunk, putting center of gravity way back. sure i didnt account for the guns but those would be like 500 pounds max, MAYBE 1000 with ammo. they're not a solid block of steel like the tomb stone is. plus they're not on the opposite side of the wheels like the block is
Matilda, written by Roald Dahl was based in the uk and written at a time when running the odo back via drill was common practice in the uk. To be fair, all 3 elements in that scene were well known to happen back in the day…
Sandro, I love him but I didn’t realize how long it’s been since we saw Paul. His dead pan delivery is great haha - must be casual Fridays in the garage/studio lol this episode.
Great to see them both!
Paul, Sandro, and Angelina are the dream team.
In Australia it was common practice to cut a car in half if it was in an accident. You'd get rear ended and the smash repairs would cut your car in half and replace the back end with the back end of another car (same model obviously). They made this illegal in the early 00s maybe even late 90s. My first car (Gemini) was two cars in one. And it did split cleanly in half when I got into a minor accident
i work in collision repair and i’ve only ever seen a vehicle break in half three times. first time was a pickup that had a horribly rusted body so when it got rear ended, the bed just separated from the cab. other two times were sedans- one was a challenger that slammed into the back of a box truck while running from the cops & broke in half from the force. the other was a sedan (i don’t remember make/model) who was hit in the front left rear well after running a red light (also running from the cops). technically the car didn’t break in half but it catapulted the engine several hundred feet away. i’m sure you’ll be surprised to hear that everyone in these accidents survived- the guy in the sedan had a broken leg and the girl driving the challenger became a paraplegic but she’s lucky considering she slammed into a stationary box truck going over 100mph without a seatbelt on (there’s dashcam footage of the events leading up to the crash & the aftermath and you can hear the cops immediately call for an ambulance and said to have the coroner on standby bc he was sure she died. the state this all happened in requires a medical professional to confirm death before a coroner can be sent out, which is why the cop said to keep coroner on standby)
I saw a nascar split in half during my first in person nascar race, was pretty cool.
@@dylaroo24 how? that would mean the roll cage broke as well, no?
@@damp2269 it was so long ago, I can’t exactly remember how, I just remember seeing half a nascar being lifted on to the back of truck and taken off the track.
@@damp2269 The race was Pocono, sometime around 2007-8. The car was some kind of blue decal, I can remember the number or driver. I just remember seeing the car being driven away by truck, the crash happened on the back straight so I didn’t see the crash itself, only the car being taken away and seeing it pop out from around turn 3. I was at the finish line from my seat.
To be fair, the coneheads are aliens so it makes sense she would say things oddly.
That was my thought. He said "It's technically correct. It's just not how we would say it." Well she is an alien and look at how her father talks, so I think it's smart writing.
Agree!!!!!!
They need to watch the movie.
I came to comment they needed to watch the movie for it to make sense.
They are not aliens.
They are from the south of France.
4:31 The spedometer thing absolutely "does" work on old cars with a spedometer cable. 😀 It does not reverse the mileage anywhere as fast as it shows in the clip. Newer cars under 30 years or so usually use a speed sensor in the transmission. It uses a sine wave, hall effect or optical signal to increase the odometer. You can't drive in reveres to lower the mileage because it doesn't know or care what direction you are moving.
Yep, seen that on an Nissan Micra K11 driving backwards. Never thougt that could work but my Buddy showed me on his little red rocket^^
Easier to pull the odo and move the numbers (old cars) by hand . I never did this.
You know it's a good show when at the end you go all like "Aw, dude...C'mon, gimme like another ten minutes of this"😆
I'm surprised Marisa Tomei's scene about the tire tracks from My Cousin Vinny wasn't in it. Always love seeing Sandro.
Love her
They'd have to find a '55 Bel-Air with a factory 327 in it...IYKYK ;)
"The defense is rowung"
@@paulhare662 Thay wHer! But, thairs moa'rr! The two youts would agree as well.😂
Sandro makes this channel worth watching. Keep him on the show!
Absolutely....for the boys:D
And that blonde guy makes it almost unwatchable. Great balance
Only here for Sandro 🤘 For tha Boyz
Sandro is my fave.
@@Furko08 whos that
Sandro got a producer in trouble with that "What part of this is mechanical?" question. Someone absolutely looked at the person who added the clip and asked that again.
It's always a great video when Sandro is on. Working with him would be such a blast.
