Why on earth do they call an exhaust manifold a header?
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20 years ago
Why on earth do they call an exhaust manifold a header?
cus they f00kin st00pid
Same reason they call brake disks rotors ?
I disagree. an exhaust header is nothing like a rotor.
:)
So says the chap who finds the keyboard so confusing.
More to the point, why do y'all Brits call a header the manifold?
Because it is at the head of the exhaust system, I mean, why else would they call the other end the tail pipe?
Do they call the silencers abdomens and the cat the neck?
Nearly. The silencer is the muffler and that goes round the neck.
Like, y'all gott know that,y'know, the motor is under the hood, and you put your cases in the trunk, and when you park use the emergency brake.
Good point. Why refer to the head end of the exhaust system using a synonym for "abundant"?
It's well known that the US uses much-simplified terms for almost everything. The only one I can think of which makes no sense is "rocker panel" for sill. Of course, as an earlier poster reall intelligently pointed out earlier, it could just be because they're f00kin st00pid.
It's when you drive half over a cliff - Italian Job style...
It can mean plural or several, but it can also mean the joint of a number of similar things, which fits, or a mathematically continuous surface, which also sort of fits. Header also has common useage as a device to provide a static pressure to a system, as in 'header tank', which could be confusing.
I don't think 'rotor' is a more useful term than 'brake disc', nor is it shorter than the common 'disc', nor is 'hood' is better than 'bonnet' or 'tachometer' easier to understand than 'rev counter'. I do agree that 'booster' is more sensible than 'servo' and 'oil pan' more descriptive than 'sump'. Compared to understanding how cars work, learning the names of the parts is trivial, so I can only assume it's all part of the great american inferiority complex :-p
Maybe, maybe not.
Having taken the father-in-law's Porsche :) to the shop (garage) to be fixed, there's a bit of a language barrier, and much mirth from both parties! #;-)
A good recent one is 'EXFILTRATE'
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