Fake & made up cars parts and mods

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

The "2 tonner 1 tonner" did exist and was sold by Holden for a while...

From memory, there was an engineering firm in Melbourne who would modify the one tonne Holden chassis and turn them into a two tonner.

I’m not sure if the mods were carried out before of after the purchase but remember seeing a brochure many years ago at a Holden dealer.

I remember them costing big dollars in their day.

[Papa Smurf]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

The "2 tonner 1 tonner" did exist and was sold by Holden for a while...

First of all, they were not made by Holden. I worked for Ron Hodgson Holden when HX and HZ vehicles were new, we sold some of these horrible things, they had the chassis lengthened and a lazy axle under them, GMH voided the warranty of drive line and chassis.

And, what I was trying to get at was that if it were a TWO tonner, it would be called that, not a two ton One Tonner? a bit like a 6cyl GTHO.

[grandpa_spec_F6]

He did… until the oil was running out the rocker cover.

I may or may not have done that when I was a younger lad

[foxtrot3]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Not all "fake and made up car mods" are actually imaginary...some are a physical object that empties peoples wallets. (and yes, I'll say "HiClone" again)

Shamefully, I must admit I once spent good money...about $40 when I was only taking home $200 a week...on a "spark enhancer" that a guy at the local show was selling. He had a then fairly new WB Statesman (this was back around 1982 when I had just started drivingbut obviously my common sense hadn't developed sufficiently yet )) with a 308 in it.
The "spark enhancer" was a cylindrical object, plastic, finned on the outside, and with a male connection sticking down from the base and a female connection at the top. The way it "worked" was to remove your coil lead, plug this thing into the top of your dizzy, then plug the coil lead into that. That was it. No extra energy in, so by the laws of physics it can't work to make your spark "bigger".
He had a very impressive setup of a glass box with a sparkplug sticking into it and a dark background (to see the spark gap), and he had a power box with a spark plug lead going to the plug in the top of the box. He would turn it on, and it would spark away regularly like a spark plug does, and then he would turn it off, put on the "spark enhancer" and turn it on again. WOW! The spark was much bigger! Amazing! Shut up and take my money!!!! He was doing a roaring trade.

Of course, none of us considered that perhaps the switch he turned on was a two position switch, with a weak spark for the pre-fitment of the magical device display, and another with a stronger spark output for after he fitted the device...


From magical fuel economy pills to go in your tank (which financially almost took down a government minister here in Queensland many years ago), water into fuel devices, underbonnet home made hydrogen generators, and so-on, the ingenuity of scammers is only matched by the gullibility of a public little versed in what actually goes on inside an engine and ignorant of the basic laws of physics...

Hi. They worked by putting a large "spark gap" in the HT lead, what this then did was raise the coil voltage needed to jump this firs gap and this raised voltage made for a fatter spark at the plug. The down side was it killed your ignition coil. Cheers MD

[123Cat]

The oil pump parts that are just soft mild steel and should be about 60 Rockwell hardness , poor guys that put these in

Oh and counterfeit bearings they are everywhere now

[grandpa_spec_F6]

He did… until the oil was running out the rocker cover.

I may or may not have done that when I was a younger lad

[aussiblue]

Electric supercharger

No longer a joke Ford have one: http://news.drive.com.au/drive/motor...703-21esd.html

Ford is working on an electrically supercharged version of its award-winning new 1.0-litre turbo-petrol Ecoboost engine that could nearly match the emissions of Toyota’s Prius hybrid at a fraction of the technology cost.

The engine, which is a “skunkworks” project between the blue oval and drivetrain developer Ricardo, is designed to pump out at least 110kW while emitting just 90-95 grams of CO2 per km

The development is being driven by an EU requirement that car manufacturers hit an average CO2 emissions rate of 95 grams per km across their range of cars by 2020. That means cars sold in the calendar year, not just theoretically offered to the public.

If the program is successful, it could mean the 1.0 becomes the basis of a whole engine range that varies in spec, performance and consumption but not in capacity, potentially ousting bigger engines from big-selling models such as the Focus.

Advertisement The new 1.0-litre three-cylinder, which already averages as little as 109g CO2/km, is the most modern engine in the Ford line-up and was crowned 2012 international engine of the year.

Ford’s European gasoline engine development boss Andrew Fraser confirmed the move during a recent press drive of the Focus Ecoboost 1.0 in Germany.

“We costed it out and we reckoned the hardware would be something like 600 Euros or dollars on-cost over the price of this current (1.0) engine, so probably a tenth of the cost of a full hybrid driveline. And if a Prius is at 89 grams currently, then we reckon we can get within five or 10 grams of a Prius at a tenth of the cost. So that to us was quite a good cost-benefit balance.”