"Are we doing this the right way or are we doing it for the boys?"
Such a great combo of humor and expertise
The cut-in-half Renault actually works. The guys from Top Gear tested it. With the fuel left in the lines and the filter, you can drive for a short while.
But I would question Bond's ability to steer the car. The front wheels will turn, but the body won't track so the whole thing will crab. Or something. But then again, he is Bond, James Bond so it will probably work.
@@dougerrohmer Cutting a car in half, adding a fuel system, and driving it exactly like how Bond does is something I've seen people do to smashed up old FWD cars. It's a little snakey but the back end rubs on the ground causing drag, which makes the "car" surprisingly controllable.
@@dougerrohmer The fuel in the lines won't last a minute.
You will also lose all brake pressure so lets hope you don't have to slow down before the fuel runs out.
@@BigUriel He's Bond, James Bond. Q gave him a fountain pen with reserve fuel supply built in, and he'd just throw the baddies under the front wheels to stop.
@@BigUrielBrake pressure is not a problem because it's so light, and takes so much drag, it just stops easily.
@11:15 - The Coneheads thing actually makes sense. They're aliens. They're supposed to be a "smarter" life form. So referring to an alignment machine to it's parts (Hydraulic, Digital, Radiometer (which i'm guessing refers to the wireless transmission)) kind of ties things together. Then his response is spot on of course because even though he doesn't know what she's saying exactly he knows why he wasn't doing it. 10/10 movie. definitely recommend.
I was going to say this. The Coneheads were aliens and didn't do (or say) things conventionally, which is what makes it a comedy. I still remember that scene where the husband and wife were talking in bed and the camera slowly panned out to show they were standing against a wall instead of laying in bed. Good stuff.
You have great sentence structure
Thank you ..they definitely missed the comedy aspect of the movie👍
Coneheads is a classic... I remember my little cousin blurting out "My dad buys that kind of gum! He keeps it in a drawer with moms hand massagers."
I haven't been in many shops, but the shops I have seen that have alignment capabilities use light, not radio. Basically you put reflectors on the front wheels in front of the machine then turn the wheels back and forth and it will tell you all you need to know on the computer.
Ok, I have to argue about one point made during the cone head scene. "I think what she is saying does technically make sense, but is not phrased in a way anyone would ever say." your absolutely right and that is the point, she is an alien and thus not accustom to what people would actually talk like.
I think a counter argument to this would be, based on how the movie portrayed the daughter, she would be the one least likely to have a more alien way of communicating. If that scene was her dad it would 100% make more sense. With the daughter spending her entire life on Earth her communication would/should match that of humans...as did everything else about her.
@@rdroodypoo A good point, I would counter that though with normally she is trying to fit in, in these scene she is not wanting to be taken advantage of. She normally avoids conflicts but here where she is facing one and without being accustom to it defaults to what she has seen most, like her father.
But to be fair I think I'm splitting hairs with my counter argument.
Google ‘argue’ for me. You may have done the exact opposite, my friend. And I love that for you. #charliework
@@rdroodypoonerd.
@@justajabronie Nice name. fitting.
Everytime Sandro is on, I feel the urge to do something for the boys.
he makes me want a 40 of Mickey's
Roll one up.
The other detail about the Italian Job, those Minis were carrying a lot of weight with all those gold bars.
They tested that half-car thing from James Bond on Top Gear, as I recall. You can make the car work, but controlling it is basically impossible.
My only gripe on Matilda is that it takes place in the '70s or '80s, when engine computers weren't a thing, and mechanical odometer fraud was a huge dang deal. The movie itself came out in 1996 so that would've been well within the realm of possibility on used cars. Especially pre-OBDII.
I used to have a favorite, but everyone on the show is so good. Ms. A and Sandro are legends, but Paul is underrated imo
Engine Masters did a test on oil pans and horsepower. While not a big jump, A good oil pan with kick-outs to reduce windage and a scraper to get oil off the crank will add power.
All the scenes in The Italian Job are technically realistic because they actually did them, but they went through 32 cars because they didn't usually survive.
I mean, if they had to break 1 per shot, that means it's not possible to keep driving after these stunts. Unfortunately they're still in shop class
My dad actually rolled back the odometer on their MP truck when he was stationed in Hawaii by driving backwards goofing off. This was during the 60's though. His Master Sargent was not pleased when he checked it in and he went negative miles during his patrol.
