lord flashheart
10-26-2011, 12:58 AM
sooooooo. i work with this guy, who really knows how to annoy me. and i believe that he represents the un-knowledgable car enthusiasts on ALL car forums... you know who im talking about. the dude who starts threads saying "ive got $700 and want to do a WRX swap"
now i just want to say, there is nothing wrong with people who dont live and breathe the car thing. and some people are still learning. thats fine. we were all there and we are all still learning every day. however there is a difference between learning, and strait up automotive ignorance. the people who just dont learn..
my co worker is one of those. he says/does dumb things all day, and every time he opens his mouth i want to smack him. why? because we work in the automotive industry. its his job to know some of this shit
i have to continually break things down to a JR. high level for him.
he never uses logic. doesnt listen when someone explains why this or that wont work after he asks.
here are a couple examples..
he has a 1993 FWD impreza EJ18 automatic.
he is talking about how he wants to..
make it AWD.
make it a 5MT
put a EJ25 into it.
put the 2.5rs bumper, lights, grill, hood, wing etc.
allow wheels.
so i tell him. it would probably be easier to sell your car and buy a 2.5rs.
so what does he do? buys a 2.5 rs that matches the discription above that just needs some body work, so he can swap the
AWD, 5MT, EJ25, bumper, lights, grill, hood, wheels, brakes, into his car..
so this prosses takes forever. (still not finished BTW)
and the whole time, he is constantly asking does this work with that? bla bla bla.
i continueally tell him "idk. you will have to research it."
so he gets to the part where he put the standard transmission in the car and he is ready to start it.
(which i might add, i warned him like 14 times about having to jump the nutral start switch to start it)
big suprise... car wont start.
so i tell him AGAIN. you need to take a wire and plug it into these to pins on the harness. i even show him.
he has no clue what im talking about. so i try to explain, the car has a switch that tells the TCU that the trans is in park so it can start.
still no clue. i could have been saying it in french. so i leave and come back and what has he done? taken the shift selinoid off the auto trans and ziptied it to the manual trans and just put it in park.
now he is saying he wants to put cams in his 2.5. but he doesnt have money for that, right now, so he is "just gonna turbo the 1.8 till i have the money to get cams"... let me repeat "JUST GONNA TURBO THE 1.8" as if just turboing it is a "ill do it tonight after work" type of thing.
and me and everyone i work with is telling him, save the money, buy the cams.
he also has plans of "making it faster than a WRX" which is doable in a GC with a 2.5 done right (you know cams, pistons, intake, exhaust)
however, he wants to try some different things for power.. such as...individual throttle bodies, with velocity stacks, and having the exhaust come out behind the front wheels.
i tell him its gonna be a huge pain in the ass, expensive, and not really any performace gain.
he says i just wanna prove it can be done.
i say. i didnt say it cant be done. i said its gonna be hard and expensive.
he says no im just gonna cut the intake manifold and have them go strait up.
i ask what is he gonna use to messure airflow, control idle, where are the vacuum lines gonna connect.
he says.. i dont need any of that.
btw another of his other future mods is the backwards wrx scoop to make it a cowl induction.
a couple days ago he got a reverse light ticket. (how the F do you do that btw)
so now he has to fix it, and he asked for me to help him.
so i tell him both the automatic and the manual have a switch for the reverse lights. and he needs to wire the manual trans harness (4 wires total) to the auto trans harness (total of 12 wires)
so after watch him try to figure it out for a while i tell him to go to legacy central and find the how to thread on it.
20 minutes. no luck. so i have to go and pull up the thread.
i tell him to read the paragraph with the reverse lights.
he says so i just plug a wire from pin 9 to pin 10 right.
me: no, then your lights would be on all the time..
him: so then i just plug in pins 1 and 3 together?
me: what?? no. how would pluging the transmission wires into each other turn the reverse lights on?
him: so then how do i do this.
