Check out actor Robert Patrick's intense command to start engines

Actor Robert Patrick gave the command to start engines prior to Sunday's race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and it was awesome.

(Actor Robert Patrick gives drivers the command to start engines prior to the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.)

Actor Robert Patrick isn't exactly the shy and retiring type. That much is obvious from his appearances in films like "Terminator 2," "Die Hard 2," "Wayne's World," "Walk the Line" and "Flags of our Fathers" or small-screen roles on "The X-Files" and "Sons of Anarchy."

Patrick, who was born in Marietta, Georgia, was the Grand Marshal for Sunday's Folds of Honor QuickTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. And when he gave the command to start engines, everyone at the track heard it.

It was a loud note, for sure, but the right one to start a 500-mile race with.


Source : foxsports.com

Hydraulic handbrake and line packages SPEC YOUR SETUP AS ONE EASY BUNDLE

A complete handbrake solution for most cars used in drifting (Nissan 200sx/Skyline, BMW E36 etc...) Our lines use 7/16 in, 3/8 out cylinder fittings and M10x1 brake line fittings. Choose from a handbrake with a quality Wilwood master cylinder, flexi lines and upgraded stainless handle.You'll need both input AND output lines to plumb in your handbrake, the kit replaces your rear brake line, with the handbrake in the middle. There is a locking mechanism, but this is NOT to be used as a parking brake. It's for short periods of time only, for example waiting at a starting line.

Hydraulic handbrake - steel handbrake with alloy handle, quality Wilwood 0.625 master cylinder. Can be changed between vertical and horizontal.

Input and output lines - quality steel braided flexi lines, with fittings needed to attach to our handbrake and to your cars master cylinder/abs pump and T-piece. Available in orange and black.

Upgraded stainless handle - for setups where mounting the hydraulic handbrake dead straight isn't possible, or for people that really like to wail on the handbrake! Extra long for custom setups, we've made it the same size as BMX bike grips and it can be cut to length.

Plumbing the handbrake in is easy, if just replaces the rear brake line as shown in this diagram:




Source : driftworks.com

How To Make a Non Turbo Charged Car Faster

If your wanting to make a non turbo charged car more faster and increase it's performance, then you can make that happen, by apply the following mods below:

1) Install a cold air intake because it will help bring down the temperature of the air, which is going into the car's engine. Cooler air, will allow the engine to increase in more power, of the internal combustion engine. Adding a cold air intake to your car's engine, is a affordable upgrade and is cheap solution towards gaining more torque and horsepower.

2) Get a ecu remap because it will tweak out and optimise the car's performance slightly on a petrol car, although a remap on a diesel car, will have more potential. Ecu remapping involves a laptop and a special cable that is connected to the ecu unit. Then the old software map is removed and the new tweaked out software remap, gets installed on the ecu unit.

3) Remove your car's stock exhaust system and replace with a aftermarket performance exhaust system. There are many decent brand that make good quality and nice sounding exhaust system, from brands such as Miltek, Apexi and Hks, that i am aware of.

4) Add a nitrous oxide kit to your car, will add insane power, only when you engage the button, that activates the nitrous oxide system. Most countries with laws, claim that you should only use this for off road use and not on the public road.




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No, this isn't the 2020 Ford Bronco. But it should be.

Ford hasn't said that it is going to resurrect the Bronco. However, that hasn't stopped the creative minds at Bronco6G from imagining what the sixth-generation Bronco might look like.

Starting with the 2004 Bronco Concept that Ford produced, they added on some classic Bronco designs, including the round headlights and square metal grille. Then they added some elements from the current Ford truck line. After all, this couldn't be a complete outlier if it is intended for modern production.

To give it additional flare, they played with traditional grille inserts, including either the Ford blue oval or the Bronco moniker spelled out in glaring boxy letters. While I could see a resurrected Bronco design going either way, I am hoping for a more classic-looking car than a brash, in-your-face 4x4.

Regardless of how it might look, underneath Bronco6G insists it's a "no-frills design with a strong focus on utility and off-road capabilities." Sounds good to me.

If Ford were to bring back the Bronco, it'd compete with the Jeep Wrangler. While a Bronco might not fit into Ford's new "one Ford" global plan of offering the same vehicles around the world, or with its efficiency goals, it would sell well at least here in the U.S. for a few years.

