OMG! lol everyone here please oh please stop calling your engine a motor. I dont even know that much about cars, but common!!! a motor is an electronic device. where the hell did you get motor from engine? =]

 

I agree. I try but find myself slipping at times and not caring any more whats correct, I know its an "engine" and dread the day we all have a motor under our hoods.

 

OMG!! i been trying to tell everyone that also ... its an engine, motors are not internal combustion. but i can understand why people would call it that sence its stamp Honda Motor Co. on the mot..... i mean engine.

 

Its all Semantics really.... And a wasted of a thread. I sense a Lock in coming.

 

sure thing buddy check out a dictionary

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/motor?qsrc=2888

 

Maybe you should refer to a proper dictionary. The OP, although clearly displaying signs of OCD, is correct in his description.

To the OP: This thread doesn't belong in a technical forum. Go to General Discussion.

 

its the urban slang... don't fight it

 

cool thread

 

Well then answer me this, why are all sports involving "engines" called motorsports? This is a waste of thread space, I shouldn't have even commented.

 

yawn crickets chirping

 

who cares?

 

some people think of motors in cars and engines are on the tracks.

 

Why's that such a big deal? Electric motors have a flat torque curve. Even with VTEC and the two cam profiles, your power is still more at the top end on a gas motor. With electric, you have far less to worry about, reliability wise. With gas, we have an ignition system, fuel system, as well as an electrical system. With electric, you have like 2 bearings on the motor and replacable brushes if you need to rebuild. Gas has tons of stuff. And I'm sure there are ways to modify the electric motors for more power.

 

FYI electric motors generally have a flatter HP curve, as their peak torque is at zero RPM.

For would-be OCD's here, both terms are relavant. Its just that "engine" is more accurate. "Motor" is still correct, see def #1 and #3. As indicated in #1, these "engines" are small for their power output & are internal combustion, and like in #3 they derive their power from a natural source - gasoline [and ethanol]. BTW Honda makes a pitiful FRACTION of electric "motors" compaired to internal combustion "engines", you think they really got that wrong??

mo⋅tor   /ˈmoʊtər/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [moh-ter] Show IPA
–noun 1. a comparatively small and powerful engine, esp. an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
2. any self-powered vehicle.
3. a person or thing that imparts motion, esp. a contrivance, as a steam engine, that receives and modifies energy from some natural source in order to utilize it in driving machinery.



Here's another phrase that I like to use to correct know-it-alls: "Get off your high horse".

 

on some honda valve covers it says " Honda Motor Co."

 

ok dumb fu*k here is a link to Websters dictionary what do you have to say now

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motor

 

Motor or engine. Who cares?

OP is splitting hairs.

 

This is what happens when you get 15 year olds coming over from Hondacivicforum.com. stay there.

 

 

Lol @ The 15 year old who started this thread!

 

GAME OVER!!!!! and yeah they dont run a "ALL ENGINE" class do they. wish you could bitch slap throught the wire.

 

yeah lol at the kid who started this thread it all has to do with what you were raised with. It's like saying soda or pop it's the same thing. Next time you post a thread like this it may save you some pride if you check a dictionary. I remember i used to wonder which one was correct and then i was watching history channel ha. I was about internal combustions engines and they explained the origins of the two words and said that either one is correct however for some reason people just tend to refer to electrical engines as motors.

BTW since the op decided to obsess about stupid little things that are completely unimportant i find it ironic that he said common when he meant to say come on. I know that it is stupid for me to bring it up but i always chuckle when people are trying to obsess about things other people are doing wrong and can't even use correct grammar.

 

It's Pop!!!! Who the fnck says Soda?!?!?! Lol i know i know.. every state besides ohio says sooooda.

 

I couldn't have put it better myself

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