There are several cars that run the odometer backwards.
But it's really slow and would take days on a speed where modern plastic gauges would survive
My buddy had an 85 4 runner, which was totalled in a car accident. He out a ton of work into it, rebuilt engine ECT. So he purchased the car back, and got another one with a out 2k more miles. Just for fun, while we had the engine out, we tried running a drill on the soeedo cable, and it did lower it.
We looked a zip tie to the drill handle, and took a break working on the car, and after 2 hours, it only dropped like 50 miles. Fyi, in my state, odometer is only recorded for the first 10 years.
@@felixchausyou could try the electric drill one
@@antoniohagopian213 Oh sorry, I edited my text.
And yes I have tried the drill one and it didn't work.
In few hours it took only less than few hundred miles and the gauge started to make a klicking sound even when running to the correct way.
On a gauge that had a broken speedo I tried running the drill on full speed and the lack of bearings melted the plastic on the numbers axle.
Yeah it will only not work on newer cars.
Haha, love the ending, that 6" steel plate would weigh around 4.5 tons. In fact I bet it would have the front end up in the air lol
If it's about 3 ft tall, by 4 ft wide, it comes out to 1.46 tons at 6" thick. (Carbon steel being .2818 lb/in^3)
Even then, still unmanageable.
@@iowafarmboy Still probably pulling the nose off the ground given that the whole car weight was probably less than that before adding the shield. At the very least, that would be a handling nightmare...
@@iowafarmboy should be more like 6' by 4' IMO, or 12 cubic feet. I checked and 1 cubic foot is 490lbs, so 6k or 3 tons, so yeah, off but just making a fun point
@@reaganharder1480 but you're not accounting for jason stethams (how ever it's spelt) massive balls. they're the offset. The question is where are you driving this, cause if it ain't a straight down steep af hill you're not moving.
8:50 Seeing that Escort GT get crushed is the most painful thing I've seen all year.
9:32 - I disagree about no damage on the Hummer H1. Unless they modified the hood from the military version (aside from noise reduction), the hood would be laying in pieces in the street after the first hit. Those things are light plastic or fiberglass, and they get torn up REALLY easily (ask me how I know).
Aside from that, though, with the hits they showed? Yeah, she'll keep runnin' for ya.
How do you know?
Quick UK car history lesson : A _”ringer”_ or a _”cut and shut”_ refers to a car that is made from two other cars… Usually two of the same model that have been in an accident, poorly re-welded and sold as a repaired car… absolutely illegal and lethal, but it happened.
What happened in that James Bond movie happened regularly to ringed cars, often without needing an accident.
I think a better scene from Fury Road would have been when our Warboy is crawling up next to a pair of engines and effecting repairs while they're still running. Probably possible, but holy hell that would take a ballsy engineer.
Werent uncommon at all on early planes.... on some they had to as maintenance ....
Older cars used to be hot tuned, that is, it rolled into the shop, still running the mechanic would take the valve covers off, adjust the valves, put the covers back on, adjust the fuel in the carby, and fine tune the dizzy, add a dash of oil back in and slap the car on its arse as it drove back out.
If all nux was doing for repairs was tying patches of hose over leaking lines, filling in cracks in the pan, and adjusting the belts I’d believe it. You can do a surprisingly large amount of repairs without stopping the engine.
Paul looks like that very big hearted mechanic you'll run into when your car breaks down right in the middle of the Texas/Louisiana heat and you got only 12 dollars in your pocket but he's gonna be happy to fix your car for free. ❤
The Coneheads clip wasn't bad writing, its the point of ther joke. The whole point of the original skits was that they refer to everything by the literal definition of stuff like calling a potato a vessel for sustenance.
I didnt know Danny Trejo ran an auto shop.
6:29 everything at this part us after the heist. Each car was carrying like 3,000 lbs of gold or whatever from the vault.
So, each was about 3,000lbs give or take. Then they lost 200lbs. Then they added a 200lb driver, then 3,000lbs of loot. THEN the cars were flying around as 6,000lb minis.
And, only one of those minis was an S. The others were base model mini coopers with normal aspiration.
9:00 Sandro’s reaction: Priceless 😂
😂😂😂 “it’s levitating “ hahahahah
With the second clip. That's the beautiful thing about old movies. There was no CG. They rigged up that car to split in half when it got hit. I believe they moved the gas tank under the hood and had just enough gas to do a couple of takes
Now for a pet peeve of mine. People always say “The customer is always right “, but that’s just part of the quote. I was told the quote is “As for what the customer wants, the customer is always right.” That puts a whole different spin on the quote. The person who first told me that said that the job of the salesman was to help the customer understand what he needs not just what he wants.