After all, gas is cheap and big SUVs are back.

Source : mashable.com

How to Tune a Car

Today during conversation or on TV, in newspapers, etc. you can often read or hear words “car tuning”. What is tuning a car? Tuning is the modification of vehicle characteristics that improves its performance. Or it can be some design modification that changes the vehicle's look. You can easily determine tuning cars in the street because they usually don't look like ordinary cars. First of all these vehicles are allocated because their appearance has different unusual colors, chrome trim, extra large rims or some additional body modifications, etc. The other kind of car modifications (tuning) is improvement of car parts under the hood. This type of tuning cars is easy to determine too because of the sounds vehicle makes (it is much different from the ordinary car sound) or extra speed gains.

So, how to tune a car? There are a lot of ways to do it. First of all, you should decide what exactly you want to modify. For example, it can be car engine tuning or some additional parts setting car body modification (spoiler, bumper, etc.). You should think carefully before performing any modifications, because tuning your car is a serious process, that may extremely change you car characteristics. Especially if tuning modifies the engine of the vehicle. Engine performance tuning usually lets your car accelerate faster than usually, so you should pay more attention to safety because enhanced performance may put more stress on the breaking and suspension systems.



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Renault's Alpine Vision concept is proof that you always want what you can't have

That's right, this gorgeous piece of French sheetmetal is one that we'll likely never get our hands on. But that doesn't make us want it any less.

Meet the Alpine Vision Concept, a close preview of what's to come from Renault's revival of the defunct French sports car brand. Back in the late 1960s and early 70s, Alpine was essentially a household name in the world of motorsport, winning everything from the 24 Hours of Le Mans to the World Rally Championship, but the car that started it all was the gorgeous A110 coupe.

The brand has been defunct since the 1990s, but Renault is bringing it back in full force, with a plan to have a complete lineup of premium sports cars to take on the likes of Porsche, Aston Martin, and more.

(With a mid-mounted turbocharged 4-cylinder expected to push the car along to 60-mph in 4.5-seconds, the Alpine Vision is ripe to take on the likes of Porsche and Alfa Romeo.)

The Vision Concept, an unashamed throwback to the original Alpine, is their first entry, and with a turbocharged four-cylinder mounted midship, it'll have the weight balance to take on the Porsche Cayman and Alfa Romeo 4C.

(The Vision Concept, or whatever it is eventually named, is set to go on sale in 5 continents. Whether North America is among them is yet to be seen, but we're hopeful.)

Alpine claim that the Vision will hit 60-mph in just 4.5-seconds, with the potential for even hotter variants to push the envelope further. We're not sure just yet what the top speed will be, or even what the transmission setup is, but make no mistake that this thing will go every bit as good as it looks.

The Vision's launch is scheduled for later this year in Europe, and while the company states that the markets will expand from there to reach "five continents," it's highly unlikely we'll see it on our shores. French brands have never fared well in the U.S., but perhaps a gorgeous sports car is just the thing to change the tide.


Wouldn't you say so, Renault?




Source : nydailynews.com

Yep, the New Lexus Coupe Will Get a Hybrid Model: the LC500h

Whenever there’s a new Lexus model on the way, odds are pretty good that there will be a hybrid version. In the case of the LC500, the new flagship coupe unveiled last month, that’s true once again, as Lexus has just announced the LC500h.

     Lexus already offers hybrid versions of six other models: the NX, RX, ES, GS, LS, and the hybrid-only CT200h.

As of yet, there’s little word from Lexus about the new LC hybrid, other than the fact that it will exist. Lexus is saying only that the LC500h will feature the company’s “next-generation hybrid powertrain, the Lexus Multi-Stage Hybrid System.” It remains to be seen whether that’s something all-new, or an evolution of the hybrid system in one of its current models. If it’s the latter, it could be a version of the system in the GS450h, which utilizes a 3.5-liter Atkinson-cycle V-6 and a pair of electric motors to produce a combined 338 horsepower, or it could be derived instead from the LS600hL powertrain, in which the engine is 5.0-liter V-8 and total system output is 438 horsepower.

The standard, non-hybrid LC500 features a 5.0-liter V-8 good for 467 horsepower, funneled through a 10-speed automatic an on to the rear wheels. The seventh member of the Lexus hybrid family will make its debut next month at the Geneva auto show.

Source : http://blog.caranddriver.com