PVC tire damage?

[NickRuston]

LOL i didnt want to cause ths much conflict in termanoligy with this thread. guess everyone should take this as a lesson: use proper termanoligy or your going to cause a disturbance lol

 

[alien13]

To the OP, you really don't want to rev your engine that hard for that long with no load on it. But its your money if you don't mind spending it.

Sorry Alien if its battery powered its a motor, if it uses combustion its an engine.

We always called them a pony engine around my old shop, you'd get teased mercilessly for calling it a pony motor!

Feel free to dispute that with Dictionary.com.

 

[Rolex]

Feel free to dispute that with Dictionary.com.

There's a lot of old, worn out definitions for early technology that still exists today that really doesn't apply any more.
If it did, you could drive a Lamborghini Galardo horseless carriage.
British terms have always been a little strange to us. Their Rolls Royce is a motor car. Their turnpike is a motorway.
Worst of all, they still believe in royalty.

 

[w bill]

There's a lot of old, worn out definitions for early technology that still exists today that really doesn't apply any more.
If it did, you could drive a Lamborghini Galardo horseless carriage.
British terms have always been a little strange to us. Their Rolls Royce is a motor car. Their turnpike is a motorway.
Worst of all, they still believe in royalty.

Hey rolex next time i go to the auto store i'll ask for a starter engine for my gas motor you think that will work.:whhooo:

 

[Rolex]

Nope, won't work. No one calls a motor an engine, but a lot of people still call engines motors.

 

[alien13]

Funny, because I can walk up to any of the hundreds of 1:1 racers in the area, and say motor, and they'll know that I'm talking about the engine.

An engine is a motor
An electric motor is a motor
A motor is a powerplant. Whether it is electric or fuel powered.

 

[Lessen]

My goodness. Is it not obvious that "motor" is a generalized term for something that creates motion and "engine" is simply more specific to the means of energy transfer.

I myself always refer to an internal combustion engine as an "engine" and electric motors as "motors" but I get the jist.

 

[pipisugbo]

No, it's not a circle either. Neither is a piston driven internal combustion engine ever a motor.

Actually, a square is a rectangle. The definition of square is "a rectangle having all four sides of equal length."

C'mon, have a little humility, Rolex. You do realize definitions are placed in the dictionary based on the common usage of the word, right? If 85% of the people use the term motor to describe "a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like", and the other 15% disagree, that doesn't make those 85% wrong. That's just the way language works.

Oh, and just to stay on topic, I don't think PVC around the tires for drifting would be a very good idea, but then again, I drive on loose soil, with very little traction, all the time and my motor has held up just fine.

 

[alien13]

There's a lot of old, worn out definitions for early technology that still exists today that really doesn't apply any more.
If it did, you could drive a Lamborghini Galardo horseless carriage.
British terms have always been a little strange to us. Their Rolls Royce is a motor car. Their turnpike is a motorway.
Worst of all, they still believe in royalty.

So you are changing the English language?

 

[Rolex]

In this hobby, when asking the type of question asked, he actually got the WRONG information because he said motor, and not engine. Read the response in post 2. That's why I asked.
My on road car, my crawler and 2 of my Savages have motors. The other savage has an engine.
My life sized car has an engine to power it, and motors to start it, blow air through it and keep rain off my windshield.

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So you are changing the English language?

Not at all. The English are strange. I'm having enough trouble straightening out some Americans.

 

[vmswimfan21]

rolex your my hero..... stick to your guns and again just glad i could stur the pot...

 

[Lessen]

I totally understand Rolex's point. It is due to the nature of this hobby. I do agree that in THIS HOBBY more than 1:1 motorsports, a motor is generally used to refer to electric and an engine or "mill" is used to describe a nitro engine.

Pippi- Actually, in the early days of r/c drifting (before drifting was a marketed sector of the hobby) PVC "tires" were the gold standard. Nowadays we have specific cars designed for drifting and rubber/synthetic tires made specifically for it as well. Everything has it's beginnings and r/c drifting had PVC... and that was a mere 6 or 7 years ago.

 

[Rolex]

I totally understand Rolex's point. It is due to the nature of this hobby. I do agree that in THIS HOBBY more than 1:1 motorsports, a motor is generally used to refer to electric and an engine or "mill" is used to describe a nitro engine.

And THAT'S from a NASCAR man!!
A few years ago we didn't even know the word "Drifting". We'd go to big parking lots and do donuts and spinouts with huge American cars.

 

[Lessen]

Yeah... I don't think people in the Nascar garages can pronounce engine.

 

[Nitro4910]

Feel free to dispute that with Dictionary.com.

I will, dictionary.com has some egg head that's never seen the light of day programing the pages.
Just cause it's on the net doesn't right.
Misprint (or mistype in this case) in the case of Dictionary.com won't be the first time or the last they get some thing wrong.
Garbage in garbage out!

 

[sft2]

Just because I feel like adding to an argument, steam "engines" aren't engines as they don't convert fuel to motion. They convert energy, which was converted from fuel by another device, into motion. Meaning they're motors. Same for hydraulic and pneumatic motors, which, I suppose, you could consider a steam motor, even though it's not exactly the same thing. A steam motor is more closely related to a CO2 motor.

And aren't most modern locomotives electric? Specifically diesel electric?

 

[Rolex]

You didn't read Post #20.

 

[sft2]

Yes I did, but calling it a steam engine is the same thing as calling an engine a motor. Common terminology doesn't make it technically accurate. Engines convert fuel to mechanical motion, motors convert energy generated by another device to mechanical motion.

What's really messed up is that putting a turbocharger on an engine technically makes it a turboshaft engine with a really complicated transmission, and a diesel electric is a motor with a loud battery.

But the real question is, if I put PVC drift tires and a supercharger on my Slayer will it go faster?

I think I'll run away now.

 

[cwal1774]

So then why do they call it motor oil? And why is it called motorcycle and not enginecycle? Lol

 

[sft2]

So then why do they call it motor oil? And why is it called motorcycle and not enginecycle? Lol

Real men call it a bike. Yuppies with Harleys that think they're bikers call it a motorcycle.