I was under the impression that Granny Shifting was skipping 2nd gear in a manual transmission car where the shifter is on the steering column. 2nd gear is up and away from the driver and grannies can’t reach that far up, so granny shift by skipping 2nd and go from 1st right to 3rd
Back in the early 70s we use the term “on the pipe” to refer to hitting the power band on a two stroke motorcycle with an expansion chamber. Basically the same thing you’re saying but it really makes more sense, when you hit the pipe in a two stroke with an expansion chamber you go from like 5 hp to 40 in a split second.
I believe 3/4 race cam goes back to the days of flatheads. I think it was Ed Winfield who first marketed a "3/4 race cam" which used the intake lobe from his full race cam along with a much less aggressive exhaust lobe profile and named it the 3/4 race cam. I've also heard the terminology credited to Zora Duntov who sold cams as 30/30, 50/50, etc.
Bedding in breaks is a literal term. A properly broke-in brake system embeds pad material into the rotor or drum. Its the friction from pad material on the rotor/drum surface and the brake pad itself that really stops a car.
Thanks, ya can teach an old dog new expressions. First time I herd “spool it up” was in GSM school (navy gas turbine mechanic) in 1977 and I’m sure it predates that, the Spool was the turbine rotor. Starting procedure was to spin the turbine rotor to n1 speed hit the igniters the open the fuel control. ( of course this was automatic the operator monitored the process) Old school turbo has a rotor was called a spool .
You nailed that Tony. On the pipe back in the day for the old two stroke dirt bikes and also the Kawasaki H1 and H2 triples, any 2stroke that ran an expansion chamber was a dog until it was "on the pipe"
Those flat liners didn't actually get on the pipe nor really have expansion chambers. They were just run of the mill piston port induction. And if say they exploded is a joke! They basically just pulled, nothing explosive about them, was basically a flat power band, nothing exciting. Now ride a mid 70's to early/mid 80's motocross bike and then you will know what a real 2stroke power band is! More so the 125's.
Stage one, two and three go back to the 1960's with the Buick GS which offered three levels of performance engines with stage three being the highest horsepower output.
Thanks for this fun video! About “On the pipe” , I think they call the sound wave reverberation “harmonic resonance “using sound waves to keep more of the intake charge in the cylinder of a piston port engine.
3/4 race cams were actually marketed and sold as such. From my knowledge it first appeared in the late 40s with the popularity of the Ford flathead. I'm running a cam in my 303 Oldsmobile that Isky sold as a 3/4 racing cam.
If you had a racing cam in your engine, it was said to be 'lumpy', because of the way it idled. I've raced cars since before the stone age(lol), I've never heard of a lot of the automotive vernacular you reference. Different generations are using sayings, along with changing everyday slang. It's always good to learn something new!
Stock, 1/4 race,3/4 race and full race. We use these terms back in the day. We weren't trying to be precise just in the ballpark. We used to save weeding it meant to say lightening it up, by pulling out unnecessary stuff of the body.
Bang shifting back in the 70’s was synonymous was speed shifting. That is, shifting a manual trans without lifting off the accelerator. Just like you showed in the video clip. BTW, good luck and most importantly have an awesome time this week on Sick Week!
I've heard that term "on the pipe" used alot for model aircraft 2 stroke engines and I believe it is primarily 2 stroke engine terminology because you can clearly hear a 2 stroke clean right up and sing when it is on the pipe when the exhaust pulses match the pipe chamber length
Stage 1,2,3,4 is commonly used with Harley Davidson "screaming eagle" performance modifications. Stage one usually means high flow exhaust, air cleaner, and a tune to match. Stage 2 those things and a cam or those things and head work. Stage 3 add cam, head work, bigger throttle body, maybe more displacement and so on up to Stage 4 which is the hole bag of onions. Fun video!
I think it does ultimately come from Gran Turismo originally, but it's pretty common to have off the shelf (OTS) ECU maps that have stage names with similar stipulations. It's nonsense marketing lingo that helps these companies sell performance upgrades to people who don't know anything about their cars. So, you can take your GTI or Harley-Davidson to the local dealer and ask them to make it Stage 2. Very silly, but we live in a silly world.
