06.29.2008 | 8:07 am | Car Modifications
ABS, also known as Anti-lock Braking System, is a system that prevents the wheels from locking while braking. Even if the driver heavily brakes, he can still maintain steering control of his car. The ingenious system prevents skids and keeps the wheel’s forward roll. It also allows the driver to maintain the lateral control of his car. Studies show that by using an ABS, the braking distance is shorter. However, drivers that have ABS on their cars must not feel over-secured because this system has his limitations.
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06.18.2008 | 6:34 am | Car Accessories, Car Modifications
An intercooler (commonly known as charge air cooler) is a heat exchange device used to increase the intake air charge density of supercharged or turbocharged engines. The intercooler can be air-to-air or air-to-liquid. Intercoolers increase the output of the engine by decreasing the air intake temperature. This decrease in temperature provides denser intake charge for the engine and allows a bigger quantity of air and fuel mixture to be combusted on every engine cycle. Intercoolers come in various sizes, shapes, and designs, depending on the supercharger system they are attached to.
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05.14.2008 | 6:42 am | Car Accessories, Car Modifications
A turbocharger is a forced induction compressor. The turbocharger is in fact driven by a turbine powered by the pressure of the engine exhaust gas. All turbochargers are made out of a compressor and a turbine. The turbine’s wheels rotate because of the pressure of the exhaust gases via the turbine’s inlet. The resulted rotation of the wheel drives the compressor which starts to compress air. Optionally, the compressed air can be delivered through an intercooler system to cool it down because hot air degrades the performance of the engine resulting in a loss of power. The air is pumped through the air intake of the engine and because of the high pressure, the cylinder receives more air. So the objective of the turbocharger is to increase the performance of the engine by increasing the quantity of air the cylinders receive. All this additional air that the cylinders receive requires an increase in the amount of fuel being pumped. This means that a turbocharged system will output from 15 to 40 percent more power at high rotations, but at the cost of fuel. The turbocharger has some security features like the wastegate. This wastegate protects the engine from receiving too much at air at high pressure preventing preignition or engine damages. This system works by sending some of the air away from the exhaust turbine and controls the shaft speed.
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04.18.2008 | 7:51 pm | Car Modifications, Car repairs and manuals
By respraying your car, you give it a fantastic new appearance, and after a nice respray your car will look like new. Once in a while, all those scrapes and scratches that build up must be dealt with. The only way you can do this is by respraying you car.
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04.8.2008 | 6:18 am | Car Modifications
In this day and age we all like a little extra bang for our buck, especially when it comes to our beloved cars. It’s a surprising fact that some modern high performance production cars are now as quick as some of the professional rally cars of the 70’s and 80’s! (Take a spin in a Subaru Impreza WRX or a Mitsubishi Evo X if you don’t believe it!)
The motoring public’s ‘need for speed’ has created a demand for these kinds of cars that doesn’t look like fading any time soon. The good news is, we don’t have to trade in our trusty family motors quite yet to enjoy modern performance; we just need some electronic wizardry!
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Performance Chips and Remapping ECU
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03.11.2008 | 1:24 am | Car Modifications
Surely the ultimate after market modification to anyone’s car is a performance enhancing Nitrous Oxide kit! These astounding kits will turn your car from ‘nice but dim’, into a thundering dragster packing pulse pounding brake horsepower!
Key to all this is the burning of extra fuel, for which oxygen is required. The system works by spraying a specific amount of Nitrous Oxide into the car’s combustion chambers, along with a measured amount of additional fuel. The Nitrous Oxide comprises two-thirds oxygen, and this extra O2 allows the car to burn the excess fuel rapidly and efficiently. Nitrogen makes up the remainder of the Nitrous Oxide and is crucial to the system as it keeps the temperature low and stable within the engine chambers. The resulting explosive reaction leads to a ‘super charger’ effect, which sends the engine into massive over drive and boosts your car’s power output by up to 200 brake horsepower!
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