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March 10th, 2010

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Don't get the Blues from broken windshield wipers..

[/caption] Although we sell engines and other related automotive parts, I have an unrelated winter time tip for you. Since we just spent 411.00 dollars on the repair, you may be interested in what happened and why. My moms car is a [...]
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How Automotive Engines Fuel Injectors Operate.

March 5th, 2010

Automobile Engine Fuel Injector

[/caption] For most of the life of the internal combustion engine, the carburetor has been the piece of equipment that supplied fuel to the engine. On many other machines, such as lawnmowers and chainsaws, it still is. But as automobile engines evolved, the carburetor got more and more complicated [...]
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Fast food is bad for your cars engine too.

February 27th, 2010

Change your engines oil

[/caption] When I passed McDonald’s the other day the line for the drive through was about 20 cars long. Well I was going to Subway to get a $5.00 foot-long. What struck me was here, all these folks are sitting in line for [...]
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V-8 Engine Blocks Machined From Sold Aluminum.

January 26th, 2010
This video represents the amazing process of machining an engine block out of one sold piece of aluminum, the V8 Engine Block is Machined on a Matsuura 5 axis MAM72-63V CNC state of the art Machine Tool. CNC is an acronym for ”computer numerically controlled”. This means that once a lathe specialist programs the computer [...]
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Engine News: Sand Cast Aluminum Engine Blocks Save Gas.

January 25th, 2010
Check this out. These men are going through the tedious process of making a sand cast – aluminum 1937 Ford Sedan engine block. Try to listen to them talk as you watch. Although the process of making a cast aluminum engine block, cylinder heads or anything that is cast aluminum is more streamlined and efficient, [...]
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Engine News: Cars with Electric Motors.

January 11th, 2010
Before gasoline engines became our standard source of power, plenty of experimentation with hybrid vehicles was going on, pretty much unknown at the time, with electric powered engines. The first move toward a hybrid vehicle is believed to be in 1665, when Ferdinand Verbiest, a Jesuit priest, began work on plans for a simple [...]
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Engine News: 2010 Popular Engine & Car Features.

January 5th, 2010
Of the top top 8 new features that really distinguished themselves to me as the most popular new features produced, starting in the second decade of this century, two are direct engine upgrades to make more power in small fuel efficient engines. One is for the transmissions, adding an extra speed for lower engine revolutions [...]
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What About Engine Installation Kits for Rebuilt or Used Engines?

January 2nd, 2010

Buy Engines and Motors

[/caption] One of the first pieces of advice I have for people who have to locate a replacement engine and swap it out in their vehicle is to check the surrounding components that help support the operation of your replacement engine. These components involve the cooling [...]
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Engine News and Tips: Used Engine oil.

December 31st, 2009
Here is a subject not well known about, long before it became widespread practice to recycle paper, plastics and other waste stream commodities, oil out of used car engines was recycled to recover its innate heating value. Even though it’s dirty and exhausted of lubricity, a gallon of used oil contains 140,000 BTUs of [...]
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Engine News: Gasoline and Diesel Engines for Sale.

December 10th, 2009
With the introduction of hybrid vehicles, which use both electric motors and gas engines to power them, and fully electric cars, which are expected to debut in 2010 or 2011, most people will be surprised once they read the following automotive trivia. Between 1832 and 1839 (the exact year was not very exact), Robert Anderson of [...]
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