The term "3/4 race cam" refers to the fact that the camshaft has a moderate lift and duration, falling between a milder street cam and a more aggressive full race cam. In the early days of hot-rodding and performance engine building, camshafts were commonly referred to by their duration or lift measurements, which were often rounded to the nearest quarter-inch. For example, a camshaft with 0.400 inches of lift might be referred to as a "four-hundredth cam" or a "quarter-inch cam", while a camshaft with 0.500 inches of lift might be called a "five-hundredth cam" or a "half-inch cam". A 3/4 race camshaft typically has lift and duration specifications that fall between a mild street cam (usually around 0.400 to 0.450 inches of lift) and a full race cam (usually 0.500 inches of lift or more). The term "3/4 race" therefore arose to describe camshafts that were more aggressive than a mild street cam, but not as extreme as a full race cam.
Bedding is the process of transferring brake pad material onto the rotor. Think 3/4 race cam is from early days of hotrodding when aftermarket cam selection was very limited.
Fun fact, when Arnold jumped the Harley, it was actually a stunt rider who happens to be Black. He wore a lot of makeup to make him look like he's White. The helicopter scene, the T1000 had three arms. Two to pilot the chopper, third arm with the MP5 submachine gun. My favorite movie of all time. I watched it so much as a kid that the VHS tape wore out.
I think the "stages" come from the Harley world, They have stage 1, stage 2, stage 3 & stage 4. Each is more highly modified than the last. It goes from just a freer flowing air cleaner & exhaust, all the way to tearing the engine apart & changing everything for performance.
FYI... "Let it eat" is a variation of "Let the big dog eat" i.e. don't get in the way; "On the pipe" is an old two-stroke description for when the engine begins to actually USE the expansion chamber and the power just JUMPS (it doesn't really work for 4-strokes, but it sounds neat); "Bedding the brakes" is really just applicable to drum brakes, where the brake shoes have to wear to the exact shape/size of the drum itself (for disc brakes, you'd call it "scuffing").
Toe and Go is actually a motorcycle reference and it's Toe to Go. It's for hand shifted, foot clutch motorcycles. Heal clutch is pulled in, then Tow to Go. 1952 was the last year on Harley.
In the 80s and 90s “put it on the chip” meant a completely different thing than what you said. As computer controlled systems became more prevalent on cars in the 80s, performance companies started offering literal computer chips that you would install in your ecu to defeat safety and emission restrictions as well as change shift points and other parameters. Essentially the precursor to modern tuning. Instead of being able to use a computer or tuner, you had to get a preprogrammed computer chip and replace the factory one. It was literally the first thing on the list for performance add ons for many of us racers in that time period. I’ll never forget the first time I did a chip replacement on my 92 firebird.
While what you said is true, I don't ever remember it associated with the phrase "put it on the chip". You might have said "I put a chip in it" or more slangly "I am going to chip it".
I thought "On the Pipe" Meant Getting the car into Boost. Which I guess is almost the same as a car being into it's power band or it's most powerful rev range. But I thought the "Pipe" was referring to the Turbo piping a=or Supercharger piping etc. 7:12 That Bang Shifting footage was AWESOME! I watched it three times LOL!
Hmm, I remember that the "Tow & Go" was for those guys that didn't have a trailer & would put a tow bar on the drag car & hitch it up to the family station wagon, & take some of the kids... Lol! But, if ya can't figure it out, blame it on the "Johnson Rod", lol!! Nice education segment, everybody needs an extra chuckle ! Thanx !
Back in the day LOTs of camshafts were advertised as 3/4 race. Who knows many were sold. Believe it or not, folks bought performance car parts before the Internet, when mixing and matching among vendors invited incompatibilities that individuals would be challenged to sort, so many well-regarded performance parts suppliers would bundle coordinated parts in stages 1, 2, etc.
Remember that it was simpler times. Most people did not have access to the knowledge on hand today. It was just an easy way to sell something without having to explain too much. Also, much less stuff was available back then. It was just a few lobe profiles at various lifts all of which were just solid flat tappets.
Lots of old guys in the comments. This old guy remembers the Yamaha RD 350 with "Chambers". An exhaust that started off the same size as the port. Flared out to roughly 5 or 6 times that size. Then narrowed back down to a size roughly a 1/4 or 1/3 of the exhaust port. There was no merging. Each cylinder had it own pipe. Suzuki's were exotic looking. They were 3 cylinders in some cases. The point is it may have been a better illustration then the dirt bike. But then again you were just a twinkle in the eyes if your parents back then. Good stuff never the less.
