Car 2013
New cars and old cars
Friday, June 14, 2013
Feds Probing Floormats In Ford Fusion Mercury Milan
Doesnt matter what the brand, a poorly installed or wrong-sized floormat can trap accelerator pedals.
NHTSA says its recieved three complaints that Fords "All Weather" floormat can trap the gas pedal when laid on top of the standard floor mat.
Read the full consumer advisory here.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Ford Fusion Hybrid Wins Break Even Contest
Sunday, June 9, 2013
New Car Review Nissan Leaf
The 2011 Nissan Leaf. Park one next to a Juke and contemplate automotive styling. |
The interior of the 2011 Nissan Leaf: Futuristic, but functional. |
Like optimism? Youll love the 2011 Nissan Leafs range meter. |
The panel around the Nissan logo on the 2011 Leaf? Thats the flap that opens for the charger. |
Friday, June 7, 2013
Automotive muffler ram action with their own hands
The main objective is working at many companies for the production of direct-flow systems is the maximum utilization of the potential flow of exhaust gases that come out of the engine. It would seem a simple task but it does not. Should pay attention to the fact that the exhaust system of exhaust gases is designed to solve several problems. The main problem - it's exhaust system for a board the vehicle. Secondary task - is to ensure optimal filling the air-fuel mixture cylinders of your car. Today, in our age of advanced technology, the phase of registration in the engines of overlaps with the phase of intake when both valves are open. During the exhaust valve to create a negative pressure, through which the exhaust gases will quickly leave the cylinder, thus giving place to the other portions of the air-fuel mixture. When the valve closes the issue, then the manifold pressure drops, and it is the pipe starts its propagation speed of sound. To achieve this, using the inertia of the expiration and non-uniformity of the exhaust gas motor. If an obstruction in the path of this wave, there will be a reflection of its distinguished and calculating the ratio between the distance to the reflection and the motor speed, the wave will appear at the exhaust valve at a time when it opens again. There are many mufflers. Also there is a labyrinth, and through-flow mufflers. Principle of the labyrinth silencer is that it has a separate entrance pipe and a separate output, and a few cells gases move arbitrarily. In the silencer of the ramjet is a perforated pipe both input and output, and it is not interrupted. Gain more power at certain speeds is the main advantage of ram muffler. How do make a forward flow in the domestic environment? It has taken only two pipes, one of which is equal to the diameter tailpipe and the other with a diameter of 20 cm and a length of 1 meter and an old car muffler. Regular old muffler should be removed and dismantled. You must extract all the innards, cutting out the walls. After this, the available pipes must be welded structure: a metal plate weld pipes on each other. Cut a hole in the connection point muffler and pipe. The finished design to put the old muffler and weld on both sides. After that, the whole construction turns heat-insulating plate (suit, injure), and then stainless steel with 5 cm overlap at the ends and 5cm in length. Sheet steel can be purchased at any building market. Sidewall forward flow wrap, roll joints, and welded to the holder ears. Upgraded to install a silencer in place. Performing all these operations do not require huge investments, there is a will! In conclusion I would like to add. The catalytic converter is known to all. This piece is installed in the exhaust system and a cleaner gas. But in the process of the purification catalyst lowers the capacity of the exhaust system and reduces to 10 horsepower output of your engine. Consequently, if the catalyst to remove from the system, it will also significantly improve the dynamics of acceleration and fuel consumption will decrease by about 1 liter per 100 km.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Cell Phone Charger Hazard
This fire resulted from leaving an Iphone charger/docking station plugged into the car outlet. It overheated and started a fire, while parked in our garage. PLEASE unplug anything you have in your car outlets once you turn off your car!
We were VERY fortunate that we accidentally found the fire, at 11pm, before going to bed and before it spread to the house. Feel free to pass this along to anyone you want. Better safe than sorry.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Fiat By Chrysler Chrysler By Fiat
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Challenger SRT 8 Auction Watch The Hitman Cometh Leaveth Questions
A lot of questions and rumors definitely coming to light after this whole experience from different sources that are making claims. Many requests to post pictures and give an explanation of how it went down in the end.
Plan of posting pics and all that good stuff after I work on getting a couple of coats of wax and the right shine. Its only been a few days of driving it around and trying to do the proper break period as it has been suggested.
Been on the board every night reading everyones posts in this thread and jumping around the ChallengerTalk.com board, learning more about the SRT8 and looking at what the proud owners have done to personalize theirs. This board has a lot to offer and maybe I will learn a few things along the way as well.
Sorry, I am really on the edge of calling BS here. (And I know I am an outsider, but still...)
You can take the time to post this dribble, but can not take the time to tell us what went down and what exactly you ended up buying? Also, a brand new car does not need to be waxed to shine.
Forget the pics, just tell the story.
Follow along, beginning with "Hitmans" post last night, here.
By the way, we checked...the SRT-8 in the auction is not in the dealerships online inventory as of this morning.