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Preparing Your Car for Extreme Cold/Hot Temperatures

Like any piece of machinery, a car needs an extra amount of maintenance and protection during seasons where the temperature spikes or falls drastically. On such occasions, regularly checking your car for damage and necessary replacements such as car seat

How Diesel tuning systems work… (Page 1 of 2)

Traditionally the diesel engine was both slow and noisy, suitable only for tractors, trucks and ships, but the trend in recent years has been for high performance diesels to take a large proportion of the car market away from the

An Introduction to Wide AFR Lambda Tuning

Tuning an engine can be both frustrating, and very rewarding. Sometimes, both of these can happen at the same time. What a lot of people don’t know is that it is no longer ultra-expensive to have the tuning tools to

Engine Knock Detection and Sensing

Beyond normal combustion, there are two main types of abnormal engine combustion that occur beyond the bounds of the spark event that is initiated by the sparkplug in a spark ignition engine. These are Engine Knock and Pre-ignition.Engine Knock –

Building A XS Bobber Out Of A Old Yamaha Xs650

Transformation your YAMAHA XS5650 to a XS BOBBER! The YAMAHA XS650 was launched in 1968 it had one of the most advanced engines in its class of large parallel twin motorcycles. Over a quarter million XS650s in 40 different variations

How To Buy a Used Car

There are so many do’s and don’ts when it comes to buying a used car. In fact you have to take care of a lot more things than you do when getting yourself a brand new car. So be prepared