New kid at work was trying to make conversation with me and asked how my weekend was. I said something like " Good but Sat night I was in a sleeper and some idiot riceburner staged on me downtown, i hade him, but lifted because i knew there was cops everywhere in the area. Next time!", then I laughed. Kid said he had no clue what I had just said and has not spoken to me since. No loss for sure, but I'll try to keep that talk to friends from now on.
I wonder how many of these terms are regional?....I've never heard "On the pipe", Weed it" but thanks for the video, very entertaining. Also agree the term "Stage" is annoying. I here it & instantly want to start slapping!
The 3/4 race cam expression comes from the Ford flathead world. An engine built with a cam having .750 intake lift was said to have a "3/4 race cam". Thus Endith The Lesson
When I was growing up, Stage 1 was stock equivalent; stock level of performance, no loss in road manners/reliability, no additional maintenance requirements above stock. Stage 2 was a mild upgrade which increased performance with minimal loss of "stock level" performance, but not to the point of risking an unexpected grenade; with a little more additional maintenance. Think adding a couple of pounds of boost and an ECU tune. Stage 3 was living on the edge, performance way higher than stock, lots of extra maintenance/warm up, loss of every day "streetability", and hi potential of grenading. Think forged pistons, heavy forced induction on what started as a normally aspirated engine, and clutch plates that required you to never skip leg day at the gym. Then they turned it up to stage 4, which by the previous logic meant you were always working on it and it was about as likely to blow up as to start up when you turned the key. This would be your garage level dude trying to run in the top fuel category against the factory backed guys.
Very close on the pipe . When you run a two stroke with an expantion chamber pipe at a specific rpm it will make a scavenging efect pulling more exaust out faster. Call it a tuned pipe.
To the 3/4 race cam, i was always told it got its start back in the day with flatheads and Isky cams, and i believe they were 3/4 cams in the catalogs, but i honestly have no idea. Always thought it was neat history if theres any truth to it.
Didn't know on the pipe, toe and go, or put it on the chip. Flash the converter -- we always added what stall converter we were running. "Yeah I got a 3500 stall. I flash it and go". I also like give it the beans and open the tap. Also, we'd say we were burning off carbon for doing a fast run.
lol, These were good. Here's a few more ya missed or am I showing my age? Bang Shift = Flat shift... Supercharged = blown, stuffer... NOS = Bottle fed... Full Throttle = Pedal to the metal, floor it.
Where I come from, (Indiana) let it eat is a dirt bike, 4 wheeler term used to mean let the tires chew up the dirt. I’m not saying that your wrong just that around here let’er eat means give it all you got. Great video.
The kid from the Terminator 2 is riding a 1990 Honda XR100. Whatever the displacement, I believe XRs were all 4-strokes while the 2-stroke Hondas were called CRs. I agree that 'on the pipe' refers to how 2-strokes perform when their engine speed corresponds to the resonance at which their expansion chambers do the best job of pushing escaping gases back into their combustion chambers.
I've aspired to shift half as good as "Grumpy" ever since I saw that clip in the late 1980's. "Money Shift"= "The limit of your 💳 when you dare to make that shift".
"Toe and Go". I grew up in the late 50's and into the mid 60's... I associate this more with "Heel and Toe". You'd have your toe on the brake and your heel on the gas... slip the toe off the brake and mash down on the loud pedal as you release the clutch.
Tony loved this video! But man I have to hammer on you about the Terminator clip! I remember that from the movie Kid is riding a Honda XR 4 Stroke and they put a fake 2 stroke noise to it Wack!!
16:22 - It's technically both wrong and right at the same time. The term originates from 2-strokes racing, yes, but it gained more traction in the 500cc Formula 3 scene back in the late '40s and '50s: Stirling Moss is on the record (just look at the books from Foulis and written by C.A.N. May) saying that, and it generally means having the engine at peak power RPM: in that case, the exhaust pipe enhances the sound coming from the engine because it's in tune to the frequency at which the gas is coming out, so it gets loud as hell. Back in those days it was also called "Be on the megaphone".
Thank god Tony put an end to the nerds saying stage 2 stage 3 blah blah…. Hate that with a passion!!! Also I’m with you Tony Angelo manual fun cars for me over faster autos any day of the week!!!
