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Car Engines need some Spring Cleaning too.

Danny Lehrman — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:20:35 +0000

Sweep away winter engine problems

[/caption] As the winter breaks and spring time comes, this is the most opportune time to do some service on your car, truck, RV, or whatever you drive. The winter this year was particularly bad, even in Florida where I live it got close to 30 degrees. That’s [...]

How Foreign and Domestic Engines Fuel Systems Operate

Danny Lehrman — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:25:08 +0000

Automotive Fuel Injection Systems

[/caption] Engine Sensors provide the correct amount of fuel for every operating condition, the car engines engine control unit (ECU) has to monitor a huge number of input sensors. Here are just a few: * Mass airflow sensor * [...]

Fast food is bad for your cars engine too.

Danny Lehrman — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:19:50 +0000

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 [...]

V-8 Engine Blocks Machined From Sold Aluminum.

Danny Lehrman — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:30:37 +0000

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 [...]

What would you do if your foreign car had a domestic engine in it?

Danny Lehrman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:55:26 +0000

What would you do if your foreign car had a domestic engine in it? Would you freak out? Would you even be surprised. I’ll let you in on a little secret about foreign cars and why some of them have domestic engines in them, or vice versa. To tell you the truth, I would be [...]

What happens? 87 octane in an engine that requires 93….

Danny Lehrman — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:40:44 +0000

Octane has nothing to do with power. Gasoline manufacturers add more octane to prevent the premature ignition of the gasoline. In a high performance engine with higher compression, 87 octane will ignite itself from the heat of compression during the compression stroke or from any carbon buildup inside the combustion chamber. The computer will see [...]

Who invented the Internal Combustion Engine?

Danny Lehrman — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:16:44 +0000

Speaking on engines in general, reminds me who got the credit for inventing the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE). Before there was Karl Benz or Henry Ford, there was Nikolaus Otto. The German inventor was the first to produce an efficient working internal combustion engine, others had mild success at internal combustion engine design, but the [...]

Look at the date code before you buy new tires…

Danny Lehrman — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:14:00 +0000

GotEngines.com sells engines of any sort. Rebuilt, used and new. That is our business, to provide you with the correct choice in replacement engines. But, do you really know how old the tires on your car or truck are? The date a tire is manufactured is indicated by the last group of digits in the [...]

And these are the good points of a grease car…

Danny Lehrman — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:50:51 +0000

GotEngines.com continuation post realted to the “Grease Car” post from yesterday 5/5/9: Read reasons # 2 through reason # 5 on why you should spend $$$XXXL on a vegetable oil conversion kit. Greasecar conversion systems are designed for use with filtered vegetable oils only. When buying a vehicle to convert make sure it’s in good condition. If [...]

I’ve got Fords and Shelby Mustangs on my mind today…

Danny Lehrman — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:13:24 +0000

[/caption] Every morning I take my little lover boy Red for a walk.

Red

2008 Mustang GT-500kr

It takes about an hour or less and that is when I think about my blog and what to write about. A new Shelby Mustang drove by me this morning and my thoughts went [...]