for mister and his wanted ideas

[gordZuki]

what about a zuki hyabusi engine?? can a bike engine be put into a zuk??

how much crack am i smoking??

[TheSarg]

If its an offroad trail buggy, i think an IH 4 cyl deisel tractor motor would be the shit, over 400 ft lbs of torque, fully adaptable, 1 wire and 2 wd tranny, take some fabbing and MAJOR re-enforcing, but damn it be unbreakable, just no high speeds LOL 40 mph for a stock case

[Mister]

well I know I am going to catch hell for this,but anyway I am not a domestic car lover dont matter what it is ,they are all shit.I have been in manufacturing for quite a while and have been to quite a few Big Three automotive plants,flint michigan,saginaw,wentzville,oshawa,tuscaloosa alabama(mercedes)lots of them.I was in the new gm 350 engine plant talking to the production manager ,just as we where talking car shit,he was called away to the 350 line leak test staion,I was shocked when he came back to his offiuce carrying a 350 plenum full of SAND from the casting company,the plenum was fully machined but full of sand fawked up his leak test and brought the line down to 50 percent capacity.Anyway we supplied water pumps for all 350 and vortec v6 engines,we had what is called a shy stock condition on the water pump ,casting defect that did not show up till after machining,so i had to hire a crew and sort water pumps in the factory as well as at the warehouse.this place was huge there where over 16 thousand engines in this place.the warehouse was run by a logistical company not GM employees but a secondary outside contract company.the engines were laid out in racks,when the forktruck guys picked the orders ,the would load 6 engines on two tiers in to the trucks heading to oshawa truck plant or to quebec for the firebirds and camaros or to the corvette plant.I seen them pull a set of engines out and drop them on the florr enough for one engine break free from the moorings and fall on the floor.well anyway i had to sort thru all those engines for the defect and tag the bad engine ,but all good engines were identified with a paint mark on the water pump pully.what was suprising to me was there were other inspectors about 15 more also checking for defects not the ones i was checking for but thottle body harness resistance checks,crank bolt missing ,yea the big one on the pulley etc etc.they all put there paint mark on a certain location.Go to a new car dealer ship and pop the hood on a new gm car,start looking for paint dots.It doesnt mean that car or truck has a problem but they had to check for the defect.I count one engine that had over 20 paint dots on it.Unbeleivable.At the ford plant in oakville ,I realigned the master body guage for the Ford windstar,calibrated it,they bring the sheetmetal body parts doors hoods,etc and check them againsnt this master guage.after I was done I had to move 15 locator pins and fix squarness issues on the guage,After Me and my partner were done they brought fresh parts to check against the master.well now nothing fits they were all freaked out,trying to blame us that we measured it wrong.My supervisor who was woking with me straightened them out pretty quick,(he was aformer nuclear engineer of some type from britain,very intelligent fellow)we were right, they were wrong.About the same time we were discussing it we heard this banging sound from outside the QA department.I went outside to see what the rackets was and it turned out to be a line worker with a rubber mallet pounding the shit out of the door on the inside of a windstar.Went back in and asked the production why buddy was pounding the shit out of the door if the parts were good,he gave me some babble about a certain lot of parts being a little tight.A little tight I said holy fawk.I later went to the Cami plant to do the same sort of job.they assemble the suzi sidekicks,chevy trackers ,sunrunners etc outside of london.that fawkin master body guage only needed one .5mm adjustment on one pin location,after three year service,fawkin near perfect.
toyota the same good guality stuff.mercedes was unbeleivable,I was talking to one guy,on how long he had been working here and how he liked it.we started talking quality and he told me how when they first hired there first employees.Mercedes took there employess to there test crashcenter and smashed over a 100 ml320s suvs in front of them to show them how the car should look after impact.And ranting and raving about quality issues ,identification ,troubleshooting.Fawk I am long winded Part two coming up Later .

[SJKrawler]

:ro :ro Yeah, Ford has their quality control issues too. I know for a fact that alot of tranny castings were made with a wall thickness too thin on one side. None were recalled, too many made. Their electonic inspection didn't even catch it! They eventually found out when they cut the casting in sections.
I guess they think, oops, owell I guess if no one can see it it's still good.
I like the stuff the Japanese make, they take a design and make it better.

[off_your_rocker]

hey tell me about it. i am one of those other companies that has to put all them paint dots on. i look at parts, especialy paint parts and say that i wouldn't want that on my car but the plant rep says thats good