Loads of Newbie Questions!

Here's a whole bunch of Newbie questions! :) Hope you don't mind

1) What does it mean when someone says a car's engine is 2.4L or 1.6L??? What does this mean? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a larger or smaller number?

2) What does it mean when a car is 4 cylinders or 6 cylinders etc?
Again what are the advantages and disadvantages of a higher or lower number.

3) When someone says they have a V4 or v6 or v8 etc. engine, I know the numbers corrospond to the number of cylinders, but what does the v mean? While I'm at it, whats the main difference between vtech and a v4,v6,v8 etc?

4) What does it mean to get an engine swap? Is it basically replacing an engine with another type?

5) What's better to have? front wheel drive, or rear wheel drive?

6) If you put an automatic car in neutral, rev the engine really high, then switch it to drive, does it wreck the transmission?

7) What happens if you occassionally to or even a little past the redline in a manuel transmission (not everyday, but just like once in awhile, like once or twice a month)

Thanks for your time! :)

1-3 You really need to go to www.howstuffworks.com and read about the internal combustion engines. It will save us all a LOT of typing ;)

4) Yes. Maybe not another type, but just another engine (might as well replace it with the exactly same one)

5) That is totally a personal preference. Mine is FWD, then AWD and then RWD, but really, There's not much gap between the three for me.

6) Yes

7) The redline is just the manufacturers' opinion on how fast the engine should turn :silly: NO NO NO! J/k. You don't want to do that. Well, on modern cars you have rev limiters anyway, so you won't be able to go too much over the redline (just around 100 RPM on my car), bu if there's no limier, well, kaboom! Also quite a few engines have been ruined when the driver, after redlining in 3rd gear, accidentally put the car into 2nd instead of fourth. Again - kaboom! :silly2: :licker:

Hope this helps.

Go buy yourself a fundamentals of automotive technology book and read it for a few hours a day!!!

:):alien2: :D

Originally posted by Max40
whats the main difference between vtech and a v4,v6,v8 etc?

Ug...follow lors advice, get yourself a good basics of automotives book and just read it. The internets great and all, but it'll never beat a good manuel.