You know the neatest thing? Those Aisin tranny’s can be disassembled with a set of king sized snap ring pliers and 10/12/14 mm sockets. I completely gutted one and swapped parts to another case and that’s all I needed . Well torque wrench too.

“As an engineer, I wonder if I should start every sentence with “as an engineer...”

Wait, so I shouldn’t start every post with “as an engineer?”

Cutaways are fantastic. You can learn so much (and teach so much) by being able to have a look inside.
Also makes for some neat art as well.

I’ve always found transmissions to just simply be amazing. To me they’re the most amazing and interesting part of an automobile. I absolutely love those cut-aways.

That BMW V8 “hot vee” sure is a beautiful, hot mess

Pessimist: “The glass is half empty.”
Optimist: “The glass is half full.”
Engineer: “The glass has a safety factor of 2.”

“Cut-aways”....phft...big deal. Half of my friends end up with similar results from after they’ve worked on their own vehicles without the proper knowledge, skills, or tools. Only we call them “blow-a-parts.” Anyone can use a saw to cut away select portions of an engine, transmission, or rear end. It takes balls, lack…

If I had a chance to rewind and choose another career - making those cutaways would be it. I’ve seen the shop where Chrysler builds theirs and it looked like a dream job to me - racks of brand new parts waiting patiently to be disassembled, filleted and (sorta) reassembled.

David’s face as he stared into the transmission cutaways filled with beautiful, perfect gears:

Brilliant! Thanks - and the pictures truly don’t communicate the sense of magic at looking inside. Nor the complexity of cutting and re-assembling in a display.

I feel dirty just looking at these. If these were in a magazine, they’d have to be sold behind the counter.

I love these engine cutaways.

I once made a joke about my brother in law, but it fits here as well:

More detailed descriptions would be nice, David. You keep showing Aisin parts but don’t specify which Aisin company, is it Honda, Toyota, KIA, Hyundai, etc.?

Add another engineer to the list of people who love this stuff...

Thank god.

I sometimes worry that I’ll write these nerdy things, and literally zero people will care.

Now I know at least one will!

Every time I read a technical piece by you, I think “wow its scary how much we’re fascinated by the same things” then I remember you’re an engineer too, and that stuff like this is what makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside.