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Check Out Tim Allen’s Entire Car Collection Right Here. Wow This Dude Has Some Cool Stuff.

Apr 08, 2021CAR FEATURES, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos

Check Out Tim Allen’s Entire Car Collection Right Here. Wow This Dude Has Some Cool Stuff.

I’ve been fortunate enough to see some amazing car collections in person, including some that we aren’t even allowed to talk about, but whenever you get the chance to see a collection like Tim Allen’s you know it is something special. He and Jay Leno have been friends for a long time, and their shops aren’t that far away from each other in Southern California. Both are fairly regular attendees at the Bob’s Big Boy cruise night in Taluca Lake, and Tim is known to show up with the family for burgers while checking out the hot rods. In this tour by the Petersen Automotive Museum folks, you’ll get a tour from Tim himself at his collection.

Here is Part One and Part Two of the walk through of his collection with information on each and every car in the building. What’s funny are the cars that Tim can’t stand buy keeps because his wife adores them. LOL I also like the fact that some of these he’s had for so long that he can’t even remember some of the details and you don’t really car because it is Tim talking about them. Check out the video, enjoy the cars, and dream about having some of them yourself.

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The Toyota Man Cometh: This Review Of The 1993 Toyota T100 Was A Wildly Prescient Look Into The Future

Dec 30, 2020BangShift News, BangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Truck News, XL Videos

The Toyota Man Cometh: This Review Of The 1993 Toyota T100 Was A Wildly Prescient Look Into The Future

It was monumental news when Toyota said that it was going to step up its truck game in the early 1990s with the addition of the T100 model. This was going to be a small-ish truck that was kind of in its own size class. They had done their marketing studies and determined not only what their own loyal Toyota buyers wanted but also what many people who were intimidated by larger trucks wanted to buy.

Their answer was the T100 which was first sold here in 1993. This MotorWeek review is pretty good because it really shows the truck in an honest light. It was “lesser-than” the half ton trucks and even had some short comings when compared to rigs like the Dakota and others. It was short on power, it was pretty slow, and the interior was cramped, but what it did and what they correctly recognized it as doing was to lay the foundation for Toyota’s truck expansion and while that expansion took years and years, it was the long game that ultimately paid off with the Tundra which has been a success for the company.

The neatest part of this video is the end where they basically read the tea leaves of what Toyota is going to do regarding larger trucks in the US market. They debuted the Tundra about 5 years after this truck hit the market and it had V8 power, larger size, and has been sold now for two decades. The Tundra did not harm the Detroit companies in ways that may feared. Lots of Tundras, like T100s find buyers who are already Toyota loyalists and want a truck that it’s “too much” for their tastes.

The T100 really started the whole process.

Press play below to see this interesting review of the 1993 Toyota T100 –

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Nasty Video: Check Out The Wreckage Left Behind After This Rotary Powered Hot Rod Suffered And 8,000 RPM Clutch Explosion

Nov 09, 20201320 Videos, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, CRASH & BURN, ENGINES, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Nasty Video: Check Out The Wreckage Left Behind After This Rotary Powered Hot Rod Suffered And 8,000 RPM Clutch Explosion

There is so much energy stored in various parts of our cars sometimes it can be scary. We see incredible things happen with engines that burn nitromethane fuel and those that are built to tackle hardcore accomplishments in motorsports, but even the stuff we hot rod ourselves is sometimes more powerful than we can imagine. Take this video for example. There’s a guy in Australia with a hot rodded 13b rotary engine who was out just having fun with his friends at a rotary event and at over 8,000 RPM (not too much for these guys) the clutch blew apart and it did a tremendous amount of damage to this poor guy’s car.

There are two videos here. They are in order. The dude is correct when he says that he is lucky that he still has  his feet because when you see the holes the clutch parts tore through the subframe and body of the car, you can only imagine what it would have done to his human parts.

The bell housing of the transmission is completely vaporized and the damage goes beyond the merely external. Whole components like the clutch linkage were blown off, the brakes compromised, and the list goes on and on. The flywheel itself seems OK it was the clutch disc that did all this.

Wild stuff. Blow-proof bell housings, even on stuff that isn’t insanely powerful are never a bad idea.

Press play to see the wreckage left after this 13b suffered a clutch explosion

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Turbos, Superchargers and Electric Super Chargers, What’s The Difference?

Turbos, Superchargers and Electric Superchargers, all three of them are coupled with an engine to increase the net output of your car’s engine.

While all three of them do the same job, of pushing more air into the cylinders, they differ from each other in terms of the source of their power. Due to this slight change, all three of them have their own specific attributes and drawbacks.