(i wanted him to use his brain so i tried to help him along with out telling him exact what to do)
me: so the switch in the trans just closes a circut, right? k, so you need that to be the switch to the reverse lights. how are you gonna do that?
him: um i dont know..
me: you need a power in, and power out, right? k. so you need to take power from the car or TCU plug send it to the transmission so when you put the car in reverse it sends power to the lights.
him: this is confusing.
me: no its not! take this wire (holds it in fingers) this one has power when the ignition is on and is running thru a fuse. so its safe. connect it with this wire (holds in fingers) this wire goes to the reverse switch. then connect this wire (points it out) and this wire (points it out) so that when that switch closes the circut, the electricity will go from the switch to the reverse lights.
him: this is to compicated, ill just do it some other time.
i could go on and on and on
now i just want to say, there is nothing wrong with people who dont live and breathe the car thing. and some people are still learning. thats fine. we were all there and we are all still learning every day. however there is a difference between learning, and strait up automotive ignorance. the people who just dont learn..
my co worker is one of those. he says/does dumb things all day, and every time he opens his mouth i want to smack him. why? because we work in the automotive industry. its his job to know some of this shit
i have to continually break things down to a JR. high level for him.
he never uses logic. doesnt listen when someone explains why this or that wont work after he asks.
here are a couple examples..
he has a 1993 FWD impreza EJ18 automatic.
he is talking about how he wants to..
make it AWD.
make it a 5MT
put a EJ25 into it.
put the 2.5rs bumper, lights, grill, hood, wing etc.
allow wheels.
so i tell him. it would probably be easier to sell your car and buy a 2.5rs.
so what does he do? buys a 2.5 rs that matches the discription above that just needs some body work, so he can swap the
AWD, 5MT, EJ25, bumper, lights, grill, hood, wheels, brakes, into his car..
so this prosses takes forever. (still not finished BTW)
and the whole time, he is constantly asking does this work with that? bla bla bla.
i continueally tell him "idk. you will have to research it."
so he gets to the part where he put the standard transmission in the car and he is ready to start it.
(which i might add, i warned him like 14 times about having to jump the nutral start switch to start it)
big suprise... car wont start.
so i tell him AGAIN. you need to take a wire and plug it into these to pins on the harness. i even show him.
he has no clue what im talking about. so i try to explain, the car has a switch that tells the TCU that the trans is in park so it can start.
still no clue. i could have been saying it in french. so i leave and come back and what has he done? taken the shift selinoid off the auto trans and ziptied it to the manual trans and just put it in park.
now he is saying he wants to put cams in his 2.5. but he doesnt have money for that, right now, so he is "just gonna turbo the 1.8 till i have the money to get cams"... let me repeat "JUST GONNA TURBO THE 1.8" as if just turboing it is a "ill do it tonight after work" type of thing.
and me and everyone i work with is telling him, save the money, buy the cams.
he also has plans of "making it faster than a WRX" which is doable in a GC with a 2.5 done right (you know cams, pistons, intake, exhaust)
however, he wants to try some different things for power.. such as...individual throttle bodies, with velocity stacks, and having the exhaust come out behind the front wheels.
i tell him its gonna be a huge pain in the ass, expensive, and not really any performace gain.
he says i just wanna prove it can be done.
i say. i didnt say it cant be done. i said its gonna be hard and expensive.
he says no im just gonna cut the intake manifold and have them go strait up.
i ask what is he gonna use to messure airflow, control idle, where are the vacuum lines gonna connect.
he says.. i dont need any of that.
btw another of his other future mods is the backwards wrx scoop to make it a cowl induction.
a couple days ago he got a reverse light ticket. (how the F do you do that btw)
so now he has to fix it, and he asked for me to help him.
so i tell him both the automatic and the manual have a switch for the reverse lights. and he needs to wire the manual trans harness (4 wires total) to the auto trans harness (total of 12 wires)
so after watch him try to figure it out for a while i tell him to go to legacy central and find the how to thread on it.
20 minutes. no luck. so i have to go and pull up the thread.
i tell him to read the paragraph with the reverse lights.
he says so i just plug a wire from pin 9 to pin 10 right.
me: no, then your lights would be on all the time..
him: so then i just plug in pins 1 and 3 together?
me: what?? no. how would pluging the transmission wires into each other turn the reverse lights on?
him: so then how do i do this.
(i wanted him to use his brain so i tried to help him along with out telling him exact what to do)
me: so the switch in the trans just closes a circut, right? k, so you need that to be the switch to the reverse lights. how are you gonna do that?
him: um i dont know..
me: you need a power in, and power out, right? k. so you need to take power from the car or TCU plug send it to the transmission so when you put the car in reverse it sends power to the lights.
him: this is confusing.
me: no its not! take this wire (holds it in fingers) this one has power when the ignition is on and is running thru a fuse. so its safe. connect it with this wire (holds in fingers) this wire goes to the reverse switch. then connect this wire (points it out) and this wire (points it out) so that when that switch closes the circut, the electricity will go from the switch to the reverse lights.
him: this is to compicated, ill just do it some other time.
i could go on and on and on