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5 Weight Savings tips for Performance and Fuel Efficiency by Carlo Morelli In the air travel industry, airlines live and die by their operating costs, a large component of which is their fuel costs. That is why aircraft manufacturers have whole departments whose purpose in life is to track and reduce the weight of the airplanes, ounce by ounce and gram by gram. Auto performance enthusiasts can

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Sports Car Innovators To Remember by Gregg Hall The history of American sports cars is the story not only of machines, but also of the men who made and drove them. There have been many key players in the development of the modern sports car, but some stand out as truly significant figures. Among those innovators to remember are Alexander Winton, Zora Arkus-Duntov, and John DeLorean. Each made a

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Motor Oil: The Lifeblood of Your Car by Craig Kerwood Whether you drive a car, truck, or SUV your motor vehicle is the second biggest investment you'll make in your lifetime. With car prices escalating every year, it makes sense to take good care of your car. Take good care of your car and your car could last 200,000 miles or more. Fail to take care of your car and well, you'll be spending a lot

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A Guide To Saving Gas With Your Vehicle by: Andrew Bernhardt Super-expensive gas is here to stay. Drivers are in a scramble over how to afford their morning commute. They're resorting to a number of solutions, some the result of fuel economy technology in the form of hybrid vehicles, others steering for quick-fix gadgets carrying a high price tag and dubious claims. Don't downgrade from your

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4 Ways To Save Money On Gas by: Chad Klingensmith Can anybody remember the good old days when we could buy gas for less than a buck? Back in roaring 90's we could drive around in our SUVs at little expense. Heck back then I could fill up my 20 gallon tank for less than twenty bucks if I knew where to get cheap gas. It seemed that naive the OPEC and economic recession could help drive you fuel

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Save Money On Gas by: Charlie Bulow You can easily pay 25 to 50 cents less per gallon of fuel, reduce your maintenance costs, have an impact on the environment, and help reduce our dependency on oil producing countries. 1. PRE - TRIP. When approaching your vehicle you can spot numerous things just by looking. Any drips on the ground? How about the tires? Any large cracks in the rubber, is

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Radiator Maintenance by: Katerina Mitrou Maintaining your vehicle is essential if you want to keep it running well and operating at peak performance. The usual maintenance procedures, such as oil changes, are usually not issues for most people – but performing basic maintenance operations to keep your radiator and engine running well are just as important yet more often overlooked. Radiator

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Performance Enhancers For Your Car by: Matthew C. Keegan Tired of your car being outperformed by the compact down the street? Get these four parts and your car will have room to vroom! Are you a tuner? A true tuner that is…or, are you a rice boy? Yeah, you know what I mean. Serious tuners bring out the power in their cars while rice boys slap on every imaginable part to make their car look like

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Import Street Racing Cars by: Matt Garrett There is no other exciting fun in the town than the late night street car racing. You are probably among the street cars racers who are in love with racing and money making. Though street car racing is illegal in countries, but who can stop the fans. Several street car racers dump their old cars and search for new and better racing cars. If you are

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The Buzz of Street Racing by: Danny Wirken What is it about street racing that just drives teenagers and young adults out of their wits? Even the most uninterested person will have to admit that, in some way, speed still provides an exciting rush unparalleled by any human feeling. Why else would there be numerous movies and video games created to tell the story of, or simulate street racing?

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Illegal Street Racing: A Growing Problem by: Peter Johnson It's not an uncommon sight. Two vehicles line-up at a streetlight, one challenges the other, and once the green light appears they take off as fast as they know how. Illegal street racing is not a new thing. It's been going on ever since the days of the Model T Ford. Over the years, speeds have increased and with the advent of cell

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From Fox Sports: AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) - NASCAR is hoping to speed up its switch to unleaded fuel by testing it at selected Busch and Craftsman Truck series races later this season. The racing series has used high-octane leaded fuel for decades, but has been searching for an alternative for years and believes it may be close to a final product with supplier Sunoco. They hope to have it in use at

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From The State: NASCAR team owner Ray Evernham gives us his list of the five technological advances he expects to see in his sport by the turn of the decade: 1. More affordable designing and building of cars. 2. Fuel-injection and unleaded gas or alternative fuel. 3. On-board race monitoring and management. 4. Better cockpit communication, including text messaging. 5. Parts that are more

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(Not specifically written for racing, but still useful advice for becoming a better race car driver.)The Power of Concentration by Steve Gillman (c)2005 If you had the power of concentration whenever you wanted it, imagine how much more productive you could be. Good news! Not only can learn how to concentrate better, but you can do so right now. Concentration Power Is Automatic Start working

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Wide Tires If friction is surface area independent, then why do dragsters have wide tires? ---------------- The force of friction that the tires experience is independent of the tire size, certainly. However, what a dragster does not want is for the tires to slip - so the tires are spinning and the car is going nowhere. What determines when the tires will start to slip is the point at which

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Make a Simple Wind Tunnel EQUIPMENT Piece of furnace pipe about 4 feet long Piece of pliofilm, acetate, or some other transparent material for the tunnel window Separations from an egg carton or similar separators Scotch tape Corrugated box, the same size as the egg-carton separators Small electric fan Book-binding tape or similar adhesive tape 2 small hooks with screw ends, the kind used for

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Make Your Own Wind Tunnel Materials * 3-4 medium-sized cardboard boxes * duct tape * small- to medium-sized scale to measure weight * variable-speed fan Make a wind tunnel out of several boxes taped together with both ends open. The wind tunnel should be large enough that both hands will fit into it easily. Before taping the tunnel together, make one-inch divisions on the floor of the tunnel

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What is it? Alcohol fuels are made from renewable resources like locally grown crops and even waste products such as waste paper or grass and tree trimmings. Methanol and Ethanol are two types of alcohol fuels used in cars. Ethanol can be produced from a variety of renewable resources, most commonly corn and sugarcane. Methanol can be made from renewable resources also, but today, methanol is

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NASCAR uses many things NASA made for space flight. They make racing safer. To keep the astronaut's body cool while walking in space, they wear a cool suit. Cold water moves through tubes in the suit and helmet. This cools the body. Racecar drivers can get too hot, too. They use a type of cool suit. Their suits have holes that help keep heat and sweat away from their bodies. NASA made a foam

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Physiological responses to high-speed, open-wheel racecar driving. Jacobs PL, Olvey SE, Johnson BM, Cohn K. High-speed auto racing has been demonstrated to produce accelerated heart rate (HR) during competition. However, it has not been determined whether the increase in HR was due to physical work efforts or a result of emotional stress. PURPOSE: The purpose of this investigation was to examine

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Liner-Piston Ring Coatings for Advanced Heat Engines Research on advanced heat engine concepts, such as the low-heat-rejection engine, have shown the potential for increased thermal efficiency, reduced emissions, lighter weight, simpler design, and longer life in comparison to current diesel engine designs. A major obstacle in the development of a functional advanced heat engine is overcoming

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