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CAR ACCESSORIES, SPARE PARTS AND TOOLS
Welcome to this presentation of some good online shops where you can find car equipment and spare parts for affordable prizes, and an exhibition of a few of the products. Please click at the banner for the most appropriate shop to search for exactly that item you are looking for. Further down there is also some information about electric cars, about Wankel engines and about car layouts.
Spare parts, equipment and tools for your car - All types of quality equipent for every car fabricate and model: Exterior, interior, styling, transmission, stearing, wheels, electric system, radio, fuel system, motor, trimming and performance parts, driving computer, navigation, seats, doors, locks, glasses, brakes, suspention, exhaust system, driving security, computer system, telephone and comunication, and much more.
Internal and external car equipment, car electronics, GPS navigation - By clicking at the banner below, you will find a great collection of accessories for your car, like lanterns, antennas, auto radio / stereo / music, communication electronics, security equipment, GPS nevigation equipment, dashboard equipment, car body parts, washers, window accessories, interior styling, bags, tool boxes, interior lights, seat equipment and more. You also find workshop tools and parts for higher car performance and higher class functions.
Comodities for your use in your cars or on journeys - By clicking at the banner below, you will find a great collection of comodities for your car, or comodities to bring with you on tours, lke tools, lanterns, Auto radio / stereo / music, communication electronics, security equipment, nevigation equipment, interior commodities, bags, seat equipment and more. There are also repair parts and performance parts.
You also find every kind of tools you need to work on your car: Mechanical tools, electric adjustments instruments, mechanical diagnostic equipment, electric diagnostic equipment, styling tools, painting equipment and more. Examples:
4Wheel Parts - Parts for offroad vehicles and equipment for offroad use
- This is a great store of offroad equipment. Here are presented links to some of the products. If you want to browse the whole store to look at more products, you can click at any of the links.
Warn Power Pivot
MasterCraft Safety Baja RS Reclining Seat with Seat Heater and Adjustable Lumbar by MasterCraft® 5080086006
Toyo Proxes S/T Tire
Warn 4X4 Flares Fender Flare
Security products for vehicles, homes and workplaces
- This is a general store of suraillance and security products for vehicles and all other areas. Here you can find everyting you need for allarm and surveillance of cars and garages and all things the driver of a car needs to keep himself or herself secure for dangers that are luring.
Please scroll down to see some advanced security deices exhibited
Superstore with car workshop tools, GPS navigators and much more
- This is a general warehouse with a lot of car items, and especially care electronics.
Product examples from the shops presented above
SOME OTHER ITEMS
RC helicopters, airplanes, cars, electronic sets, chemistry sets, airsoft guns and other hobby items
Vitamins. minerals, anti-oxidants, glyconutrients, noni, acai mangosteen and other supplements
Products against erection problems or to improve male and female sexual, please click here
roducts to help for specific common diseases, pleace click hereSkincare, natural drugs for skin problems, quality cosmetics, anti-aging products, fashion
Information resources for our visitors - Here is an article about electric cars, and one about drive layout structure and consepts. To find other information resources, please go to this page
About electric cars
Electric cars have been around for a very long time, but the use of such cars have yet not taken off due to difficulty with storing large amounts of energy in batteries and due to long loading time.
Electric cars have certain advanages.
They are for example not polluting the near surroundings. These advantages go away in a larger scale or even reversed, however, it the electricity is produced in oil heated or worse, coal-heated power plants. Therefore this advanage is only real when the electricity is produced in hydro-electric power planst, by solar cell panels or by wind power.
Electric cars have an echonomical advantage at places where energy from electrcity is cheaper than petrol or diesel carried energy. This advantage is even stronger for farmers and housholds that produce their own electrcity by wind-power or by solar cell panels.
They have a great security advantage it that they do not carry combustible fuel.
The battery techology is gradually improving and the storage capacity will gradually approach that of combustion engine driven vehicles.
The disadvantage that is expected to ramain is slow loading time. It will never be possible to load an electric car in the same time that one ca load a combustion fuel driven car, without some very special techiques where the whole battery is shifted with a fully loaded one with some automatic device at the loading station.
The battery technology is not so environmentally friendly either, since batteries conatin poisonous substanses like cadmium.
In areas where electricity is produced environmentally friendly, electric cars will also get a strong competitor, namely hydrogen driven cars. The electrcity can be used to make hydrogen and hydrogen can easily be loaded like petrole or diesel. Hydrogen carries however a fire safety risk, like other combustible fuels.
One might wonder if electric cars will be commonly used like perol driven cars and diesel driven cars.
They will definitely be the best solution for users that have a cheap source of electricity or have a more easy eccess to electricty that combustible fuel and for whome long loading time is not any problem.
Those users will howver worldwide be only some percent of the total numbers of car owners. Therefore cars driven by electric montors and loaded by electricity will only have a certain share of the market.
Electric motors can however be used in cars in other smart ways. It is for example possible to have electric motors integrated in the wheels.
Such a system avoids complicated mechanic transmissions and posible also avoids a gearbox, and makes the total layout of the car simpler.