I've heard "The customer is always right, in matters of taste"
Same as the "Jack of all trades"
@@CyberGenesis1 Isn’t that one “Jack of all trades, master of none “?
@@GameFaceFail That works also.
@@stevedavis5704 "Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."
Wait is Sandro a vampire? He has fangs. Awesome! Explains how he knows so much about everything.
Including being French!
the speedometer drill thing does work on older cars. Pre-80s has been my experience.
I remember it was the year that I graduated high school early and I'm chilling over at a friends house. He puts in Lawless and I was so excited when the moonshine as emergency fuel scene came up. I was immediately like "put the alcohol in the tank!". Loved it. I also love Mad Max Fury Road. My mind always assumed it was alcohol and guzzlene they were spraying into the intake. I feel like Rick and Morty's Mad Max themed episode did it justice with the getting a mouthful from the flask and spraying it in the intake.
Dude I worked on Lawless back in 2011 I think as a lighting tech! So happy to see you guys break that scene down with the moonshine bc I always wondered about that. 🍻
Thanks for throwing in the Days of Thunder scene in for us old folks!
If you are going to show a clip from a James Bond film show that part where a semi truck's frame breaks in half swivels up "for a wheelie" then swivels back down and the truck is fine. I think the movie was called License to Kill.
To change a millage reading on an older car takes a long time with a drill. I knew a guy that bought a replacement and wanted it to read the same, it took it 18 plus hours and it wasn't even that far off. He said he wouldn't have bothered if he had to do from scratch.
On older car when I replace the odo because it's broken or unreadable, to match the milage it's much faster to move the numbers by hand either by going forward or if you lift the finger that moves the rolls you can roll it back or forward without influencing the next roll up.
My grandfather had a white gas car, the would start with Ethyl, he put a tank in the glove box and ran piping laid across the manifold to heat the white gas and it terminated at the carb.
He would start the car with regular gas and then, once warm, switch over to the white gas.
Back then, Ethyl was 5 cents a gallon, white gas was 1 cent for 5 gallons.
BTW white gas is now called Coleman fuel.
Cut and shunts were cars that were made of two halves that were welded together and not well. They were around like nearly 30 years ago during my early childhood in the UK although I don't recall hearing about any cars breaking like the one in the bond film. The car might have ran for a short while in the film as I do remember on a tv show called Scrapheap Challenge where they did a challenge based around limited fuel run.
Oh man, Scrapheap Challenge was a fantastic show, I used to love the wild challenges
The full saying is "The customer is always right in matters of taste."
"I'm gonna damage that pocket.." 🤣🤣🤣
I mean that's kind of the point of Coneheads, they're aliens that talk in a very technical way that sounds off to the normal person. Thus providing for much of laughter and hijinks that follows.
4:50 I guess they mechanics forgot one thing - the time when the movie was playing. You can't turn a odometer backwards in a newer car, but that was a movie playing at a time where most cars were a 100% mechanic and no electronic. Lowering the mileage that way worked.
One of my favorite things about The Italian Job is that each of the minis has a slightly different engine sound dubbed, and IIRC the blue one sounds suspiciously subaru-like ;)
The Ford vs Ferrari was great advice and glad you included it.
Pretty sure its water injection in the mad max carburetor, Before the fuel ignites, a fine mist of water is injected into the intake duct. Water's high vaporisation point means that it provides effective cooling
Really love this channel for it's accuracy 💯
The first one is totally 💯 realistic I’ve actually don’t that with spray bottle (minus spitting the fuel with my mouth) the fuel pump died out n my dads truck and we needed to move it around the property to the garage and the easiest way was for me to sit in the front bumper and spray fuel into the carb
It moved without a problem you just had to constantly spray the fuel in
Edit I forgot to mention the truck was throttle body
They could also be spitting something a bit more volatile in to boost combustion, like kerosene or nitromethane
"Imma damage that pocket" lmfao
With Days of Thunder, you guys missed one of the most famous cheats in racing back in the day they turned parts of the roll cage into the fuel line for additional fuel storage.
