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| Cars - How They work and what does all the jargon mean? | |||||||||||||||||
| Basics of an engine | |||||||||||||||||
| How to make a car faster | |||||||||||||||||
| BHP, torque and VTEC | |||||||||||||||||
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| Differentials, Oversteer and Understeer | |||||||||||||||||
| Dispelling Car Myths | |||||||||||||||||
| 5) Many people believe they can increase turbo boost with no problems. The problem with this is that if you increase boost for cars that are running on low octane fuel such as the fuel in england then you will cause it to spontaneously combust itself. This gradually destroys the pistons and cylinders and requires an engine-out rebore to fix. You should always know the limitations of your car and yourself as a driver. 6) People who dont have limitations. These people think they can race anyone in any car. I once overheard a guy telling his mates that in his XR2 that he was racing a TVR cerbera. Now firstly why was he trying to race anyone in a jippy XR2 anyway, I will never know but he ended up with his car in the side barriers of a motorway because suprisingly enough he and his car couldnt handle the speed and also couldnt keep up anyway. My advice is this, if you see someone with a don car I suggest you move out of the way before you make a true tit of yourself. Your car cant keep up so dont bother trying, often however: 7) People with don cars like a Porsche 911 Turbo never actually use it properly, instead of thrashing it down the roads they idle around at 65mph on the motorway cruising and showing off their car. Now this for me is a waste if they wanted to cruise they should get a Mercedes S-Class. (N.B. This is MY opinion of SOME porsche drivers and yes i am jealous they have a porsche and i dont) 8) Some people see a car that they never have heard of or seen and assume it is slow and crap. Or just because it is an estate they assume it will be slow. Well sorry but NOPE the Audi RS-4 comes into mind and has 400BHP to bak it up launching it to 60 in 4.8 sec. Beating any RS Turbo jip in sight and will beat them all day with its Pirelli P-Zero tyres. My advice is this if you see the xenon headlights in the rear view mirror, move, it is either a police car or an Audi on a mission. (N.B. I am not implying that adding Pirelli P-zeros to a car makes it faster) 9) Poeple who take aesthetics over Performance. I have always much rather wanted a car that can perform over a car that looks good. Most people in the world are the other way around. I would take an RS-4 over a Porsche Boxter and day. (N.B. Instead should have written I would take a Nissan GTi-R over a BMW Z3, as the boxter has a better chassis) |
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