By a smart controle of the motor power in each wheel, dynamic traction controle of various kind for driving safety and to maximize grip can easily be achieved.
By such a traction system the electricity can come from a battery or a combustion engine can drive a generator that makes electricity for those motors.
In such a layout, electric cars and cars powered by combustion engines can be constructed with the same basic layout, an only different energy sources can be set in.
About Wankel motors
A Wankel engine (also called rotary engine) is a gasoline engine designed by the German engineer Felix Wankel in the 1950s.
In a conventional piston engine makes the pistons in the cylinders four different tasks after one another - intake, compression, combustion and exhaust. I
In a Wankel engine a rotating triangle placed in the motor block makes these
four tasks at once. The rotation is transferred to a gear that sits on the drive
axle in the middle of the block and which the triagle is rotating around.
Wankel engine was used by NSU in the car NSU Spider from 1964 - and later in the
NSU Ro 80 - but due to technical problems it was not a success. Mazda still uses
the engine in sports cars such as Mazda RX-7 and Mazda RX-8.
Benefits
The Wankel engine has only two moving parts. Therefore it needs little
maintainance. The triangle in a Wankel engine moves more continuously (not
accelerated as much back and forth) as pistons in reciprocating engines,
which allows Wankel engine to withstand extremely high speeds, often up to 13
000 revolutions per minute.
Power = torque * rpm. So Wankel engine can provide a lot of power in relation to
stroke volume, particularly weight.
Disadvantages
The wankel engine of geometrical reasons not have as high compression as gasoline engines. It therefore provides lower torque and consequently lower efficiency than other gasoline engines.
Every corner of the triangle must have contact with the walls to separate the three volumes that are between the walls and each edge of the triangle. At these contacts will make friction and it is therefore mounted a spring-loaded "Apex" metal that can be replaced when worn. This was, and remains the Wankel engine's biggest problem. Because of this, the Wankel engines have shorter life than piston engines. Maintenance is however easier
A Wankel engine from Mazda ( A free to copy picture from wikipedia.org)
Understanding the Drive Layouts
By: Alvin Agomaa
The drive layout is the
arrangement of the engine, transmission, and driven axles. The types of drive
layouts are Front engine Front wheel drive (FF/ FWD), Front engine Rear wheel
drive (FR/RWD), Mid engine Rear wheel drive(MR), Rear engine Rear wheel drive(RR),
Four wheel drive (4WD or 4x4) and the All Wheel Drive(AWD). Each of these
layouts has their own performance, advantages and disadvantages.
Front engine Front wheel drive (FF/FWD) – The Engine and the two driven axles
are placed in front, where the power from the engine is transferred straight to
the front wheels. This layout increases the interior space especially in small
cars because there is no central tunnel needed for the driveshaft. FF layout has
advantage when it comes on low grip surfaces, and its tendency to understeer
reduces the risk of losing control. The disadvantage is the load placed on the
front tires. The front tires must transfer all acceleration, steering, cornering,
and braking forces to the road. This kind of tasks gives a lot of stress in
front tires which may lead to wear and tear, while the rear tires have very
little load on them.
Front engine Rear wheel drive (FR/ RWD) - This is the complement of FF layout,
where the engine is placed longitudinally at the front but the two driven axles
are placed at the rear connected through the driveshaft. With this kind of
layout, installation of more powerful engine such as V8, V10 and V12 is not a
problem. Since the FR has a driveshaft, central tunnel is present in this layout
a little interior space is sacrificed. All of the disadvantages of the FF layout
are the advantages of FR layout.
Mid Engine Rear wheel drive (MR) – The drive layout that consumes a lot of
interior space of the car especially the seating capacity, the engine is placed
in the middle of the chassis and the driven axles are at the rear. Although it
has more weight at the rear, entering a corner makes it more difficult because
the front tires have less traction resulting to understeer and since the rear is
heavy, the car tends to oversteer when exiting a corner. This kind of layout is
commonly used in racing cars and sports cars because of weight distribution
focused in the center of the car.
Rear engine Rear wheel drive (RR) - This layout places both engine and the
driven axle at the rear of the vehicle, even though the rear wheels benefit from
the additional grip due to the added weight given by the engine, the front
wheels still need grip in order to steer the car effectively. That’s why RR
layout car can also be prone to understeer.
Four Wheel Drive (4WD or 4X4) / All Wheel Drive (AWD) – It is a term usually
used to describe a car where the four wheels receive power from the engine
simultaneously. This can be found in an off-road vehicle. A well distributed
power to the four wheels improves the grip of the vehicle. The terms 4WD and 4X4
are used in jeeps and other off-road vehicles that require the driver to switch
from 2WD used in street driving (two wheel drive) to 4WD to improve the grip
depending on the road condition like mud, snow, etc. and it has a high and low
gear selection. The AWD term was invented to identify the vehicle capable of
driving all the wheels on any road condition without selecting high and low gear
selection because the power is distributed on all the wheels. Unlike the 4WD
with gear selection, you don’t have to select the appropriate gear to match the
road condition. Most of the modern cars use AWD system for more traction and
better handling.
Alvin D. Agomaa
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