Cars

  • Coming – Wedge Brakes

    Hydraulic brakes were a huge improvement over the mechanical brakes originally used in motor cars.  Disk brakes replaced drum brakes and braking capacity was further improved.  In the last thirty years ABS has gone from an option on exotic cars… Continue reading

  • The Salt Flats

    A few years back I picked up a Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX.  I spent a half a dozen years working to improve what was a fantastically fun car to the point that I had to bring it to a real road… Continue reading

  • Speed Bumps

    I hate them.  Does anyone really like them?  Do they really do any good? Then there are the “traffic calming humps”.  Tell me, does anyone feel calm after transversing those things? I think the theory is that the humps are… Continue reading

  • Autumn and Your Car

    You’ve turned back your clock, changed out the batteries in your smoke alarms, what should you be doing with your car? How about checking the tires?  Taking a look at the tire pressures and making sure that they are what… Continue reading

  • What Makes a Road Great

    For some people it is a freshly paved stretch of asphalt that is straight as an arrow and flat as a pancake.  They look forward to the speed they can attain without the bother of slowing down for curves or fighting gravity’s… Continue reading

  • Garages Then and Now

    Long before the automobile there were garage-like structures known as barns.  Instead of service stations there were blacksmith shops.  The transportation choices were horses, carriages, and your feet. It was important to protect and maintain your transportation and for some… Continue reading

  • Stealth

    Spirited driving, speeding, scofflaw, or just “Sorry officer, I had no idea”.  How ever you want to describe it there are speed limits and there are drivers that exceed those limits.  Depending upon what road or highway you look at,… Continue reading

  • A Balanced Approach – battery relocation

    Why would you want to move a perfectly good battery out from under the hood to somewhere else in the car? Well, there are a couple of reasons. First of all the environment under the hood subjects your battery to… Continue reading

  • School Buses

    I thought everyone did it.  When you are growing up you think everywhere is the same as what you experience where you are.  How was I to know? My school bus was yellow just like everywhere else, but there was… Continue reading

    School Buses

  • Six Cylinder Engines

    Today we see a lot of cars using a V6 design, in particular many great front wheel drive cars built by Mitsubishi, Acura, Honda, to name a few. There was a time when a six cylinder engine meant an in-line… Continue reading