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Donut Media:

(gun shots)
- So, you want to turbo your car, huh?
But you're a little short on funds?
Relatable.
Is a cheap turbo worth your money?
(upbeat music)
(engine revs)
It's WheelHouse time baby.
Ooh wee.
Sure, we've all heard horror stories of
cheap turbos blowing up or
lasting a hundred miles.
But as of late, there have been
more and more success stories.
Stories of people having no issues at all.
Aside from figuring out what to buy
with all that extra cash they've saved.
(triumphant horn)
A big thick boy thank
you to NOS Energy Drink,
for partnering with Donut, and this show.
Not only do they help out
WheelHouse, but they specifically
asked to sponsor this week's
Hot Take segment as well.
I mean have you seen the
guys like BoostedBoiz.
They're making piles of power and
putting miles per hour on
some pretty cheap stuff.
(car engine revving)
Their running 9s.
- [Spectator] That's it, that's it.
(crowd cheering)
- Yes!
(loud engine)
Nine eight in 147, woo hoo!
(piano music)
- So let's review what
a turbo actually does.
They have a pretty tough job.
Their environment is
really, really, really hot.
Being bolted on to your exhaust and all.
When bearing tolerances are out of spec,
it can cause premature wear,
which can lead to oil pushing
past the seals and turning into
blue smoke coming out
the back of your car.
Anything from poor casting processes,
to the temperatures
molten metal is poured at,
to the specific blend of
metal being poured can cause
imperfections in important
parts of the compressor wheel.
Don't they check all that stuff?
Well, with the advent of the internet
came a wave of manufacturing
facilities all over the world.
Email and computer-aided design, CAD,
allowed companies to communicate
and share designs with ease.
That meant great things for
companies in places with
expensive labor, like America.
Boom!
Get things made in places
with cheap labor, right?
Wrong, kind of.
There are all sorts of growing pains,
with all the countless
fledgling factories.
Even factories that make good
turbos can have mistakes.
If there's no one inspecting
your turbo before it ships
to your door, then you're
at the mercy of Lady Luck.
And let me tell ya, she can
be kinda mean sometimes.
But luckily for these factories,
many of the companies
asking them to make parts,
provided them with knowledge and cash.
In a relatively short time, the ability
of these overseas manufacturing
plants skyrocketed.
But that doesn't mean that all
the factories themselves,
stepped their game up.
Is it a complete gamble?
In short, yes.
But we can try to swing
the results in our favor.
(bouncy music)
First, buying the cheapest of the
cheap is never a good idea.
The cheapest new turbo on eBay
hovers around a hundred bucks.
That's ridiculous.
Too cheap, don't buy it.
Second, read the reviews.
This goes for pretty much
everything you buy online,
but especially with car parts.
Look on the forums.
Even forums that aren't for your car.
There are gonna be a lot
of opinions and people
throwing their two cents
around like grenades.
There's one thing I
know about the internet,
it's that people like other
people knowing their opinions.
But if you can find people with
actual hands-on experience,
you'll find the useful information.
Third, look for information
about the company
you're going to be buying from.
Have they been around for very long?
Do they make any overall quality
or quality control claims?
And most importantly is there a guarantee
or a return policy if
your turbo does blow up?
Beyond checking reviews and
snooping on the company,
there isn't much you can do
to insure that the cheap turbo
you might buy will be a good one.
It's still gonna be a bit of a gamble
When you're talking a quarter of a
price of a brand name turbo.
So now it's time to look
inwards, to find out
if you really are about
that cheap turbo life.
You need to think about the what if.
What if it does fail?
Do you gamble on another or
