Thursday, February 4, 2010

Under the Hood

This is how a car starts:

...whoa. I will never be an engineer.

Okay so far as I can tell, turning the key (or whatever) starts a series of computer-run steps that eventually leads to an ignition coil amplifying battery power into a spark that is then used to light vaporized fuel in a chamber. And the engine "turns over."

Also spark plugs.

[For more pretty pictures, go here.]

1 comment:

Connie R said...

First deranged Penguins, now car engines? You're into horror, and your posts are beginning to scare me. Even the secret password is conspiratory: "crout."