2000 Concorde Life Expectancy

Try cleaning your spectacles, then look again.

Doesn't. In this context, "breathing" refers to the flow of air and
crankcase gases through the crankcase and into the intake tract.

See above.

See above again.

See above as many times as it takes for you to understand.

I really don't see what's so hard about this. Didn't you once claim to be
an engineer?

-Stern

 

Ask any engine builder what it means to make an engine
"breathe better" and I'll bet you a steak dinner than increasing the gas
flow through the PCV system isn't mentioned. I not only claimed to be
an engineer, I am one. What do you claim?


Matt

 

Perhaps, but we're not talking to engine builders about how to make
engines breathe better. We're discussing dirty vs. clean crankcases.
Context is everything.

I claim to hope like hell you're not a mechanical engineer in the
automotive field. You lack fundamental knowledge of systems that have
existed for nearly half a century.

Do I really have to mention that the PCV system is one type of what is
broadly known as a "crankcase breather"?

DS

 

The context was getting 2-3 MPG increase from a crankcase flush that was
supposed to make the engine breath better, not make the crankcase
breathe better. Increasing the airflow through the PCV system won't do
that.

OK, you have no real claim to competency.

No, I'm well aware of that. We were talking making the engine breathe
to dramatically increase fuel efficiency. That would only happen by
increase induction or exhaust efficiency, not crankcase evacation
efficiency. I really thought you were savvy enough to know that.


Matt

 

Well, any street engines coupled to a CVT transmission see a LOT of time at
6K.

Mine sees 6000 RPM frequently, although most of its time is spent running
slightly under 3000.

--Geoff

 

That's what *started* the thread, but threads evolve. It's important to
keep up.

Apparently not:

-Stern

 

after years of fixing what of engineers have done to things I CLAIM it
takes 100 of them to come up with a ounce of brains

 

I think you might be blaming the engineers for what is really a "bean
counter" problem.

Steve m...

 

If you followed micky canic here for long, you would know that he
couldn't tell an engineer from an accountant.


Matt