What Is A Turbocharger

A turbocharger is an air compressor which sucks air in and squishes it up. This compressed air will carry more oxygen so you would be able to burn more fuel.
The fuel and air mixture in an engine is vital and you can only run an engine when this ratio is correct.
Early pilots, especially in wartime needed more altitude and more speed. The issue was that the higher you went the slower the engine ran, and if you went too high the engine would stall completely. Early aeroplane engines were fuelled by petrol or ethanol and have a lot in common with the modern automotive engine. With aeroplane engines the problem was getting enough air into them at high altitude where the air is thinner and contains less oxygen. A way to compress the air was conceived. source on turbo history
The turbo has two turbines connected by a spindle. On one site it is spun by the flow of exhaust gases and this in turn rotates the other side, the compression part. This enables an engine to produce far more power and work in extreme environments. Read More: TopCarsPicks.com

2016 FORD MUSTANG SHELBY GT350R

Like the Ford Mustang, our Customizer is new from the ground up. The only limit? Your imagination.

• 3-D rendering allows you to customize from any angle
• Nearly endless custom colors and options
• Create a profile and save dozens of cars
• Share your creation with your social networks
• Future updates: racing game and more parts
• Download the app on your handheld device to customize anywhere

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2018 Porsche Mission E

The sleek mid-size four-door Porsche Mission E sedan concept looks as much like an elongated Porsche 911 sports coupe as it does the hump-backed Panamera Read More: TopCarsPicks.com

The Jaguar F-TYPE

The Jaguar F-TYPE range is engineered for high performance and responsive handling. Following its legendary predecessors, the F-TYPE delivers an exhilaratingly instinctive driving experience. Read More :TopCarsPicks.com

2016 Infiniti QX 80

Infiniti QX 80is commanding luxury immerse yourself in a sophisticated interior crafted to anticipate your needs and desires. Read More: TopCarsPicks.com

2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV

An all-electric vehicle offering an estimated more than 200 miles of range per charge for an affordable price is how we define it. Read More: TopCarsPicks.com

1969 McLaren M6GT Car Images

1969 McLaren M6GT Car Images

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Mirrow Provocator is a Super Tiny City Car

Every new car company seemingly wants to transform the automotive landscape. Mirrow is the latest in a long line of forward-thinking business ventures, and the pint-sized Provocator hopes to be the perfect vehicle for city dwellers looking for a bit more than the average Smart ForTwo, but not looking to fight for a parking space big enough for an SUV. Read More :TopCarsPicks.com

 

New 2016 Toyota Prius

The 2016 Toyota Prius is here with a striking new look that will shake up the status quo. Its sleek shape has been engineered to cheat the wind and win over the crowd. Stylish front and rear LED lighting helps this hybrid make a powerful statement. Read More: TopCarsPicks.com

 

The Pump Police

Sorry, sometimes you don’t get what pay for.  Take gasoline, for example, when you go to a station and pay for 10 gallons of gas, do you get exactly 10 gallons?  Well, you are supposed to; that’s why all of the individual states have pump inspectors,“the Pump Police,” that periodically check the accuracy of the states’s gas pumps. We asked guys at BMW of OysterBay, NY, a factory-authorized BMW dealer, if the pump police ever find cheaters.
Well, in Michigan, they told us,one station near Detroit was accused of shorting its unsuspecting customers by as much as $100,000 in a year’s time.  The inspectors quickly went to work and shut down the station.  The owner, who pleaded guilty to intentionally “short measuring” (a felony), was ordered to pay a $55,000 fine and put on probation for 18 months. So it happens.

What do pump police do

In the state of Michigan, the pump police are 14 motor-fuelenforcement specialists employed by the state’s Department of Agriculture. They have the task of keeping tabs on the 13 million gallons of gas pumped every day in the state. They deal with two sets of laws.  First, the Fast Track scam near Detroit was a violation of national pump-accuracy laws, called “weights and measures.”.  Second, there are quality regulations concerning the properties of gasoline. The two most common ones are octane rating and water content. Read More: TopCarsPicks.com

