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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.

 

 

Books reading materials and elecronic media about cars and other motor vehicles  - By clicking at this banner you will find a grat range of  books, calendars, manuals, videos and collectibles about:  Modern and classic cars, auto racing, motorcycles, trucks, tractors, trains, boats, aviation, military history, bicycles, americana, and collectibles.

 

 

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:

 

A product example - by clicking at the link you will find a full Vizualogic assortment

 

Sunvisor Monitor for the Vizualogic Headrest Video System This Sunvisor Monitor replaces your factory secondary visor and is for use with the Vizualogic Headrest Monitor System. Features: Mounts on existing hardware 100% factory color match Folds away when not in use Unique protection system prevents viewing while vehicle is in motion 7 inch (widescreen format) 960 x 234 Resolution Made in the USA by TMI. IMPORTANT NOTE: This product is currently available for the following vehicles ONLY: Cadillac (2001-2004): Escalade Chevrolet (1995-2004): Suburban, Tahoe, Ford (2000-04): Expedition GMC (2000-2004): Denali, Yukon, Yukon XL Lincoln (2000-2004): Navigator For 2004 Vehicles:  The Sunvisor Monitors are only applicable for Dual Sunvisors.

 

Superstore with car workshop tools, vehicle aurio and video, electronic map and GPS systems and much more  - By clicking at this banner, you will enter a superstor where you can find vehicle electronics, vehicle specialty tools, electronic navigation tools,  tools for most other purposes, and also articles of these cathegories: Herbs and food, Camping and outdoors, Kitchenware, Housewares, Bath and Body, Equipment for Pets, Teas and Koffee, Herbs and Spices, Hydroponics, Sport and Games, Musical Instruments, Media, Electronics, Health and Personal Care.

Product examples

TRUCK MIRROR-MOUNT, HIGH-GAIN CELLULAR ANTENNA WORKS GREAT ON TRUCKS, RVS, CARS, BOATS, HOMES & MULTIPLE OTHER APPLICATIONS; BUILT-IN GROUND PLANE ALLOWS USERS TO MOUNT ON ANY SURFACE, SUCH AS METAL, FIBERGLASS, WOOD, ETC. 19 inch FIBERGLASS MAST RAISES ANTENNA ABOVE OBSTRUCTIONS; MOUNTING OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR ANY APPLICATION; FITS STANDARD THREADED MOUNT SUBCATEGORY2: AMPLIFIERS & ANTENNAS. Warranty: ONE YEAR.

ONSTAR INTERFACE (FOR GM BOSE -EQUIPPED VEHICLES) REPLACES FACTORY RADIO IN 2003 2006 GM SUVS & TRUCKS WHILE RETAINING ONSTAR; PLUG & PLAY, NO CUTTING OR SPLICING INTO FACTORY PLUG; PACOS2/PACOS2BOSE COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY WITH THE ONSTAR MODULE TO PREVENT FALSE ;TRIGGERING & ELIMINATING UNWANTED AUDIO NOISE; ON-BOARD AMPLIFIER WILL DRIVE TWO 4W SPEAKERS IN STEREO; USE WITH THE EXISTING FACTORY SPEAKERS OR EXTERNAL SPEAKERS; FOR 2003 2004 CADILLAC ESCALADE, ESCALADE EXT, & ESCALADE ESV; 2003 2004 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE, SILVERADO, SUBURBAN & TAHOE; 2002-2004 TRAIL BLAZER WITH BOSE; 2003 2004 GMC ENVOY, SIERRA, SIERRA DENALI, YUKON DENALI & YUKON SLT; 2003 HUMMER H2; 2004 HUMMER H2 (WILL NEED A CM1 TO RETAIN WARNING CHIMES) SUBCATEGORY2: INSTALLATION ACCESSORIES. Warranty: ONE YEAR.

GARMIN 010-00270-02 RINO SERIES 120 GPS/2-WAY RADIO 2-WAY, HANDHELD 2-MILE FRS & 5-MILE GMRS RADIO COMBINED WITH WAAS-ENABLED GPS; WATERPROOF; INTEGRATED 12-CHANNEL GPS; 22 COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; USER MAY SELECT 1 OF 38 SUB-AUDIBLE SQUELCH CODES FOR SEMI-PRIVATE CONVERSATION; VOICE SCRAMBLER; VIBRATION MODE FOR SILENT CALLS; 8 MB INTERNAL MEMORY; BUILT-IN BASEMAP OF NORTH ;& SOUTH AMERICA INCLUDING CITIES, HIGHWAYS, INTERSTATES, LOCAL THOROUGHFARES & SECONDARY ROADS WITHIN METRO AREAS, INTERSTATE EXIT SERVICES, AIRPORTS, RIVERS, LAKES & COASTLINES; USING OPTIONAL MAPSOURCE CD-ROMS, USERS CAN DOWNLOAD UP TO 8 MB OF ADDITIONAL MAPS ;PROVIDING FEATURES FOR TOPOGRAPHIC, BATHYMETRIC, STREET-LEVEL DETAIL & MORE; CAN ALSO BE USED WITH OPTIONAL MAPSOURCE FISHING ;HOT SPOTS & BLUECHART CD-ROMS; REQUIRES 3 AAA BATTERIES FOR 15 HOURS; SCREEN SIZE: 1. 4 inchH X 1. 4 inchW HIGH-CONTRAST LCD DISPLAY WITH BRIGHT BACKLIGHTING; DIM: 4. 5 inchH X 2. 3 inchW X 1. 6 inchD; 7 inchH WITH ANTENNA SUBCATEGORY2: GPS RECEIVERS. Warranty: ONE YEAR PARTS LABOR WATER DAMAGE.

MINI MOBILE DUAL BAND WIRELESS AMPLIFIER WITH ULTRA-SLIM ANTENNA (NO EXTERIOR ANTENNA) DELIVERS 6X MORE POWER THAN A NORMAL CELLULAR PHONE; DOES NOT REQUIRE PHYSICAL CONNECTION TO CELLULAR PHONE OR CELLULAR PC CARD; DUAL BAND 800/1900 MHZ; GREATLY INCREASES SIGNAL RANGE & CELLULAR PC CARD PERFORMANCE; SUPPORTS MULTIPLE DEVICES SIMULTANEOUSLY; INCLUDES DC POWER SUPPLY & INTERNAL ULTRA-SLIM ANTENNA; WITHOUT EXTERIOR ANTENNA SUBCATEGORY2: AMPLIFIERS & ANTENNAS. Warranty: ONE YEAR.

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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