Back in the early 90s, one of my uncles had a 70-something Toyota Corolla. It was really rustic, and it had plywood on the floor covering up some of the larger holes. One day, he let his sister borrow it. She drove over a speed bump, leaving the grocery store, and it literally bent in half. She called him from a pay phone to tell him what happened. I remember him saying, "Now,what happened? Does it still drive? Well, drive it back here then cuz I don't have free towing. About 15 minutes later, she came pulling in the driveway, and it was sagging in the middle like a sway back horse. I think the roof was the main thing preventing it from breaking completely in two. That's probably pretty common in the rust belt? I've never seen badly rusted out vehicles like that out here on the West Coast.
mechanics: you can't glue the bumper on
lotus: in a corner gluing the whole car on since the 90's
Paul must be like the Maytag Repairman owning a Lexus and Toyota repair shop.
Those two legends don't need anything but regular maintenance to go the distance.
AVTAK: It's a 1983 Renault 11 and the fuel pump was mechanical powered by the engine. It would probably still be able to suck what fuel is left in the lines for the amount of time it was still running (we don't run super gas guzzlers on this side of the pond). When the film was made (1985) it was highly reported of dodgy car dealers selling 2 smashed up cars with the good halves welded together to sell as an undamaged one. There was quite a lucrative illegal business at the time and quite a few poor buyers involved in a minonr collision with 2 halves of car. Everyone in the UK knows you used to wind the odometer FORWARD! Greetings from the UK!
"I think what she's saying does technically make sense, but is not phrased in a way that anyone would ever say..." Tell me you've never seen Coneheads without telling me you've never seen Coneheads. That is LITERALLY the point. lol
There are documented cases of race teams using very large diameter fuel lines to increase the fuel capacity without making the tank larger. Smokey Yunick put an inflated basketball in the tank for tech inspection then deflated and removed it later lol. Penske used very tall fuel towers and larger diameter fuel refil lines to refuel their cars significantly faster than every one else. They even dipped their car bodies into acid vats to remove even more weight from their cars.
I actually have seen footage of a car getting ripped in half from an accident. It was a chop shop car, that had had the front and back cut apart, and then welded back together. Got t-boned in the back half and it ripped off.
Fun fact, the minis used in the subway scenes were full electric. They were not allowed to run internal combustions engines down theere.
Pulling an exact torque figure out of your ass when discussing a modified engine is absolutely shenanigans
The odometer trick does work on older cars, modern ones don't allow it though.
That scene in Ferris Bueller's got a company shut down because they made an illegal copy of that car. That was a kit car, it wasn't an authentic car and it got 'em shut down for doing it without permission.
great episode - I love how they pointed out the same thing that's always perplexed me, which is that these movies have enormous budgets and they spend so much time and money to the writers and the editors and all along the way, nobody can take 10 minutes to validate the "gearhead talk" and write something that makes sense.
2:30 "the fuel part" is contained in decent volumes inside a carburator and some fuel in a line after a mechanical pump on engine head. Driving for 20 seconds without a fuel tank should work fine
I like how the second it went to Ferris Beuler that everyone know exactly what scene it's showing
The james bond scene. Driving off without a gas tank is more realistic than theat car breaking clean in half.
There is still going to be fuel in the line, and fuel in the float bowl. You wouldn't be able to drive far, but you could drive off.
For the Coneheads movie, that's a running gag in the show, they will use overly complicated ways to say somthing regular. Like they would say circular meat disks made from the carcass of a swine, to refer to pepperoni.
Seriously analyzing a Danny devito scene is wild 😭
For Mad Max Fury Road, they are actually spitting in "Nitro", not fuel. Also for the Italian Job, they actually had to get specialized build Minis from BMW that were electric, as they didn't allowed for ICEs to be used in the Subway for the scene
4:26 and for differentials... banana peels. One of my families funny quotes thanks to my dad: "Show me the law that says I can't stick banana peels in my rear end"
About fricken time you make another video! Sandro’s the man!
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The cut in half car does work. Mythbusters did an episode testing that and it drives flawlessly
With the clip from Coneheads the only part that I disagree with slightly is when they said, "no one talks like this" given that she's not from this planet and her character's parents also speak in a very similar way, her father multiple times in the movie uses the phrase "Ford Lincoln Mercury Sable" to describe his own car, so overdoing the vocabulary is almost baked in. Always great to see Chris Farley too lol.