A larger turbocharger provides the added power for the 1.0, while the electrical supercharger fills the torque hole at the bottom of the rev range created by turbo lag. A belt integrated starter generator regenerates enough electricity to mean the supercharger adds no charging load to the engine.

The electric supercharger has the unique appeal of being able to spin faster than the crankshaft, unlike a mechanical supercharger.

Because of a government grant the Hyboost development program, as it is known, gained some publicity in 2011. However, Fraser admitted Ricardo and Ford engineers continued to work on the project after it officially finished.

“We could see a realistic road map down to low 90 grams for a 150-160hp car when think the current 150PS (1.6-litre Ecoboost turbo-petrol) Focus is 139 grams, so this may be a 40-plus (gram) step in that range,” said Fraser.

“Both Ricardo and my team were sufficiently enthused with it that we are carrying on in a little bit of a skunkworks type of environment to just refine the car.

“It’s almost a classic evening and weekend project with Ricardo to just try and refine it into a fully viable demonstrator vehicle. It just didn’t have that level of polish where you would want to show it to a vice president and say ‘how about this as the next step’. They have quite a high expectation even for one-off demo cars.”

[Djrystofer]

Originally Posted by grandpa_spec_F6

I may or may not have done that when I was a younger lad

They said fill it up, and that's what I did.

Filled it up.

[monzie]

While working on printing presses the new boy would be sent up to the fitters shop for a "long wait" or into the plate makers for a "box of highlight dots" or over to the ladies in the binding section for a "DV8"

Pete

[my_gxl]

Twin overhead foxtails

Once had a mate certain he had a V8 with 6 cylinders....

Fast running bubble fluid, as apposed to slow running bubble fluid.

[noosacuda]

Originally Posted by QLD-Bluey

Oil Rings for a Rotary!!

Rotaries DO actually have oil rings!
I can vaguely remember an ad in the Trading Post (when it was in print and came out fortnightly) back in the early "80's for an RX? with a worked 13B that had a "Lumpy Cam,Chev roller rockers,over-sized valves...." and the phone number for a bloke who "was a shift worker so only call after midnight...."

[MDS69]

Originally Posted by Eagleheart

Dipstick for washer bottle....

The washer bottle in my Prado has one.

[damoose]

[QUOTE=2011G6E;4591343]Not all "fake and made up car mods" are actually imaginary...some are a physical object that empties peoples wallets. (and yes, I'll say "HiClone" again)

Shamefully, I must admit I once spent good money...about $40 when I was only taking home $200 a week...on a "spark enhancer" that a guy at the local show was selling. He had a then fairly new WB Statesman (this was back around 1982 when I had just started drivingbut obviously my common sense hadn't developed sufficiently yet )) with a 308 in it.
The "spark enhancer" was a cylindrical object, plastic, finned on the outside, and with a male connection sticking down from the base and a female connection at the top. The way it "worked" was to remove your coil lead, plug this thing into the top of your dizzy, then plug the coil lead into that. That was it. No extra energy in, so by the laws of physics it can't work to make your spark "bigger".
He had a very impressive setup of a glass box with a sparkplug sticking into it and a dark background (to see the spark gap), and he had a power box with a spark plug lead going to the plug in the top of the box. He would turn it on, and it would spark away regularly like a spark plug does, and then he would turn it off, put on the "spark enhancer" and turn it on again. WOW! The spark was much bigger! Amazing! Shut up and take my money!!!! He was doing a roaring trade.

Of course, none of us considered that perhaps the switch he turned on was a two position switch, with a weak spark for the pre-fitment of the magical device display, and another with a stronger spark output for after he fitted the device...


Sadly me too and about the same year also

[xtremerus]

[QUOTE=noosacuda;4592641]Rotaries DO actually have oil rings!
[QUOTE]

Rotor seals but not rings, as such.

[SSD-85]

Originally Posted by MDS69

The washer bottle in my Prado has one.

I was waiting for someone to catch me out on that one.

[toneboi]

Direct Exhaust Injection....

[SSD-85]

Originally Posted by toneboi

Direct Exhaust Injection....

Also known as EGR.

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Shamefully, I must admit I once spent good money...about $40 when I was only taking home $200 a week...on a "spark enhancer" that a guy at the local show was selling. He had a then fairly new WB Statesman (this was back around 1982 when I had just started drivingbut obviously my common sense hadn't developed sufficiently yet )) with a 308 in it.
The "spark enhancer" was a cylindrical object, plastic, finned on the outside, and with a male connection sticking down from the base and a female connection at the top. The way it "worked" was to remove your coil lead, plug this thing into the top of your dizzy, then plug the coil lead into that. That was it. No extra energy in, so by the laws of physics it can't work to make your spark "bigger".
He had a very impressive setup of a glass box with a sparkplug sticking into it and a dark background (to see the spark gap), and he had a power box with a spark plug lead going to the plug in the top of the box. He would turn it on, and it would spark away regularly like a spark plug does, and then he would turn it off, put on the "spark enhancer" and turn it on again. WOW! The spark was much bigger! Amazing! Shut up and take my money!!!! He was doing a roaring trade.