Poor Credit Loans

Not everyone has excellent credit. Fortunately there are lenders out there that understand this and offer credit terms to those with less than stellar credit history. It’s simply a different type of loan to them and no emotions are attached.  In this article, we will go through what you should know if your credit history isn’t great. The situation isn’t so bad.
The first thing you will find is that many lenders specializingin poor credit loans want to sell you a new car. We know this is counter-intuitive, wouldn’t a used car make more sense?  Not reallyBrown’s Alpha Romeo of Patchogue, NY tells us. From the lender’s perspective, a new car has more value and therefore offers more money that can be reclaimed if the buyer defaults on the loan. The lender also has the assurance that a new-car buyer will actually keep up with payments because there shouldn’t be any “surprise” car repair expenses.
If you want to buy a new car soon yet have marginal credit, it’s not a bad idea to start planning for the purchase.Start by pulling your credit report to see how it would look to a lender.  You can get free credit reports from a number of online companies. www.creditkarma.com is one of the big ones and they give you one free report a year on each of the three major credit reporting agencies. Read More: TopCarsPicks.com

Complete Guide to Powder Coating

If you  are building or restoring a car, you have three choices for refinishing the various parts involved: painting, plating, or powdercoating. Powdercoating may seem new and cutting edge but it’s actually been around for over 40 years. Once used just for industrial equipment, today it’s become a very popular option for getting a durable and good-looking finish on car parts.

How powercoating works

As the name implies, powdercoating is a coating initially applied as a powder, as opposed to traditional paint, which is a pigment suspended in a solvent. Thepowders used are made up of epoxy, polyester, and acrylic resins.  There is some impressive chemistry involved, but in short, colored dust is stuck to a metal base and melted to form a coating.As the colored dust passes through the paint gun, it’s given a low-voltage electrostatic charge. The part being painted are given a negative charge so the positively-charged colored dust particles are attracted to the metal surface where they cling on like magnets do.
How thick the powder coats the surface of the metal depends on the how much voltage is used on the system. At some point the powder thickness inhibits more particles from sticking, which is why it’s self-leveling. Once the powder is on the part, it’s baked in an oven (typically between 350 and 400 degrees F) where the powder coating chemically reacts to produce long, rugged molecular chains.  The result is a finish that is much harder and chemical resistant than traditional paint. Read More :TopCarsPicks.com

Henry Ford Built Airplanes Too

Yes, Ford Corporation was involved in the building of aircraft as well as automobiles. Ford’s aircraft division never grew into anything substantial like Boeing or Lockheed did, but for a number of years, they made some pretty good aircraft. The models they built were referred to asthe Ford Tri-Motors.

The history involved

During the 1920s, the name Henry Ford was magic, for it identified the man who had given transportation to America in the form of the 15 million affordable Model Ts cars and trucks. It seemed a natural thing for the company to consider building aircraft and Henry Ford agreed.
William B. Stout, a famous designer who worked at several Detroit automobile companies was the man behind the Ford Tri-Motor. In the early 1920s, he had come to Ford to help the company with its Model T production, which was undergoing explosive demand. He eventually became close to Henry Ford and his son Edsel and got them interested in aviation.  They soon put him in charge of a group that was tasked to build the Ford Corporation’s first airplane: the Tri-MotorModel 3-AT. Read More: TopCarsPicks.com

 

The New Waterborne Paints – Nothing to Be Afraid Of

A few years ago, the automotive repair industry was up in arms about the imminent change from solvent-based paints to water-based paints.  Californians, where it was mandatory, were quite upset. Everyone was worried that this shift in paint technology was being driven primarily by “green” philosophies and it would cause a major problem for the country’s body shops and repair facilities.  Fortunately, the paranoia was unfounded.  The manager of the body shop at Kindle of Cape May Court House, NJ, a factory authorized Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram dealer explained to us that the waterborne paints ended up being were just as good as the solvent-based paints that everyone has been using. Read More: TopCarsPicks.com

Blast Your Car Parts Clean

It’s often a good idea to clean all the rust and old paint off an auto part before you paint it. In the old days, one would use a “sand blaster” to expose the raw base material under all the junk covering it. Today a similar technique is used but it referred to as “media blasting.” According to our friends at Lee Chrysler of Wilson, NC, a Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, Ram dealer, this is because sand isn’t used much anymore due to the health risks of inhaling silica particles.

What you can clean via media blasting

Media blasting is especially good for cleaning the rust off of metal parts and has been used for decades to do just that. Today you can even clean up plastic, wood and other materials with a media blaster. As you probably imagine, a media blaster is a handyman’s dream.

How they work

Consumer media blasters use pressurized air to shoot tiny pieces of material (media) out of a nozzle to strip off the surface covering off a part. It’s sort of like pressure washing, only at lower pressures and it doesn’t use water, it uses air. The most commonly used media include glass beads, plastic beads, ground-up walnut shells, and aluminum oxide. Read More: TopCarsPicks.com