do you shell out the money
for a name brand turbo after all?
Some folks' philosophy
is that since you can buy
four or five cheap turbos for
the price of one good one,
they'll just keep replacing
them, if and when they fail.
They probably will.
That brings up another question.
Who's doing the work?
If you're paying someone
to install your turbo,
the money you spend on
labor will quickly add up
and make your cheap turbo
a little less cheap.
Another big question is,
how hard is it gonna be?
Are we talking a top mount
super easy accessible turbo?
If so great.
But on some cars, replacing
a turbo or turbos can be a
total nightmare or at
least a really long dream
where you have a
perpetually bloody knuckles.
Check out HiLow and
you'll see what I mean.
- [Eddie] Good now?
- No, Eddie, not good.
What the (beep) you think dude?
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Did NOS Energy Drink partner
with Up to Speed first?
Yes.
Did they then move on to Bumper to Bumper?
Yes.
But did they save the
best Donut show for last?
Hmm, as someone who is
completely impartial,
someone who has no skin in the game,
someone who is 100% unbiased.
Yes.
Yes they did.
WheelHouse number one, baby.
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(loud drinking)
(satisfied sigh)
NOS Energy Drink, baby, drink it.
(laughing)
(high energy music)
If you are a bit of a mad scientist,
there are a couple of other things
you can do to potentially improve
the odds of cheap turbo success.
There have been many accounts
of people dismantling
their brand new turbos
before installing them,
cleaning them out a little bit
and putting them back together.
Another thing some people have
done is rebuilding the turbo
with new higher quality
bearing, seals, and rings,
right out of the box.
This only works if you can find
rebuild parts for your cheap turbo.
But if you can definitely do that.
All of that stuff, replacing, cleaning,
and rebuilding the turbo takes time.
How much time do you have
to spend on this stuff?
And again, what will you
drive in the mean time?
If your project car isn't your daily,
then your probably in okay shape.
But if you're playing
doctor on your daily,
uh, you're kinda rolling the dice.
Another thing you can do is
to make sure you install it properly.
Give it the best possible chance.
I'm talking about making sure
your oil and coolant lines
are properly routed for the
best lubrication and cooling.
Even if it means a little extra work.
If your oil return line is all kinked up,
even the most expensive turbo
in the world is gonna fail.
(loud engine noises)
(piano music)
So here's the deal.
Whether or not a cheap ass
turbo is a viable option
for your car isn't really a simple answer.
A lot of it comes down to you.
Are you the kind of person
that loves to tinker?
Are you a bit of a risk taker?
(tires screech)
If you do your research, read
reviews, and accept all the
potential outcomes you
might even be able to make
your gamble a little less risky.
Otherwise, you should definitely save up
and get the good stuff.
Through my job, I've been
super fortunate to meet people
from the automotive aftermarket.
I'm talking people from
Vortex, Feal Suspension,
Magnussen, a ton of people,
and they're the ones that put
the blood, sweat, and tears into making
the aftermarket so great.
So what I think the right thing to do is,
instead of being impulsive
and buying the cheap part
from some nameless factory,
is to reward the people that
put the work in and support
small businesses really.
Because you might
unintentionally be taking,
literal labor away from someone
that you might know, you know.
It's just the right thing to do.
Planters NUTmobile is at the office.
- So we like to say that we
always drive the smoothest
peanut butter when we're on
the salty streets of America.
(laughs)
- Huh, you're serious?
- [Woman] Yes.
- Jeez.
- [Woman] So they got to roll up
and everybody was looking at them like,
"Oh my gosh, wow they're really--"
- This thing's nuts!
- Be nice, see you next time.

