Technicians

[Privatebigandrew]

Ok, just a general question. Who here is an actually technician or at least has school to back up their credentials. I personally attend Nascar Technical Institute in Moorseville, NC and will be graduating on march 12th. I think this would be helpful for all the people posting questions.

[Privatebigandrew]

sorry, i also meant to add that training in highschool doesn't count....i mean it does, but it can't actually match a technical school or training in the field....

[carguyinok]

Sure, Back in the early-mid 90's I was a mechanic with a dodge dealership. One of the very first 5 star dealers. Left wrenching and went into finance. I got real sick of the dealership crap over the years at the wrench & the desk. So now I am now in one of the few full time schools for Mercury Marine mechanic's. The outboard stuff is all new for me but the inboard and sterndrive units are all GM powerplants. So far I love it and the pay rate is huge for marine vs. automotive.
Also spent 8 years working part time for a classic car\motorcycle auction.

[crxlvr]

ive been working on my cars and my friends for years, although ive just recieved my Actual mechanics license last year. Im currently not in the mechanic field, but i still work on the side doing jobs whenever possible.

[Ricochet]

I've dug through almost every inch of my car, sometimes fixing/upgrading the same thing 2 - 3 times. I guess I could go get a piece of paper saying I'm important, but I bet I could answer some questions better than those certified people.

[BullShifter]

I took some classes at a community college, short time @ UTI, Honda(tech/advisor) school, & BMW school. I only have 1 ASE certification in Air conditioning, plan to get some more. They said working at a car dealer is a high point of "techs" career, HA fuck dealers there so much bullshit that goes on at those places. The best education is working on cars with some who knows what they're doing, like an ASE master tech. Now I work with another ex-honda employee @ our own(and the banks) shop.

A guy that works at the race shop next door to our shop is a graduate from NTI. He works on Spec Ford racers, pretty smart. If I had to do it all over again, I would go to that(cant remember the name) school in Canada where you work on actual open-wheel race cars for 9 months. Basically the pit crew for a racing school. also the techs have a chance to race & learn for a bit more money. I wanna say it's like $9000 USD for the tech program, not including racing.

Ricochet try some practice test's @ www.asecert.org

[Ricochet]

That link isn't working, could be these crappy computers. I never really said I could build an formula racer, but I could (have) literally tear the majority of a Civic apart and put it back together like new.

[BullShifter]

Link fixed. I'm not judging what you do & don't know, just telling your about that site.

Civic's are as simple as you can get when it comes to moden cars

[Ricochet]

Originally Posted by jackasssi

Civic's are as simple as you can get when it comes to moden cars

lol very true

[bbyzfr6]

I don't have an edumacatcion sayn i can fix em cars, but I can ax questions and read as well as dem boys dat do. You can tell very few people on here know what the hell they are talking about. The few that are on here are bogged down with gay questions. Hints the dumb ass questions which end up in no technical answers. I have one, put a wing on your car so it can add more drag...take weight off the front end where power is...I could go on and on and yes I know open wheeled cars make possible lift. I tried to post in lets get techincal to get a product review and got very little info back. This tells me that people talk a lot more then turn wrenches.

[steve8091]

I have a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and spend most of my working day doing machine design. I know very little about cars at the moment, but I do know a good deal about fluid mechanics, heat transfer, statics, and dynamics.

[carguyinok]

I took some classes at a community college, short time @ UTI, Honda(tech/advisor) school, & BMW school. I only have 1 ASE certification in Air conditioning, plan to get some more. They said working at a car dealer is a high point of "techs" career, HA fuck dealers there so much bullshit that goes on at those places. The best education is working on cars with some who knows what they're doing, like an ASE master tech.

Couldnt agree more with the "The best education is working on cars with some who knows what they're doing, like an ASE master tech"
Sure you can get alot from schools like UTI. BUT those "schools" are more about making MONEY then being a school. I had a friends kid come to me with the info for UTI. Sure you can get some real training there but the cost is just .
I started out with a big dealership just doing parts hanging and oil changes. After about six months of hard work and helping out the guys the owners asked if I would like to move up. I jumped on the offer. Next thing I know I am going out of state for factory training with Dodge while getting a pay check If you get in and prove yourself as a hard worker looking to learn a dealership will train you. But the real learning was working side by side with a master tech at the dealership. You can go to school for years and be as book smart as you can get. But untill your in a shop doing the work you dont know jack.
Take the school I am in now. . Mercury boat corp. needed a factory training center about ten years back. They looked all over and saw that the tech. center here had the room and was willing to work with them. So they opened up shop here. With it being a training center Mercury they have well over 2 Mill. worth of state of the art motors, drive units, and tools here. Hell we even have a engine dyno. But because it's at the tech. center they have to offer the class to the public. Not that you can just put your name on the list and go. You must interview and pray you make the cut of fifteen people.
Our teacher is a Master Tech and employee of Mercury. That is the main reason I am there. You cant beat one on one time with a true master tech Plus getting nine months worth of fact. training from the biggest name in the boat biz.
I cant wait, we have a list of job offers all over the world just because of the amount of training from a Master tech & backing from Mercury.
Plus test drives are more fun when theres no speed limit BIG VID. BUT WORTH THE TIME

[BullShifter]

Originally Posted by carguyinok

Plus test drives are more fun when theres no speed limit

Thats always a nice thing.

[bbyzfr6]

Hey carguyinok!!! I just graduated from OSU last spring. I know several people who work out there at Merc. They have all kinds of toys there for some real R%D work. In fact I have been out there at least half a dozen times. I agree 100% with the shop time. That is why I mentioned earlier there is a lot of talk on here, but not a lot of turning the wrench. What works on paper and in theory isn't everything when the tree lights up.

[carguyinok]

Hey carguyinok!!! I just graduated from OSU last spring. I know several people who work out there at Merc. They have all kinds of toys there for some real R%D work. In fact I have been out there at least half a dozen times. I agree 100% with the shop time. That is why I mentioned earlier there is a lot of talk on here, but not a lot of turning the wrench. What works on paper and in theory isn't everything when the tree lights up.

OH YAH gota love the stillwater plant Thats true about the toys for R&D . Did you know thats where the LT5 corvette motor was made? Lotus flew in engineers to work with the engineers @ Mercury and every LT5 was cast and built from the ground up there. Then sent out to GM for the ZR1 corvettes. It was so cool just to hold the foam molds for that motor Plus meet the people that made it.