Always cracked me up in that Terminator 2 clip where John Connor is racing his bike to escape; it's a Honda XR100R with a 2 stroke soundtrack. Friggin foley fools.
Dude saying On the Pipe, that Dude ain't Kicking it anymore, In the Weeds, to me Meant Low, Lowered VW and or Mini Truck era is when I heard that One, OC California.. Slush-Box ? Anyone?.. Rowing Gears..
Horton restaurants for years I love cars BMX and all that good stuff me getting in the weeds is when I have too many tickets and I feel like I can't get through it put my foot in it and get through it my dad was a hot-rodder take it as you want
Stages are dumb, but the aftermarket has really pushed it, especially on people who run OTS maps. So, companies like Cobb, Unitronic, IE, etc. all tend to have "stages" for their OTS maps. There is some vague logic to it usually, like you get a stage 2 map if you have a downpipe and intake, stage 3 if you have a certain turbocharger, etc.. It's dumb.
“Granny shifting, not double clutching like you should” 😂😂
How old of a car does it need to be for the tranny (not the modern one) to NOT have a synchro? How old do you have to be to know this?
Up you go.
Granny shift in the granny gear is how it should be done, lmao
I was under the impression that Granny Shifting was skipping 2nd gear in a manual transmission car where the shifter is on the steering column. 2nd gear is up and away from the driver and grannies can’t reach that far up, so granny shift by skipping 2nd and go from 1st right to 3rd
@@drew1224 That’s what I thought. At least that’s how older guys (in their early 20’s) explained it to me in the 1960’s.
Back in the early 70s we use the term “on the pipe” to refer to hitting the power band on a two stroke motorcycle with an expansion chamber. Basically the same thing you’re saying but it really makes more sense, when you hit the pipe in a two stroke with an expansion chamber you go from like 5 hp to 40 in a split second.
Called it that in the late 90s early 2000s too.
I’ve always thought of that term in a two stroke setting… and yeah, 5hp to 40hp in FUUUUUUUUCCKKKKK.2 seconds
I have never heard anyone say "on the pipe" before, haha
On the pipe is a motocross term that I heard a lot used at the track in the 2000s.
You know it’s Monday when you see Tony. Ready to Stay Tuned! You got the best thing going in the car space on RUclips. Keep it up brother.
Thanks man! Appreciate it
I believe 3/4 race cam goes back to the days of flatheads. I think it was Ed Winfield who first marketed a "3/4 race cam" which used the intake lobe from his full race cam along with a much less aggressive exhaust lobe profile and named it the 3/4 race cam. I've also heard the terminology credited to Zora Duntov who sold cams as 30/30, 50/50, etc.
yep
I heard it was a cam designed to work best on a 3/4 mile race track but I could very well have been fed a line of BS too.
Steve Dulcich is the current king of the bangshift.
Bedding in breaks is a literal term. A properly broke-in brake system embeds pad material into the rotor or drum. Its the friction from pad material on the rotor/drum surface and the brake pad itself that really stops a car.
Thanks, ya can teach an old dog new expressions. First time I herd “spool it up” was in GSM school (navy gas turbine mechanic) in 1977 and I’m sure it predates that, the Spool was the turbine rotor. Starting procedure was to spin the turbine rotor to n1 speed hit the igniters the open the fuel control. ( of course this was automatic the operator monitored the process) Old school turbo has a rotor was called a spool .
You nailed that Tony. On the pipe back in the day for the old two stroke dirt bikes and also the Kawasaki H1 and H2 triples, any 2stroke that ran an expansion chamber was a dog until it was "on the pipe"
Those flat liners didn't actually get on the pipe nor really have expansion chambers. They were just run of the mill piston port induction. And if say they exploded is a joke! They basically just pulled, nothing explosive about them, was basically a flat power band, nothing exciting. Now ride a mid 70's to early/mid 80's motocross bike and then you will know what a real 2stroke power band is! More so the 125's.
Stage one, two and three go back to the 1960's with the Buick GS which offered three levels of performance engines with stage three being the highest horsepower output.
Thanks for this fun video! About “On the pipe” , I think they call the sound wave reverberation “harmonic resonance “using sound waves to keep more of the intake charge in the cylinder of a piston port engine.
