Plastic crankcase covers? Why?

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I'm pretty sure those covers are cosmetic. You can remove them and let the real crankcase covers show...

[shadowdreamer]

Originally Posted by adlowe

Sounds like a personal problem.

What a strange thing to say.
Personal attack against me because I think plastic engine parts are tacky.

[vonh]

The only problem with the cheap to replace theory is I've never seen a cheap replacement part for my Honda, have you??

[old dad]

Originally Posted by shadowdreamer

What a strange thing to say.
Personal attack against me because I think plastic engine parts are tacky.

,this was often told to me while in the service. ( when bemoaning something while in the navy, the chief would tell us "it sounds like a personal problem".

put your skin on. (ie: change your sensitivity setting)

[Aced It]

Originally Posted by old dad

,this was often told to me while in the service.

put your skin on.

Like in Silence of the Lambs???

[adlowe]

Originally Posted by shadowdreamer

What a strange thing to say.
Personal attack against me because I think plastic engine parts are tacky.

Attack?

Old dad's got it right but said it in a much more friendly way than I would have. (And even that would not have been an attack.)

Try this: Roll things back and think about this:
You don't like something that cannot be changed. Is the world wrong or are you? Either way, if you still can't change it then you have a problem. Unless you are part of a group speaking out with the same complaint, the problem is personal. Got it?

So quit your whining and do something about the problem. I offered you a solution.

[randyd]

Skeumorphism. The practice of making a new material look like a traditional material because the traditional material has a higher percieved value. Think of vinyl siding with wood grain. Skeumorphism bugs me because it's a marketing illusion, and it's a lie.

There are very good engineering reasons to make that crankcase cover out of plastic, so make it look like a plastic cover. The problem is when the plastic cover is made to look like machined and polished aluminum, because then it crosses the line into skeumorphism and becomes a lie.

We hates lies.

[Hondaguy]

Originally Posted by randyd

Skeumorphism. The practice of making a new material look like a traditional material because the traditional material has a higher percieved value. Think of vinyl siding with wood grain. Skeumorphism bugs me because it's a marketing illusion, and it's a lie.

There are very good engineering reasons to make that crankcase cover out of plastic, so make it look like a plastic cover. The problem is when the plastic cover is made to look like machined and polished aluminum, because then it crosses the line into skeumorphism and becomes a lie.

We hates lies.

It's not a lie if the truth is not willfully hidden.... Vinyl siding is better than wood in many respects and we know it's not wood. Plastic chrome has many benefits over metal and no downside unless it's faking a structural part that should be made of something stronger.

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[Aced It]

Originally Posted by randyd

Skeumorphism. The practice of making a new material look like a traditional material because the traditional material has a higher percieved value. Think of vinyl siding with wood grain. Skeumorphism bugs me because it's a marketing illusion, and it's a lie.

There are very good engineering reasons to make that crankcase cover out of plastic, so make it look like a plastic cover. The problem is when the plastic cover is made to look like machined and polished aluminum, because then it crosses the line into skeumorphism and becomes a lie.

We hates lies.

LOL! It's not a "lie" unless one is told that the plastic is actually metal.


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[adlowe]

Originally Posted by Aced It

LOL! It's not a "lie" unless one is told that the plastic is actually metal.

Ironic as all get out that we're discussing what is/isn't a lie on election day.

The way things have been going here (even moreso in a "battleground state"), you'd expect EVERYTHING you hear or read to be a lie.