Fridge / 2 Fast 2 Furious

Fridge Brilliance

• Markham first tries to pair Brian with an Agent Dunn who's first seen drinking a soda from a cup labelled "Gallo's Pizza". Brian tests his tuning knowledge by asking if a Gallo 12 or a Gallo 24 would be a better motor for his Skyline. When Dunn suggests a Gallo 24, Brian rejects him as a partner. At first, it looks like Brian rejected him simply because of his lack of automotive knowledge, but Brian's question highlights some better reasons to reject him:
  • Dunn either didn't notice the name on his soda cup or didn't connect Brian's question to it, meaning he's either unobservant or slow on the uptake. Or both. Brian doesn't want to put his life in the hands of someone that unobservant.
  • He is also visibly caught off guard and hesitant in answering, and looks to his boss before replying, suggesting that he's unable to coolly bluff his way out of a verbal trap - a potentially lethal liability for both of them.
  • Another thing, the "12" and the "24" in the made-up engine names most likely refer to the number of pistons the engines have. Dunn suggests the 24-piston engine, but there is no modern car engine that has that many pistons.
    • This isn't necessarily true, though. A lot of engines have numbers in them that reflect various other components besides pistons, not to mention that it could be a designation of the engine's generation, a particular tuning spec, or other variables. A certain AE-86 was fitted with a legendary tuner engine known as the 4A-GE 20V, not because of its piston count, but because of the number of valves it has in total, which was 20. Nissan's RB engines also use numbers in that range because they drop the decimal from the engine displacement in liters. So the RB26DETT (the engine powering the legendary Skyline GT-R), isn't a 26 cylinder engine, but a 2.6 liter inline 6. You'd have to know a lot about the car community to know off the bat what the numbers in an engine name is referring to, but you'd have to know less about cars to recognize that the Gallo 24 isn't a real engine, and you'd have to be pretty inattentive to not realize that the engine the guy in front of you is quizzing you about has the same name as the pizza joint you just ate at.