3/4 race cams were actually marketed and sold as such. From my knowledge it first appeared in the late 40s with the popularity of the Ford flathead. I'm running a cam in my 303 Oldsmobile that Isky sold as a 3/4 racing cam.
That's awesome, a true 3/4 race cam! Thanks for watching!
If you had a racing cam in your engine, it was said to be 'lumpy', because of the way it idled. I've raced cars since before the stone age(lol), I've never heard of a lot of the automotive vernacular you reference. Different generations are using sayings, along with changing everyday slang. It's always good to learn something new!
Thanks for watching!
Stock, 1/4 race,3/4 race and full race. We use these terms back in the day. We weren't trying to be precise just in the ballpark. We used to save weeding it meant to say lightening it up, by pulling out unnecessary stuff of the body.
Showing a clip of Dulcich bang shifting the Cougar would have been an awesome example during the bangshift segment.
Bang shifting back in the 70’s was synonymous was speed shifting. That is, shifting a manual trans without lifting off the accelerator. Just like you showed in the video clip.
BTW, good luck and most importantly have an awesome time this week on Sick Week!
I grew up in the 50's / 60's and the term "in the weeds" meant any lowered car / truck was "in the weeds".
When I heard Neutral Drop I was extatic, I was doing it in my 78 Benz 250 to drift on the move
8:43 "Give me lift, give me duration, give me power that I'm makin'" - Metallica probably
Hey man! Didn't know you're with Haggerty now that's pretty awesome 🙌🏾
Honestly, I consider Tony the best automotive program personality & mechanic
Thanks for watching, appreciate it!
I've heard that term "on the pipe" used alot for model aircraft 2 stroke engines and I believe it is primarily 2 stroke engine terminology because you can clearly hear a 2 stroke clean right up and sing when it is on the pipe when the exhaust pulses match the pipe chamber length
Stage 1,2,3,4 is commonly used with Harley Davidson "screaming eagle" performance modifications. Stage one usually means high flow exhaust, air cleaner, and a tune to match. Stage 2 those things and a cam or those things and head work. Stage 3 add cam, head work, bigger throttle body, maybe more displacement and so on up to Stage 4 which is the hole bag of onions.
Fun video!
Kennedy also has different stage clutches. Stage one is stock. 2 is the next level, for bigger tires etc.
I think it does ultimately come from Gran Turismo originally, but it's pretty common to have off the shelf (OTS) ECU maps that have stage names with similar stipulations. It's nonsense marketing lingo that helps these companies sell performance upgrades to people who don't know anything about their cars. So, you can take your GTI or Harley-Davidson to the local dealer and ask them to make it Stage 2. Very silly, but we live in a silly world.
The term "3/4 race cam" refers to the fact that the camshaft has a moderate lift and duration, falling between a milder street cam and a more aggressive full race cam.
In the early days of hot-rodding and performance engine building, camshafts were commonly referred to by their duration or lift measurements, which were often rounded to the nearest quarter-inch. For example, a camshaft with 0.400 inches of lift might be referred to as a "four-hundredth cam" or a "quarter-inch cam", while a camshaft with 0.500 inches of lift might be called a "five-hundredth cam" or a "half-inch cam".
A 3/4 race camshaft typically has lift and duration specifications that fall between a mild street cam (usually around 0.400 to 0.450 inches of lift) and a full race cam (usually 0.500 inches of lift or more). The term "3/4 race" therefore arose to describe camshafts that were more aggressive than a mild street cam, but not as extreme as a full race cam.
Dude, you crack me up! Truly love your sense of humor! Thank you for the great content!
Bedding is the process of transferring brake pad material onto the rotor. Think 3/4 race cam is from early days of hotrodding when aftermarket cam selection was very limited.
We had "getting 2nd gear rubber", "layin drag", "peelin out" (same thing), and "kick it" which was usually said right before "let'er eat".
The video clip from the terminator wasn't a two stroke!! That was an XR.
Weed it to me was usually working out the bugs. Like "weed out the bugs" to fix all the small problems.
I always thought about that scene on Terminator when I was kid. He's on a four-stroke Honda XR but it sounds like a 2 cycle. Always made me laugh.
Fun fact, when Arnold jumped the Harley, it was actually a stunt rider who happens to be Black. He wore a lot of makeup to make him look like he's White. The helicopter scene, the T1000 had three arms. Two to pilot the chopper, third arm with the MP5 submachine gun. My favorite movie of all time. I watched it so much as a kid that the VHS tape wore out.