Turbocharger

Turbochargers push more air into the engine with help of a compressor, which is powered by a turbine, which is run from the exhaust gases of an engine.

From a thermodynamic point of view, this system provides a power increment, much efficiently than the rest. As the exhaust gases which were going to be expelled, are now being used to shove more air into your car’s engine. Turbochargers allows manufacturer to make much more power out of a smaller engine. It helps in basically downsizing the engines which reduces the amount of reciprocating mass in the car making them efficient to drive.

Turbochargers come with a major drawback of Turbo Lag. Turbo lag can be stated as the delay from the point in time the throttle has been pressed to the point when the power is delivered in a turbo charged setup. Just because Turbocharger relies on exhaust gases, the engine needs to build up a threshold pressure at the exhaust to start the Turbocharger. And finally when exhaust gases spool up the Turbocharger, it brings in more air and the power gains become exponential. So when throttle is pressed this process takes a bit time to initiate and then chains up to provide the output.

Engines with a Turbocharger tend to complete their engine oil life earlier than the rest. As turbocharger also needs an oil supply right from the engine.

Supercharger

Superchargers shove in more air into the cylinder with a help of a compressor, which is directly connected with the engine. A Super charger is connected with the engine, through a belt, a chain or gears mostly.

Supercharger do not have any turbo lags and are almost like naturally aspirated engines in terms of the pedal response. You mostly get a flat increase in power along the rpms by adding a Supercharger to your engine. 

Supercharger tend to be inefficient as compared to the turbochargers, as they take power from the engine to provide more air which produces more power.

Electric SuperchargerElectric powered compressor (EPC)

Electric Superchargers are not deployed on their own in a setup. They are usually coupled with a turbo charger or two. As turbo chargers tend to be sluggish in the lower rpms, Electric superchargers comes into play in this range. It provides instant boost with the help of a compressor, powered by an electric motor. These electric motors need a high wattage 48 Volts DC battery to run them. The 48 Volts battery is then charged by a separate generator connected with the engine.

This configuration stands in between the Turbochargers and the Superchargers in terms of efficiency. But their response times are better just like the Supercharged or naturally aspirated engines. An Electric supercharger coupled with a Turbocharger provides power gains all across the rpm range.

An Electric Supercharger along with a Turbocharger can be tricky to install and initiate. The need to be calibrated for the right rpm ranges to operate to perform to their maximum potential.

Will Adding a Spoiler Even Effect Your Project Cars Performance?

A car needs to be well balanced to perform properly on a track. Spoilers were introduced to provide downforce in a car to improve their handling and to avoid them from taking off at very high speeds.

So to decide whether you will be needing a spoiler, depends mainly on your use case and your cars limits.

Generally spoilers are also added onto exotic sedans just to add up to the looks of it. It doesn’t do any good in managing the aerodynamics of the car or for providing any downforce. Adding a beefier spoiler to your family sedan can just result in increased drag that can result in even worse fuel economy. But manufacturers also consider adding them in some of their sedans at sports trim, just to make it look racing oriented, and to improve the aesthetics.

A Spoilers role comes into play at high speeds at about 150 to 300+ kmph. A car generates an amount of lift too at high speed, so to restrain it from taking off at high speed, Spoilers provide sufficient downforce to keep the car pushed on to the road. Spoilers are deployed to provide the car, an added normal force, which increases the frictional force between all for tires, that can help it steer into sharp corners at even higher speeds.

Spoilers are considered unnecessary in front wheel drive vehicles, but it also plays a major role in them. A car without any spoilers, generates greater downforce at the front end, just due to the geometry of bonnet, fenders and windscreen. It helps bring the car’s Centre of Pressure i.e. the effective point of action of downforce, to the middle of the car’s body. This prevents car from oversteering in corners at high speeds.

Spoilers also help in providing improved braking at high speeds just due to the additional downforce at the rear end. Generally when brakes are applied, a cars momentum is shifted towards the front end, but a spoiler can allow increased braking at the rear end, to ensure stability and shorter breaking distances.

If your project car has the potential to reach high speeds such as around 250kmph and other components such as its suspension, braking and tires can keep up with the car at such high speeds. You can add a well-engineered spoiler to it, to get extra stability at higher speeds specially on tracks.

But if your car’s components aren’t meant to withstand highspeed maneuvering then it will be needing a lot of other upgrades before thinking of attaching a working spoiler at it. Also you can add a considerable spoiler that matches your sedans look just to give it a sporty look if you’re into that kind of thing.