I remember seeing something similar being flogged off at a swap meet ages ago. Guy selling it had a big old Holden V8 of some sort. Had the bonet up and was showing off how without the device the car would conk out after pulling 2 or 3 HT leads from the spark plugs.

He installed this device, which could well have been called a Spark Enhancer as well and then had the car running quite well on 3-4 cylinders if memory serves!

Or something like that.. it was probably 10-12 years ago now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PspgwbkcSeM

[supershifty]

Just came across another BS power enhancer while I was searching Gumtree - JETPIA. This ones a ripper - seven years R&D!

This device fits over your tailpipe and "JETPIA makes the condition conducive to efficient combustion by reducing the back pressure in the exhaust system".

Well, FMD! You simply introduce a restriction to your exhaust system to reduce back pressure! Throw away your extractors, hi flow cats and mandrel bends lads - you've been doing it wrong, and at the wrong end for years.

Just look at this incredibly simple design - a picture is worth a thousand words. The theory would be too hard to explain in writing to a lay person:




I'm off to wherever good JETPIA's are sold right now!

http://www.jetpia.com.au/

Cheers!

[grandpa_spec_F6]

Wait... so a decrease in exhaust pipe diameter causes the exhaust gasses to flow faster because there are some holes in the tip that 'suck' air in, thus aiding in exhaust velocity??

Looks like a glorified 'fake turbo whistle' device

[JUZXR8]

Spirit level bubbles

[Full Noise]

I’m buying ten of them. Imagine the power increase when you put one in front of the other.

And in the words of Homer Simpson… eat my rust.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by supershifty

Just came across another BS power enhancer while I was searching Gumtree - JETPIA. This ones a ripper - seven years R&D!

This device fits over your tailpipe and "JETPIA makes the condition conducive to efficient combustion by reducing the back pressure in the exhaust system".

Well, FMD! You simply introduce a restriction to your exhaust system to reduce back pressure! Throw away your extractors, hi flow cats and mandrel bends lads - you've been doing it wrong, and at the wrong end for years.

Just look at this incredibly simple design - a picture is worth a thousand words. The theory would be too hard to explain in writing to a lay person:

image
image

I'm off to wherever good JETPIA's are sold right now!

http://www.jetpia.com.au/

Cheers!

LOL

Personally I like the $15 electric turbocharger kits. Essentially a 12V hair dryer you shove into your throttle body. Great for another 100kW at the wheels.

[Alan D Segal]

Or as Clark Griswald says "Burn some dust! Eat my rubber!"

What about those braided hose 'socks' you could get to stick over your regular hoses?

Population tools, rubbers, socks and hoses... Great thread

[kaniSS]

http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main...11tieqqf3uccl7


hahahahahah Passenger Noise Reducer

[K_Man]

Originally Posted by grandpa_spec_F6

Looks like a glorified 'fake turbo whistle' device

I had one of these a while ago....had it on the my little mk1 golf for giggles, then put it on the crummy old diahatsu delta at work.....puts out a hell of a whistle on a little diesel truck donk, the bloke I worked with loved it, if I was coming to help on a job he could hear me whistling streets away

[T-Pak Addict]

Work experience kids are great fun when I was working at a wreckers many years ago now... Just trying to remember some of them that have not already been mentioned....

Front springs for a Valiant...
Speedo cable for an XD Falcon
Tailshaft for a Ford Laser (FWD)
Can of End Float...
Copper Plated Magnet...

There are probably lots more...

And the fun of unbolting a rear door of a car, putting it back in place and getting the guy to go get some part out of it... Friggin Priceless....

[envyyvne]

I work at an airport, story will not make sense if you don't know.

We had a young bloke who worked near us come in chasing a meter of flightline. He couldn't work out why we all started laughing so hard. Poor fella.

[cosworthfreak]

Originally Posted by envyyvne

I work at an airport, story will not make sense if you don't know.

We had a young bloke who worked near us come in chasing a meter of flightline. He couldn't work out why we all started laughing so hard. Poor fella.

Buggers.

I once got sent to buy a bottle of prop wash.

[GCRXR6]

Originally Posted by cosworthfreak

Buggers.

I once got sent to buy a bottle of prop wash.

I sent my apprentice to another department, of the mine I worked at, for a "Long Weight". The bugger was away for 2 hours before the chief engineer chased him back to me. Just don't send a kid to the blacksmith for a solid punch.