That was done intentionally to contrast more with the Harley.
I'll 2nd your opinion for 'on the pipe' - I was about to comment on it, then you said it! Still have my 2 stroke that I bought new in '79.
I think the "stages" come from the Harley world, They have stage 1, stage 2, stage 3 & stage 4. Each is more highly modified than the last. It goes from just a freer flowing air cleaner & exhaust, all the way to tearing the engine apart & changing everything for performance.
Why does Tony gotta be so fuckin cool. I love it. He's just a dude like the rest of us. Quite refreshing these days.
FYI... "Let it eat" is a variation of "Let the big dog eat" i.e. don't get in the way; "On the pipe" is an old two-stroke description for when the engine begins to actually USE the expansion chamber and the power just JUMPS (it doesn't really work for 4-strokes, but it sounds neat); "Bedding the brakes" is really just applicable to drum brakes, where the brake shoes have to wear to the exact shape/size of the drum itself (for disc brakes, you'd call it "scuffing").
Toe and Go is actually a motorcycle reference and it's Toe to Go. It's for hand shifted, foot clutch motorcycles. Heal clutch is pulled in, then Tow to Go. 1952 was the last year on Harley.
Guy in an S10 came past my house and had to " throw out the laundry" pull a parachute to stop. It was awesome!!!
In the 80s and 90s “put it on the chip” meant a completely different thing than what you said.
As computer controlled systems became more prevalent on cars in the 80s, performance companies started offering literal computer chips that you would install in your ecu to defeat safety and emission restrictions as well as change shift points and other parameters. Essentially the precursor to modern tuning. Instead of being able to use a computer or tuner, you had to get a preprogrammed computer chip and replace the factory one. It was literally the first thing on the list for performance add ons for many of us racers in that time period. I’ll never forget the first time I did a chip replacement on my 92 firebird.
While what you said is true, I don't ever remember it associated with the phrase "put it on the chip". You might have said "I put a chip in it" or more slangly "I am going to chip it".
3:13 On The Pipe makes more since to be linked to surfing you can just hear it from the songs when car culture and surfing started to meld in Cali
I thought "On the Pipe" Meant Getting the car into Boost. Which I guess is almost the same as a car being into it's power band or it's most powerful rev range. But I thought the "Pipe" was referring to the Turbo piping a=or Supercharger piping etc. 7:12 That Bang Shifting footage was AWESOME! I watched it three times LOL!
Hmm, I remember that the "Tow & Go" was for those guys that didn't have a trailer & would put a tow bar on the drag car & hitch it up to the family station wagon, & take some of the kids... Lol!
But, if ya can't figure it out, blame it on the "Johnson Rod", lol!! Nice education segment, everybody needs an extra chuckle ! Thanx !
Back in the day LOTs of camshafts were advertised as 3/4 race. Who knows many were sold.
Believe it or not, folks bought performance car parts before the Internet,
when mixing and matching among vendors invited incompatibilities that individuals would be challenged to sort,
so many well-regarded performance parts suppliers would bundle coordinated parts in stages 1, 2, etc.
Got another one for you Tony. “It lit the candles”. Refers to when flames are visible out the exhaust when running nitrous.
Surprised we didn’t get an explanation of “money shift” but otherwise great video as usual.
LOLLL
Money shift is a really good one. Going for the upshift when you accidentally downshift. “MONEY!”
Soooo..."On the chip" is just the digital equivalent to the analog "Balls out", meaning to run at the max governed output.
I am waiting for balls out
The old steam engine term.
Great topic and nice job explaining I think your the only one to actually discuss it on the lubetube
Crane and lots of other companies sold "3/4 race cams" in the 50s.
Remember that it was simpler times. Most people did not have access to the knowledge on hand today. It was just an easy way to sell something without having to explain too much. Also, much less stuff was available back then. It was just a few lobe profiles at various lifts all of which were just solid flat tappets.
Lots of old guys in the comments. This old guy remembers the Yamaha RD 350 with "Chambers". An exhaust that started off the same size as the port. Flared out to roughly 5 or 6 times that size. Then narrowed back down to a size roughly a 1/4 or 1/3 of the exhaust port. There was no merging. Each cylinder had it own pipe. Suzuki's were exotic looking. They were 3 cylinders in some cases. The point is it may have been a better illustration then the dirt bike. But then again you were just a twinkle in the eyes if your parents back then. Good stuff never the less.
