how does an engine transfer power?

[Poboy kartman]

Ummmmm....???? TELL YA WHAT! Just. cause I'm in a good mood this evening....I'M GONNA GIVE YA A HEAD START FOR THE DOOR!

Leave now please, while I'm still in a good mood....

 

[jandj]

Simple answer:
Push skinny pedal
Car move

 

[wagx2]

better take it back, simplify more before you hit the pedal..the combustible liquid called Gasoline, can move anything. get a can pour some on the ground and include a trail back to the can, go to beginning end of where you started pouring, light it....wha-la! your running!!! anyone else in the area is running too. after you here or see the boom and its over. Picture that in a small circular area inside of a engine, which is built on a axis, said combustion turns that axis, attach anything to that axis and its moving rather, it be a clutch, tranny, etc... in any combination as long as it ends at the tire and attach those to any structural form, as long as the last thing turning is the tire and its touching the ground you get motion. unless you use the old square tires, then you get slow motion.

 

[machinist@large]

better take it back, simplify more before you hit the pedal..the combustible liquid called Gasoline, can move anything. get a can pour some on the ground and include a trail back to the can, go to beginning end of where you started pouring, light it....wha-la! your running!!! anyone else in the area is running too. after you here or see the boom and its over. Picture that in a small circular area inside of a engine, which is built on a axis, said combustion turns that axis, attach anything to that axis and its moving rather, it be a clutch, tranny, etc... in any combination as long as it ends at the tire and attach those to any structural form, as long as the last thing turning is the tire and its touching the ground you get motion. unless you use the old square tires, then you get slow motion.

I take it you're speaking from personal experience?? Were you the one who poured the gas or the one who threw the match???

 

[wagx2]

I take it you're speaking from personal experience?? Were you the one who poured the gas or the one who threw the match???

Been on both sides of that once or twice in my day.... but for years really thought cars moved by gravitational pull of the sun, as a young boy watched my father drive off toward the sun in the morning, and come home when the sun went the other way, and for years now as my father, I do the same every day.

 

[Poboy kartman]

Been on both sides of that once or twice in my day.... but for years really thought cars moved by gravitational pull of the sun, as a young boy watched my father drive off toward the sun in the morning, and come home when the sun went the other way, and for years now as my father, I do the same every day.

Dang!!!! And all this time I thought it was pushing! !!! As my dad headed west in the morning and east in the evening!