Why Rich Rebuilds Is Opening A Tesla Repair Shop

CNBC:

The genesis of Electrified Garage was such
that a lot of people started
reaching out to me because
of the YouTube channel.
People that want to get
issues resolved with their Teslas.
And at the time, Tesla was super
busy, they didn't have time to get
people in for appointments.
When many owners try to schedule
a service appointment, the service
centers are stretched thin and appointments
could be weeks out before a
car gets in for service.
So they started reaching out to me and
saying, 'hey Tesla is too busy to
take a look at this,' or 'I own
a savaged vehicle can you take a look
at my electric vehicle?'
So this is a personal
car that I'm working on.
This is my car and this
was in a side collision.
My name's Rich and I run
a YouTube channel called Rich Rebuilds.
Hey guys, Rich with Rich Rebuilds here
and today I'm going to tell you
all what's wrong with my
salvaged flooded Tesla Model S.
The reason why I start my YouTube
channel was to kind of demystify
Teslas in general.
So I purchased the Tesla Model S a
few years ago and I started taking
it apart to see if I
could actually put it back together.
Main screen, the door
handles are presenting.
This is off to a good start.
This car really has a special place
in my heart because this is the
first one that I rebuilt.
This is Dolores my first
completed flood Tesla project.
If you guys haven't heard the story on
this as yet, I found a Tesla
that was in a salt water flood
and spent six months merging two cars
together to bring this
one back to life.
At the time there was a
lot of mystery around the cars.
Tesla wasn't really sharing much information
about them in terms of
what's inside of them
and how they worked.
So I figured to myself, people
may actually be interested in this.
So as I started tearing into the
car more and more, I started taking
detailed photos of
things, detailed videos.
This blue connector goes
back in the door.
And just kind of
took off from there.
I recently had a subscriber
reach out to me.
He reached out to me and said,
'Hey Car Guru, I need help.
I need to install additional seating in
my Tesla Model S and a service
center local to me will
not do it for me.
Can you help me?'
I said absolutely.
The channel has been gaining
an insane amount of traction.
Thank you.
Since then I've gained
a small cult-like following.
Someone printed my face on
a hundred dollar bill.
This is the wall clock
someone made for me.
Someone sent me that poster
of Elon Musk over there.
It's a life sized.
See that long like
weird paper thing?
Yeah. There we go.
So after the YouTube channel started
gaining more and more traction, I
reached out to my friend Chris and
Chris and I just said to ourselves
we got to start something.
This is a huge market here.
Let's help people out as
much as we can.
I know how to rebuild a car.
Chris has the parts to do it and
he has the contacts to actually reach
out to those people to get
the things that we need.
And let's just do something.
Chris was like, 'you know
I could run with this.'
You know he's he's built shops
before from the ground up.
I started with Tesla in January of 2013
and at the time I was looking
for something new.
I was looking to get away from a
desk job and get back to working with
my hands and working on cars.
So about four and a half years in,
I was part of one of the
restructurings that happened
at Tesla.
And at that point, I decided, well you
know, I can go and find another
job and not necessarily be happy or
I can do what I've been thinking
about for a while which was to start
Ev Tuning and do my own thing and
be my own boss.
Ev Tuning is more
of an online presence.
It's a place to go and order parts
where you as a DIY person can
install them yourself.
Either repair your own door handle,
install your own center console,
vinyl wrap or, you know, order a set
of wheels and tires and we can
ship them to your house and
you can install them yourself.
Where Electrified Garage comes into play
is for that person that doesn't
have mechanical ability or frankly doesn't
have the time or the
aptitude to do so.
We're in a startup scrappy
phase at this moment.
We're just like Amazon or Google
or any other startup company that
started in a garage.
You know, we're literally in a two
car garage right now and the
Electrified Garage is gonna be built
adjacent to that in a larger
space.
So over there is gonna be the HVAC.
Yup. The wheel and tire machines are
gonna go over in this corner here.
The alignment machine will be going