Love seeing you back tony. Missed you from hot rod garage.
Great show. I really enjoyed it.
New kid at work was trying to make conversation with me and asked how my weekend was. I said something like " Good but Sat night I was in a sleeper and some idiot riceburner staged on me downtown, i hade him, but lifted because i knew there was cops everywhere in the area. Next time!", then I laughed. Kid said he had no clue what I had just said and has not spoken to me since. No loss for sure, but I'll try to keep that talk to friends from now on.
I wonder how many of these terms are regional?....I've never heard "On the pipe", Weed it" but thanks for the video, very entertaining. Also agree the term "Stage" is annoying. I here it & instantly want to start slapping!
The 3/4 race cam expression comes from the Ford flathead world. An engine built with a cam having .750 intake lift was said to have a "3/4 race cam".
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When I was growing up, Stage 1 was stock equivalent; stock level of performance, no loss in road manners/reliability, no additional maintenance requirements above stock.
Stage 2 was a mild upgrade which increased performance with minimal loss of "stock level" performance, but not to the point of risking an unexpected grenade; with a little more additional maintenance. Think adding a couple of pounds of boost and an ECU tune.
Stage 3 was living on the edge, performance way higher than stock, lots of extra maintenance/warm up, loss of every day "streetability", and hi potential of grenading. Think forged pistons, heavy forced induction on what started as a normally aspirated engine, and clutch plates that required you to never skip leg day at the gym.
Then they turned it up to stage 4, which by the previous logic meant you were always working on it and it was about as likely to blow up as to start up when you turned the key. This would be your garage level dude trying to run in the top fuel category against the factory backed guys.
The 3/4 race cams were available from JC Whitney.
Very close on the pipe . When you run a two stroke with an expantion chamber pipe at a specific rpm it will make a scavenging efect pulling more exaust out faster. Call it a tuned pipe.
Spooling up is a gas turbine/jet engine thing. Gas turbines run at 20,000 rpm.
They sure do, thanks for watching!
I always got a kick out of the term(s) "balls out" / "balls to the wall," especially when you use it around the uninitiated, lol.
To the 3/4 race cam, i was always told it got its start back in the day with flatheads and Isky cams, and i believe they were 3/4 cams in the catalogs, but i honestly have no idea. Always thought it was neat history if theres any truth to it.
Didn't know on the pipe, toe and go, or put it on the chip. Flash the converter -- we always added what stall converter we were running. "Yeah I got a 3500 stall. I flash it and go". I also like give it the beans and open the tap. Also, we'd say we were burning off carbon for doing a fast run.
Long live the internal combustion engine.
lol, These were good. Here's a few more ya missed or am I showing my age? Bang Shift = Flat shift... Supercharged = blown, stuffer... NOS = Bottle fed... Full Throttle = Pedal to the metal, floor it.
"Swapped ends" has been used for many years here in the UK. More than 60 years anyway, possibly much more.
Where I come from, (Indiana) let it eat is a dirt bike, 4 wheeler term used to mean let the tires chew up the dirt. I’m not saying that your wrong just that around here let’er eat means give it all you got. Great video.
The kid from the Terminator 2 is riding a 1990 Honda XR100. Whatever the displacement, I believe XRs were all 4-strokes while the 2-stroke Hondas were called CRs. I agree that 'on the pipe' refers to how 2-strokes perform when their engine speed corresponds to the resonance at which their expansion chambers do the best job of pushing escaping gases back into their combustion chambers.
That was a terrible movie clip for the subject he was talking about. The sound was a 2 stroke. The XR is a 4 stroke. 😂😤
I've aspired to shift half as good as "Grumpy" ever since I saw that clip in the late 1980's.
"Money Shift"= "The limit of your 💳 when you dare to make that shift".
Let ‘r eat also refers to the tires. Off-road if you’re hitting a mud pit you can let ‘r eat by spinning up the tires to eat it’s way through the pit.
It basically refers to anything where you let the machine work. Can't imagine anybody not understanding that expression.
"Toe and Go". I grew up in the late 50's and into the mid 60's... I associate this more with "Heel and Toe". You'd have your toe on the brake and your heel on the gas... slip the toe off the brake and mash down on the loud pedal as you release the clutch.
