AAAHHHH ENGEENERS Who need them!

[Challenger RTA]

Keep in mind that there are only two Mopar scoops that actually force air into the engine compartment, the Six Pack scoop used on 69 1/2+ B-Bodies and the Challenger T/A scoop. All other scoops (even opening up the Cuda scoops and the AAR scoops) just let hot are out as they are not two inches above the laminar flow boundary across the hood. Crap, I'm exposing my engineering degree! Please don't hold it against me!!

I worked with engineers that drew up those drawing. They don't always work. I do what's called a field adjustment.
Did flight 93. When building the wall we all knew. There was going to be a problem with the high winds and the height of the wall. Two years later were back putting buttress on the wall.
An other was at a natural gas pumping station. connecting the PNG and the Texas Eastern line together. 500+' 12" 3000psi. The biggest problem was There were no engineering drawings! And the plant was live. 60 years ago Jack put all the new pneumatic lines in. If you hit 1 line it shuts the plant down and all the gas to all cities and surrounding areas. 50 years ago. Jim put all the 480v lines in. 30 years ago Bill and Ted put the new gas lines in. Get the adventure.

There where about 15 workers on the project. The was an engineer and a company personal to test and check. They knew where two 8" lines are and that was it. The line we were putting in had to be 2' minimum below the lowest line. Not knowing what's in there how do you know how low to go! At the morning safety meeting there were some rough discussions. One morning the engineer fired the foremen. We all did an immediate about face and started to leave. The engineer said. No No not all of you! We replied he's fired were all gone. The company gave someone else the the foremen label while we all took instructions from the #1. So when we were done I had a olive branch in hand all the time. Didn't tell no one. The plant just put $100K into 2 AUX boilers. They where going to be there for a while. Pulled a bench mark from there and shot elevation and distance for all the the lines we found. There were 22 line in that run we had to be 2' under. When I gave it to the engineer he was doing cartwheels he was so happy. Everything was good!
I worked with the Army Corps of Engineers on projects. They have books for the books for regulations and procedures!
AAAHHHH ENGEENERS Who need them! They draw on paper. While I fix and build things.
No really We do need the good ones! Kudos to them! Or we wouldn't have Hood Scoops!

 

[Mopars & Missiles]

I worked with engineers that drew up those drawing. They don't always work.

AAAHHHH ENGEENERS Who need them! They draw on paper.

 

[Ronbo73]

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That t-shirt is so on point. Just because you might be really smart doesn't always mean they have common sense...

 

[Katfish]

It's more important to understand the theory of why something works (or doesn't), rather than being able to get something specfic to work.

 

[Mopars & Missiles]

It's more important to understand the theory of why something works (or doesn't), rather than being able to get something specfic to work.

Sorry, totally disagree with you.


So in theory, when your car doesn't work, you are just happy to see it sit forever in the garage because you understand WHY it doesn't work but yet you are unable to fix it to MAKE it work?


The really intelligent people are the ones that understand the THEORY and can also MAKE it work. Thus the need for a good TECHNICIAN.

 

[sixpactogo]

I'm not an engineer by trade but I do consider myself a "field engineer" meaning I have engineered some fixes for things that didn't work.
However, I have to admit I have messed up a few things that were engineered properly that I made to not work properly.
A couple things come to mind I know I messed up on and should have left alone are:
1. Serpentine belt pulley upgrade. (destroyed the cooling properties with underdrive pulley sizes creating overheating)
2. Swapping front drum brakes to disc's without doubling the booster diaphragm. (Trying to get by with a single diaphragm)
There are tons of threads on here caused by people thinking they made things better by swapping parts around but it turns out the designers did their due diligence and fixed problems that we didn't even know were problems until we created them.
That said, Yes, We need them.

 

[Xcudame]

The technicians I worked with called my a "Technician with an Engineering degree"! Luckily I had a lot of technicians that loved working with me! They showed up to my retirement party two to one over engineers! Honestly, all my degree taught me was how to solve any problems quickly by knowing where to go for an answer. The great thing about engineers, unlike doctors and lawyers, engineers don't " practice their profession! Otherwise we'd all died long ago from vehicle, bridge and rocket/missile failures. Yes those types of failures happen on a small scale - those were the stupid engineers!

 

[Challenger RTA]

retirement party

Retirement what's that?

knowing where to go for an answer.

That is one the powerful tools in the too box. If I already didn't know and it wasn't in my head without a doubt. I would knew where to look or find someone that knew.

profession

A professional knows the next move, with minimal undesirable effects.

 

[Xcudame]

Retirement: when you stop working for a third party and start working for your wife. When wife's retire, they don't work anymore.