in this bay on this side.
There'll be another lift on this side and
then in the front will be an
area just to work on the car if
it doesn't need to be jacked up.
Seventy percent of what you do with a
Tesla doesn't need to be up in
the air.
It's mostly stuff inside the car.
Hey Rich.
Hey, how's it going?
How you doing man?
How have you been?
Great, good to see you.
Good to see you too.
What's she in here for today?
Well I gotta tell you, I think
I'm having a problem with this.
I believe it's this sensor.
OK. It's not quite picking it up when
I'm parking and I just wanted to
have you guys take a look at it.
Sure we'll take a look at it.
No problem Super.
Thanks man.
I had a really well known problem
with door handles presenting and not.
And these guys had put together
a door handle assemblies that used
better quality parts, if you will,
than what the manufacturer was
offering at the time.
And had replacements done with that.
And I had a one of the sensor
units had gone awry and they had taken
care of those things for me.
We pretty much have been booked every
Saturday for over a year now.
With appointments for customers to come
in from anything from getting
their breaks replaced, to a door
handle fixed, or winter wheels and
tires put on their
car, dash camera installs.
Right now it's just.
Yup, just the two of us.
Just us.
And we both actually have full time jobs
too so this is really a, it's
really a struggle at times.
There really is no Tesla presence up
north and here's the oasis of
Teslatude a mere 40 miles away.
So the facility that we're building now
that's next to EV Tuning is
actually in a residential area.
But Seabrook as a town is kind
of unique in that they allow other
businesses to open and operate
in a residential area.
So it's kind of like
a mixed commercial and residential.
There's actually three other garages within a
mile of where we are that
all operate out of
essentially their house.
Electric vehicles don't
make any noise.
They don't make any smells.
You know it's not like a traditional
garage where you're gonna hear all
kinds of loud banging and
that kind of stuff.
For all intensive purposes, we probably
could have said nothing and
nobody would have even known
that we were here.
I think the Tesla struggles as far as
being able to service cars in a
timely manner for a
couple of reasons.
The biggest one is obviously it costs
a lot of money to open service
centers. You have to buy
or outfit an existing location.
You need to hire
employees and train them.
And so that makes it
difficult to do that quickly.
And there's so many other aspects of
the company that need to be ramped
up at the same time.
That's not necessarily an area
that you can focus on.
Tesla has tried to stem some of
that by offering ranger service or
mobile service, as they call it now.
Where it's basically a technician in a
van that has parts and tools and
they go to your house and fix stuff.
But still, even at that, there's
only two service centers in New
England and they're both
close to Boston.
So if you're in Maine, Vermont or
New Hampshire your choice is drive
three or four hours for work to be
done in your car or somebody has to
come to you.
You can easily be three, four or
five weeks out in some instances in
order to get your
car in for service.
We're hoping that the demand is really
strong and we're hoping to grow
this into more of a franchise
type business and almost work alongside
Tesla to actually repair a lot
of their vehicles as well.
Because at this point they need
all the help they can get.
We haven't.
I haven't at least no.
No I haven't.
Yeah. They kind of.
They tend to stay away from us.
Usually when anything comes out they
kind of say well what they're
doing is, kind of their own thing
and then they're giving us too much
attention so.
I personally like him.
I think he's a brilliant guy.
Super smart.
Driven. He's fostered
a great company.
He has his issues of course
but I think he's a genius.
Yes.
There's no doubt about it.
I would agree as a whole, I think
he wants to do the right thing and
he's definitely pushing the rest of the
industry to do the right thing
as well.
A lot of people are super excited to
get these brand new cars and when
they do there is a minor issue with it,
it takes you a month or two to
get back into the system to get the
car repaired and kind of leaves a
bad taste in a
lot of people's mouths.
So our goal was to say to ourselves,
you know what how can we build
something to help this company?
And that's what we're trying to do.