Two things. Thanks Tony for clearing some things up. Second, I’d like to sincerely apologize to some past brakes. I’m a different person now.
When I heard "toe & go", first thing that came to mind was "stow & go" seats in a minivan LOL
Had to give in and sub now that my guy Tony is on board lol
I heard it came from the flathead days. You didn’t have a catalog full of grinds you just had stock, 3/4 race and full race.
Tony loved this video! But man I have to hammer on you about the Terminator clip! I remember that from the movie Kid is riding a Honda XR 4 Stroke and they put a fake 2 stroke noise to it Wack!!
Tony is mostly accurate
Interesting! Thank you for sharing!
That was fun! few clips, make some jokes, solid!
I feel like this is words from the past. Not a lot of people use these terms anymore. I only heard a few terms that people still use today
16:22 - It's technically both wrong and right at the same time. The term originates from 2-strokes racing, yes, but it gained more traction in the 500cc Formula 3 scene back in the late '40s and '50s: Stirling Moss is on the record (just look at the books from Foulis and written by C.A.N. May) saying that, and it generally means having the engine at peak power RPM: in that case, the exhaust pipe enhances the sound coming from the engine because it's in tune to the frequency at which the gas is coming out, so it gets loud as hell. Back in those days it was also called "Be on the megaphone".
Thank god Tony put an end to the nerds saying stage 2 stage 3 blah blah…. Hate that with a passion!!! Also I’m with you Tony Angelo manual fun cars for me over faster autos any day of the week!!!
Always cracked me up in that Terminator 2 clip where John Connor is racing his bike to escape; it's a Honda XR100R with a 2 stroke soundtrack. Friggin foley fools.
Some for drifting
Swing it
Chuck it
Give it the beans
Pedal it
Float
High-Rise,
Low-Rise,
Double Pumper,
Velocity stack's,
Tunnel Ram,
Gear-Crusher,
Slush-Box,
Posi,
Full Locker,
Squeeze,
Baby Bottle,
Huffer, Blower,
Roots Blower,
Dual Quads,
Bump Stick,
Big & Littles,
Laying Rubber, Hooked,
Glasspack, Chambered, straight thru, Cut-Outs,
Lake-Pipes, Bell Flower's,
Chopped, Channeled, Lead Body Fille Means Lead Sled,
Peace
Dude saying On the Pipe, that Dude ain't Kicking it anymore,
In the Weeds, to me Meant
Low, Lowered VW and or Mini Truck era is when I heard that One, OC California..
Slush-Box ? Anyone?.. Rowing Gears..
Funny how the kid on the Honda dirt bike is riding a 4 stroke but they screwed it up and added 2 stroke noise 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Chop, Dump it, clutch kick, dog leg are some of the ones people ask me what im talking about
Glad you got "on the pipe" right.
I've considered myself 'car crazy' for my entire life. No one I know uses these terms. Maybe it's a Cali thing?
“arc the shoes” & “hang & align the rods”
Good video. Maybe do a follow up one of user-requested terms later?
Along with the 3/4 race cam and all the stage 2,3,4 is the “it’s got a “FULL” . . . Blah blah blah” so annoying 😂😂😂
“Non fenced”. Good term
Horton restaurants for years I love cars BMX and all that good stuff me getting in the weeds is when I have too many tickets and I feel like I can't get through it put my foot in it and get through it my dad was a hot-rodder take it as you want
Tony is our guy✅️
bang shift means leaving your foot to the floor on the gas as you shift, listen to grumpy it revs up as he shifts.
My favorite term is " going hot " which I got from my turbine engine aircraft.
The Stage 1, 2, 3 thing comes from the Buick GS world.
Perfect video
I’m watching this from the brown box 🚽
always thought Toe and Go was around road racing guys who'd be Heel and Toe'ing a car into a corner, and going was accelerating out of a corner
Stages are dumb, but the aftermarket has really pushed it, especially on people who run OTS maps. So, companies like Cobb, Unitronic, IE, etc. all tend to have "stages" for their OTS maps. There is some vague logic to it usually, like you get a stage 2 map if you have a downpipe and intake, stage 3 if you have a certain turbocharger, etc.. It's dumb.
Tow and Go was always for trucks that have the ability to tow... and Go...