Really stupid question. What's a dizzy?

[pbs911]

I've been on this board for about three years and the term "dizzy" always comes up. I have assumed it is just a term for the distributer. Am I correct or does it refer to a "special" distributer, a part thereof, something else?

[Elombard]

You are correct

[pbs911]

Cool. Now I can amaze my friends and enlighten the unknowing.

[Jack Olsen]

There are no stupid questions. Only stupid nicknames for parts.

[Superman]

I'd have to agree with Jack. I don't mind saying "tranny" when I mean transmission, but for some reason I can't say "dizzy" when I mean distributor. I guess it's just a personal problem.

[JR Indy]

I agree, First time I heard dizzy was on here. When I say it, just shoot me.

[Mike Feinstein]

I remember saying that about owning a cell phone...

[dotorg]

I never heard it called a dizzy before PP, either.

[CarreraS2]

I never use that term, either.

But then again, I don't say "rims" when I am talking about wheels, or "motor" when I am talking about an engine!

[rattlsnak]

>>But then again, I don't say "rims" when I am talking about wheels, or "motor" when I am talking about an engine! <<

or 'Tri-Spacial-Dimensional-Linear-Harmonic-Occilator' when referring to a Slinky !

[Joe Bob]

Dizzy is easier to speel than Distributerer.....

[724doorE]

Yea, I can't handle the motor/engine thing either... oh well!

[IROC]

I'm so anal I used to get hung up about calling anti-roll bars "sway" bars, but I have since caved and call them sway bars all the time.

I don't like "dizzy", though. Kinda like calling cams "bumpsticks". I cringe.

Mike

[Sunroof]

My ex-wife was DIZZZZZZZZZZZY! Really DIZZZZZZZY...........

Bob
73.5T

[BGCarrera32]

Calling it a "Porsch" with no eh on the end drives me nuts...

[Decolliber]

When I used the term anti-roll bar in talking to Audi dealer mechanic, he did not know what I was talking about.
Superman, as a lay pastor, you might want to be careful about the context in which you use the word "tranny."
In Commonwealth countries "motor" colloquially refers to the entire vehicle, as in "nice motor you have there ..."

[Zeke]

Yeh, dizzys, bumpsticks and motors are all sort of low brow speak. It's us old hot rodders that have been doing this car stuff for over 35 years that talk that way. I guess we don't bring much class to the table, just rough-cut experience. I wonder what slang words are commonly used in Germany to describe various parts? I submit that if it was a fatherland term being used, it wouldn't annoy some of you.

[Tim Polzin]

Originally posted by Zeke
I wonder what slang words are commonly used in Germany to describe various parts? I submit that if it was a fatherland term being used, it wouldn't annoy some of you.

They call an engine "der Motor"

Tim

[Joe Bob]

Spanish is "El Motor".....