Why Not to Buy a Used Hybrid Car

Scotty Kilmer:

Rev up your engines,
today I'm going to help you decide whether
it's a good idea or not to buy a hybrid car,
now lately people have been asking me,
Scotty I'm thinking about buying a hybrid
car, what do you think about that,
well we'll start with a little history lesson,
hybrid's really started with submarines,
they have diesel engines that would recharge
the battery,
or run the propellers and then necessary and
they were under the water,
they would run only on the electric battery
power,
now the early Honda hybrids used a system
that was rather similar to the submarines
but it was a failure,
people didn't like them, they hardly sold
any of them and they were really slow,
as an example of this,
in 2013 Honda only sold 4,802 Insights,
while Toyota sold 145,172 Priuses,
so right off the bat I'd say don't buy a Honda
hybrid car,
if you want to get a hybrid car you want to
use the Prius design, which actually most
manufacturers use,
and that's an Adkinson cycle 4 cylinder engine
combined with a hybrid generating system,
and using a hybrid battery pack to store the
electrical power,
now the early hybrid used nickle metal hydrate
batteries,
and they were rechargeable,
the modern ones use lithium ion batteries
but for a long time they used nickle metal
hydrate batteries,
now in the case of the Priuses,
originally they had 28 Panasonic hybrid modules
and each module had 1.2 volt cells in it,
which would make 200 something volts for the
whole system, the price of these batteries
has come down over time,
now you can get a new one for about $2,600,
but I don't advise going any cheaper than
that,
there are places that recondition them, but
really you got an old worn out battery that's
made out of a bunch of little batteries,
if they replace a few of the battery cells
in them, hey the other ones are still old
and they're only going to break down over
time,
you really have to go new if your planning
on keeping the car for a long time,
so you have to decide how long your going
to drive your car,
in the case of the Prius the newer ones come
with a 8 year / 100,000 mile warranty,
so if your happy with that you'll never have
to worry about the battery,
but if your planning on buying a used hybrid
car that's more than 8 years old that has
more than 100,000 miles on it,
then you might want to think twice about that
one,
because not only do the batteries cost a lot
of money,
but other repairs cost a fortune too,
like this one that burnt out the generator,
a customer towed her Prius over to my place
because it died while she was driving down
the road,
and found out that it wasn't putting out any
charging voltage at all,
so I checked all the fuses and relays and
they were all perfectly fine,
then I thought, hey it just needs a new alternator,
but guess what, a Toyota Prius doesn't have
an alternator,
it uses a generator that's built into the
transfer case,
now if it would have been an older Toyota
like this old Celica,
the alternator is right here,
you just take off a couple bolts and a fan
belt and replace the alternator,
you could get a rebuilt one for $100 or so
and put in on in about 10 minutes,
but sadly in this hybrid system that's not
the case,
it doesn't use an alternator to charge the
battery, it uses a generator,
inside the transfer case here it's not seperately
serviceable,
I did a lot of research on the internet and
you have to buy the entire transfer assembly
for $3,459.68,
and if that wasn't bad enough, it takes over
10 hours of labor to take it all apart and
put it all back together again,
so most places are going to charge over $5,000
to do the job, and unfortunately in these
2002 Priuses it's very common for the generators
to short out they overheat and melt,
and unless you want to keep buying giant batteries
and recharging them to drive the car,
you have to fix it to make it able to drive,
and then of course you have to factor in the
cost of the car,
they cost a lot more, how much gas mileage
your actually going to get, and does this
amount to a profit over time,
a lot of times it doesn't for normal people,
but I recently came back from Seattle and
all the Uber drivers there were practically
all driving Priuses,
since they get such better gas mile with regenerative
braking,
in town, and a lot of taxi drivers do a lot
of in town driving,
you see all these Priuses because they're
cheaper to operate, it's a business and your
putting a lot of miles on it,
but if your just driving your car normally,
you might find that the extra expense of buying
a hybrid, and if your like me and want to
keep your car for 100,000's of miles,
the extremely high repairs your going to do
as they get old,
it's not really worth it buying a hybrid for
somebody who drives like that,
now my opinion on hybrids is this,
I see them as a type of stop gap technology,
there half way between gasoline cars and electric
cars and since your not fighting a war in
a U boat,
it's really not that necessary for most people,
so if you never want to miss another one of
my new car repair videos, remember to ring
that bell!

10 Largest SUV Cars with up to 9 Passenger Seats (2018 Buyer's Guide)

Automotive Territory: Daily News:

Welcome to Automotive Territory Daily News!
Humongous, immense, enormous, gargantuan,
massive and huuuge, these are just a couple
of adjectives that could be used to describe
full-size SUVs that will be featured in this
video.
So if you are a fan of luxury yachts on wheels
or have just always dreamt about a car that
you could fit your entire house in stick around
for a little longer.
We will show you the best full-size sport
utility vehicles on the market today.
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Which automaker company owns your favorite car brand? You'd be surprised

Vehicle Virals:

