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Enhance Your Car with a New Muffler
One of the best ways to not only add some horsepower to your vehicle, but add a nice, rich, beefy sound as well is to install a new muffler. Today, you can find a wide variety of muffler products for your car, no matter if it is an import or domestic vehicle. In addition, for those looking to add even more performance, you might also want to add new or custom headers.
Here are some tips:
First off, there are plenty of products that you can choose from. You have a choice of installing a new muffler (whether single or dual) or installing a whole muffler kit including the exhaust, hangers, pipes and pre bent mandrels. For extra power, you may even want to consider purchasing headers. Headers can offer you even more performance than a just installing a muffler because headers provide air to your engine smoothly and evenly which can boost performance and horsepower.
There are plenty of places to shop for a muffler, muffler kits or headers, however online is definitely a great place to start. You can visit a whole bunch of sites to see the wide variety of mufflers and customer mufflers available. No matter what kind of vehicle you have, you will surely find a muffler that fits right and gives your car added performance.
Regarding installation, while a simple muffler set up should be easy enough for a shade tree mechanic, if you are installing custom mufflers and headers, you better let an experienced buddy or professional mechanic do the job for you. As far as cost is concerned, while most mufflers are affordable and won’t necessarily break the bank, a few products can be quite steep and out of reach for most college students.
Tags: Car Maintenance, Car Performance, Car Tuning
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Increase Horsepower with a Supercharger
One of the best ways for a car tuning enthusiast to easily add substantial horsepower to their vehicle is with a supercharger. While superchargers aren’t cheap or easy to install, for those that want the great performance lots of horsepower and extremely quick acceleration a supercharger is definitely worth looking into.
Are Superchargers Bad for Your Engine?
The short answer to this question is yes. Generally speaking, putting in a supercharger in your vehicle will take some years and mileage off the engine, but for those enthusiasts that baby their cars and don’t mind putting money into it in a few years, a supercharger can be a great investment. However, for those that need their car badly to use for work and don’t have a lot of savings, it is better to forgo the supercharger.
There are plenty of manufacturers that sell superchargers and some of the most popular ones that offer decent products include: Procharger, Stillen and Squires. There are also a couple of types of superchargers to choose from. They include positive displacement superchargers and Rotrex superchargers. Generally speaking, Rotrex chargers build up force more evenly and are a little less harsh on your vehicle’s engine.
Also check out the warranty’s that come with the superchargers. Try to pick a supercharger that gives you some reliability.
Once you decide on the charger you want, definitely look to have your supercharger installed professionally. Unless you have some very technical proficient buddies that can install it for you, you are doing yourself a big disservice trying to install it yourself. Since many places charge different prices, see which one offers the best service and best value. While a supercharger can be a big expense, it is definitely worth the thrill of the extra horsepower under your foot.
Tags: Car Maintenance, Car Performance, Car Tuning
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Chrysler ME Four-Twelve
Chrysler every once in a while surprises even the most jaded car enthusiasts. One vehicle that pretty much blew the doors off of many car enthusiasts was the Chrysler ME Four-Twelve. While this is a concept supercar, the idea itself was amazing and as the final vehicle was created, if it would ever go into production, it would surely garner much attention and many buyers.
What is the ME Four-Twelve?
Well, the Chrysler ME Four Twelve stands for Mid Engine, Four turbo boosters and twelve cylinder engine. When this name is explained, most car tuning enthusiasts usually drop their jaw in awe. While it probably will never be produced, most engineers would probably state that this vehicle would cost about $150K to produce- which isn’t bad considering most supercars are two to three times more expensive.
As stated the Chrysler ME Four-Twelve offers a 6 liter V12 that produces an incredible 850 horsepower. How does it achieve this feat, well for starters air being shot into the cylinders is at 20 psi. However, even with this incredible power plant under the hood, you don’t need special fuel to run this baby. Regular, premium unleaded fuel that you buy at your local gas station does the trick- due to the compression ratio of 9:1 instead of the higher ratios that most supercars use (12:1).
The Chrysler ME Four-Twelve approaches the record holder for horsepower per pound. The ME weighs in at about 3,000 pounds giving it about 145 horsepower per liter- extremely impressive numbers and pretty much coming close to the Bugatti Veyron which offers 1,000 horsepower. While the Chrysler ME Four-Twelve won’t be available in your local Chrysler’s showroom anytime soon, we hope as enthusiasts that lessons and technology learned from this vehicle will show up in future models.
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2009 Aston Martin Rapide
Aston Martin is known as the vehicle that James Bond prefers and for decades this car maker has become popular due to this image of luxury, speed and a high price tag. Today, the Aston Martin still makes extremely fast and beautiful vehicles that are extremely expensive and one of the newest vehicles entering the market in 2009 is the Aston Martin Rapide.
The Aston Martin Rapide follows the philosophy and the motto of Aston Martin: power, beauty and soul and once you lay your eyes on this vehicle you realize how wonderful as well as sporty the lines are. The Aston Martin Rapide looks and is very smooth. In fact this long vehicle seems to slide down the road hugging it incredible close. There is a lot to be excited about including the 6 liter V12 engine that produces 480 horsepower. It should be noted that it uses the same engine as the DB9 and since the Aston Martin Rapide has a much longer wheelbase, it has an added 30 horses where the DB9 has only 450. Besides a high performance engine, the transmission is a ZF touchtronic gearbox, which makes it push button easy (literally) to switch from park to drive to reverse to neutral.
Besides plenty of performance, the Aston Martin Rapide offers incredible luxury inside. With luxurious room in the cabin, there is room for 4 comfortably. In addition, the seats are made with a special hide called shagreen, this is made from the skins of sharks and rays. The digital dash is also extremely impressive giving the driver all the information necessary. Overall the Aston Martin Rapide should be a big winner when it debuts in 2009. While this vehicle is expected to be very expensive, as of publishing this entry the price is still not set.
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The Lamborghini Reventon
The Reventon is Lamborghini’s fastest and most expensive vehicle ever produced. While this vehicle is incredibly stylish, the speed and to a large extend the price are extremely high due to the fact that exotic sportscars are now morphing with fighter jet technology, styling and materials. Pretty much what you get with a Lamborghini Reventon is a cutting edge fighter jet made for the track and road.
So what’s the deal with the Lamborghini Reventon and how much is it going to cost to drive the fastest and most sought after Lamborghini ever. Well, Lamborghini is said to only be creating 20 of these legendary vehicles. Just 20 so you can expect demand to be frenzied. In fact, the base price of this vehicle while high, seems a great value, considering that anyone who purchases this masterpiece is sure to see their investment grow. The price for the Lamborghini Reventon is 1.4 million dollars.
The Lamborghini Reventon offers drivers the thrill of a V12 engine that produces an amazing 640 horses and this incredible vehicle can reach speeds of 211 mph. For those looking for great acceleration, the Reventon achieves this goal in near record time- 0 to 60 in about 3.4 seconds.
What truly makes this vehicle stand out is the styling and cockpit. This vehicle is styled so closely to fighter jets that even Lamborghini calls the interior a cockpit. From the ergonomically designed seating created to keep the driver within his or her seats at all times and an LED instrument panel that includes features such as longitudinal acceleration- measuring the forces that a person feels when braking or accelerating in the vehicle, This vehicle is more than road ready- you may feel as if it is the first vehicle that will literally fly off the track into the air.
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