Aw man. I forgot that was Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder. For some reason, I'd always remembered Sandro being the lead in that movie.
I've stripped about 200lbs out of my Miata.
Spare wheel, lighter headers, lighter muffler, removed power steering, removed a/c system, removed spare tire, lightweight flywheel, etc. surprisingly not too difficult to drop 200lbs
i saw an episode of Mythbusters the other day, and actually, they prove that moonshine runs better in newer cars than it does in older cars
With regards to older engines, there was a period in time where essentially having a campfire in the back of your pickup wasn't uncommon, because the smoke contains a percentage of wood gas which is combustible in itself. It was more common to have a sealed system that generated more wood gas for the engine though from a lower state of combustion though, more akin to making charcoal.
Most smoke is flammable in it's own right, although it's considered waste. Even candle smoke can be lit because of the soot particles within it.
Engines just need something to burn if they don't have all the modern electrical and emissions systems. It's only a matter of figuring out the timing and the ratios of fuel to air. Turbines similarly can run on almost anything, as long as the electrical components permit.
"Imma damage that pocket that's what Imma do" Just what I thought I'd hear from Sandro.
I wish they did that Top Gear made movie clip where they show a driver deactivating the traction control on a Jaguar for the full 10 seconds🤣
The annoyance you guys feel when car movies just throw around random car words to sound good is exactly how I feel about any kind of tech movies involving computers or "hacking" when they throw around random IT lingo.
I've worked on Mini coopers, if you so much as hit a raccoon you will trash the engine. The lower radiator hose gets pinched off from the hit that small and catastrophically overheats the engine fast. Not to mention the front assembly is all plastic.
There was a massive problem in Australia where they would cut cars like Skylines and civics and most JDM cars inhalf because to import a running 80s or 90s car was expensive but by cutting them in half they would be imported as wrecks and they wouldnt pay any or very little import tax. They would weld them back together and then something breaks or they have an accident and the car would split in two...
So the car being cut in half is very much possible. It was a big issue for a while until they banned it.
6:10 What was upsetting about the Italian Job remake was they used 3 Mini Coopers, but only one was the S - ie, only one was super charged. The other ones were slow base models - and you don’t soup up the non-supercharged model. You start with the S! (My guess, even though they show manual transmissions and shifting gears, the S didn’t come with an auto at that time, so maybe for the stunt drivers, they needed automatics to perform certain stunts. This is common. Stunt drivers are already doing enough crazy stuff with the cars to worry about heel toe a perfect downshift while going down a flight of stairs and pulling the handbrake to make a quick 90 degree turn. But they did have one Cooper S. And they could have just put the S hood on the others with the hood scoop to fake an S model. Likely figured most people won’t notice - and it’s true, but when creating an epic car chase, car enthusiasts will rewatch that scene for decades. Details matter.)
" I want to know what that hood is made out of."
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On old cars, you could actually roll back or forward the mileage. I did this personally about 12 years ago (roll forward with a drill).
I don't think there is any question you can roll it forward but I think it's been a very very long time since you could roll it back. But yes, ofc at one point you could...they wouldn't add the complexity of preventing rollback if it hadn't happened.
The original quote is "the customer is always right, in matters of taste" in case anyone didnt know that :D
I just find it funny you wanted realism in the dialogue of a character from Coneheads
I like how they admit that they hustle the customers.
This reminds me of back in high school I had an old 80's Jeep Cherokee and one time when my parents went out of town I drove around with my friends when I wasn't supposed to. Then my Dad told me, while they were still away but after my drive that he had written down the mileage on it. Not wanting to get caught I opened up the dash, took apart the odometer and managed to turn it back the 25 or so miles I drove. Then it turned out my Dad was bluffing!
FWIW: The old car in Matilda would have been a speedo cable car similar to how the ferrari was in the Ferris Bueller clip, you could actually turn either of those odometers back.
I remembered replacing the cluster on my moms 04 GMC Yukon. When i ordered it you just told them what milage you wanted it programmed with when you bought it. I was honest with them and had it programmed with the same milage, but it would be easy to just install one with 100k less miles
The speedometer backwards trick only works for speedometers from like 1988 and earlier. My dad owned an 88 Ford Escort with a speedometer cable. (How do I know? Every time we went in reverse the speedometer needle would bounce off zero and the odometer would turn backwards, because I’ve always been curious about that kind of stuff.) So yes, it works, but for only really old cars in excess of 30 years old.