Archive for the 'Performance' Category
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Sometimes, things get a little hot. You’re there with your special lady, you’re trying to round third, when next thing you know, the radiator in her ‘79-’93 Mustang 5.0 starts overheating, and you’ve got to figure out how to get home with only one hand. Flex-A-Lite knows exactly how you feel, and they just […]
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
You do all this work to your car to make it pretty, and next thing you know you’re trying to find a place to mount your nitrous solenoids so they don’t look weird. The original nitrous guys, NOS, have come up with this nifty little deal that bolts into your stock carb flange. It’ll […]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Tuners have been digging the new bodystyle 350Z since its introduction a few years ago — but of course, if you’re a tuner, you want your car to go faster, right? You can make that happen the quick and easy way with a nitrous kit, like this one from Zex. It pushes out an […]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Treadmills in general aren’t interesting, but what if you were to spice up the action with a car, particularly a racecar? That’s how they roll in Concord, N.C. where this super-treadmill helps Nascar engineers to better understand their racing machines in motion.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Chances are pretty good that you’re not a professional Nascar driver — but that doesn’t mean you can’t have all the same cool stuff they do. Edelbrock designed this LS1 intake manifold to have a carb mounted to it, and it’s the only LS1 intake manifold approved for the Nascar Grand National Series […]
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
How do you like horsepower numbers? How about taking your ‘04-’06 Chevy with the 6.6l Duramax diesel engine and adding 124 horses to it? Or maybe you’re more interested in the extra 303 ft-lbs of torque? You get it all with Banks’ new all-in-one Big Hoss kit. It comes with a mammoth intercooler, huge 3″ […]
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Got a Dodge Charger with a Hemi? Then you need the new supercharger kit available from ProCharger. The fully intercooled kit boosts stock power from 40-50% in most cases. Better yet, it’s designed for a simple installation and comes with a three-year warranty. Then, once you get that kit and install it, you should give […]
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Seems like the GM LS-1 is the motor to have right now, and JE Pistons has come through with a cool part for anyone who’s planning on building one up. Available in flat top and inverted dome configurations and for a variety of compression ratios, these pistons are made from a new high-silicon 4032 aluminum […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
TRDparts4u.com is offering a supercharger kit for 97′- 04′ Tacomas and 96′- 02′ 4Runners. The kit adds about 70 HP and 64 ft-lbs of torque to the 3.4L engines, a power upgrade that makes them comparable to the 4.0L V6s and 4.7L V8s that come in newer Tacomas and 4Runners.
Usually, upping the power of an […]
Posted in Supercharging, Toyota, Engine, Trucks, Performance | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Europeans have embraced diesel-powered cars in a big way — which accounts for an average fuel consumption among European cars of 40 mpg. BD Diesel gives us another reason to love diesel: a power module that plugs into the ECM (Emissions Control Module) of 1998-2006 VWs with the 1.9L TDI engine. The power module […]
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