how did you learn about cars? - Honda Forum / Acura Forum

IntegerDr3vr · 08-30-2004, 07:58 PM

i've been reading through the "garage" forums and i'm just amazed about how you all know so damn much about engines and cars in general.

How did you all learn about all the stuff about eninges and your cars and all that?

AkariMotorsport · 08-30-2004, 08:09 PM

BOOkS and school.

want a good book get

Automotive Service By. Tim Gilles
it has all the basics.

nfscg · 08-30-2004, 08:11 PM

went to the libary got a book and started learing the basics

Transparent · 08-30-2004, 08:49 PM

I do a lot of reading. and lots of my friends are into cars also, so we get good informative discussions going

IntegerDr3vr · 08-30-2004, 08:52 PM

cool, thanks

ihatericers · 08-30-2004, 08:54 PM

magazines.. before i had a car i'd buy 3-4 magazines every week... import mags, lowrider mags, old school chevy's -- didn't matter to me, all the same stuff

Lights_Out · 08-30-2004, 11:54 PM

Mostly the net browsing tech forums. Books have helped as well. Pretty much learn something new everyday.

90Si · 08-31-2004, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by 5.0

Mostly the net browsing tech forums.

and this book

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...84089631&itm=1

Hoody Racer · 08-31-2004, 01:13 AM

as for me about 90% of the little i know comes from a cousin of mine and SHO. other than that the Super Street mag and random info pick ups.

UltraMagneticAL · 08-31-2004, 09:23 AM

back in high school, my friend and his little bro would always talk about cars. they got me interested in it and showed me some stuff....when my friend and i graduated we had separate plans for our cars and stuff....a few weeks later, he was riding shotgun in some faggot ricer's ford probe going to the mall and the driver did some big errors in the canyon, lost it, ran into a pickup and my friend died a few hours later. from what i understand it was a painful death (broken rib punctured a lung and blood seeped in causing him to basically slowly drown in his own blood from the inside. this was when fast and furious came out too....dude had the stickers and shit all over his car

anyways, in order to keep my friend alive mentally, i made an effort to learn about cars and stuff. i hung out w/ more people that were into cars, read reviews on products, started doing car work on my own, and installs on other cars too. it helped that i have an engineering mindset also cuz i'm always interested in how things work. but most of the shit that i learned was thru hands on experience

oh and my physics classes also helped me see a lot of things too

daloyal1 · 08-31-2004, 07:40 PM

well it started with fast and the forious that really got me into imports did some reading and learning. took auto class for the first time in high school knew answers to questions right off that bat that i'd let some of my freinds cheat off me on test and finals. also got a 100 on a 60 question final. 10% of that being mutliple choice. learned even mor in auto and know i can't wait to learn how to drive stick.

ihatericers · 08-31-2004, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by daloyal1

well it started with fast and the forious that really got me into imports

NEG REP! lol j/k

daloyal1 · 08-31-2004, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ihatericers

NEG REP! lol j/k

hey. before that i didn't know any thing about cars.that cmae out when i was like in 8 or 9th grade.thats like when i was 13/14 i'm 17 now and as i said can't wait to get a stick car.

Transparent · 08-31-2004, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by daloyal1

hey. before that i didn't know any thing about cars.that cmae out when i was like in 8 or 9th grade.thats like when i was 13/14 i'm 17 now and as i said can't wait to get a stick car.

lol when f&f came out I was maybe 19 and already into cars for about 4 years

ihatericers · 08-31-2004, 08:20 PM

i can't remember when The Slow And The Riced Out came out but i do know that i've been reading about cars since i was like 11, so yeah close to 6 years now