Not to disappoint you but most badges you see on your favorite cars are not as transparent as you think they are today
I'll be showing you which automakers own your favorite car brands
My name is Christian, and this is vehicle Virals make sure to subscribe for weekly out of motive content
Let's begin when you think of James Bond, which car brand comes to mind
That's right Aston, Martin today Aston, Martin isn't owned by a larger automaker
But don't think it was always that way it was once under Ford and then sold to a group of investors in
2007 one key investor was Mercedes Benz parent company named leur the tie-in with
Mercedes now gives Aston Martin access to AMG engines for its latest sports cars a sweet deal moving on
BMW for you guys that didn't know it stands for Bay or ish
Motorin work
It's German for barbarian motor works BMW owns two automobile brands
many
Which was relaunched in 2001 and rolls-royce which was acquired in?
2002 you can even see some BMW influences in the rolls-royce
Ghost sedan next one on the list there's a automaker Daimler AG
Ring a bell it probably doesn't but at the same time it probably does because I just mentioned it when I talked about Aston Martin
I know for sure it didn't ring a bell for me when I first did my research its original name was damned ler bends before
transitioned over to the new name damn ler AG in
1998 they own all of Mercedes divisions such as the Benz the AMG and a Maybach
They also homesmart you remember seeing those tiny cars in the road
They could basically pop a u-turn in one lane Daimler. Also owns a truck companies such as Freightliner alright
Let's move on to Fiat that was founded in 1899 it is Italy's largest auto
Manufacturer and also one of the oldest auto makers in the world
They mainly produce railroad engines tractors and airplane engines until
1950 where they then offered a full lineup of cars
Enough with the Boring stuff, which car companies do they control well here
They are a breath Alfa Romeo Maserati and Chrysler which was apart after filing bankruptcy
In 2011 with Chrysler comes all of their brands as well such as Dodge Jeep and Ram
That's right that means the ultra powerful Hellcat is also under Fiat you think that's impressive wait till you see the last
Automaker on this list make sure to watch the whole video the next automaker was actually under Fiat back in the day
That is before ended up separated from its parent company in
2016 ladies and gentlemen Ferrari once known as Fiat crown jewel is now independent and known as a symbol of speed
Luxury and wealth yep
The next car company revolutionized the use of assembly lines for cars its iconic car the Model T
Is widely considered the first massively available automobile any guesses if you guess forward then you're correct?
Ford Onan had major stakes in Land Rover Mazda mercury Aston
Martin just like stated before
Volvo and Jaguar all those brands were either sold or shut down and the only brand they currently own is
Lincoln the next automaker company downsized
Quite a bit after filing for bankruptcy back in 2009 you might have heard a bottom in the news
I mean I couldn't miss them. They were all over the web at the time that is General Motors
Have known as GM the car brands. They currently own are Buick Cadillac Chevrolet GMC
and Holden a brand only
Distributed in Australia this next automaker was known as a new kid on the block back when it was founded in
1948 Honda named after one of the company's founder Soichiro Honda
Sorry about pronounced it wrong
I remember during my teenage years encounter in Honda owners
making fun of Acura owners and vice versa but all it took was to pop open the hood of an Acura Integra to expose the
Honda branding under the hood their reactions
Priceless moving on to Hyundai or Honda whatever you want to call it based in South Korea
I launched his first car in cooperation with Ford in
1968 today hyundai owns a good chunk of kia, it's key competitor
You know what they say if you can't beat them join them the two share many parts among their production such as engine and trans
One interesting move that on the recently did was to branch out its Genesis model to a sub brand of its own
Genesis motors next on the list is Mazda the name originates from our hua
Mazda and Iranian god. That's a cool fact. Isn't it once known as a company that manufactured tools
eventually expanded to automobiles in
1930 the only time I ever had with any other automaker was but Ford owned one third of the company
Later on went on to sell its shares
Which means Mazda is independently owned moving on to one of my favorite automakers of all time?
McLaren a British firm known for building fast sexy sports cars, but hey
That's not all they also run a Formula One team and a division named applied technologies
Which make a unique selection of a product such as bicycles medicine and even solar panels and yes McLaren is?
Independently owned now. Let's talk about Mitsubishi men you might not know but Mitsubishi Corporation
It actually depends largest general trader market. What does general trader marking you ask I'm glad you asked according to Wikipedia
Businesses working with some different type of products which are sold for consumer business or government purposes Mitsubishi became a car maker in
1970 and remain independent for a long time, but now it's controlled by brand not Nissan Alliance talking about right now, Nissan
They actually only 43% of Nissan as many of you guys probably already know Nissan runs his luxury focus division
Infinity before I confirm that this was true
I already had a hunch that they were closely related the same hunch I get when I see
CVS and Walgreens and in Advance Auto Parts in an
Autozone Nissan recently revived Datsun in order to sell economy cars to emerging markets they also own the Romanian car market
Dacia and hold controller stakes in Mitsubishi
Like mentioned previously not really much to say about the following
Automaker company and that is Saab one unique thing is that they specialize in
Aerospace and defense manufacturing as far as automobiles
They're not doing too hot sap isn't quite dead, but it's not doing too
Well the following car maker is a Subaru they doing quite well for themselves
By setting a new annual sales record for ten consecutive years
And if you consider that they are for the most part independent you have to admit. That's quite impressive
I say most part because Toyota owns
16% of Subaru have you ever heard of Tata or Teta?
Not sure which way to say it well
It's a company that currently owns Jaguar and Land Rover that they purchased from Ford back in 2008
according to most haters fame came when it released its Nano vehicle for
$2,500 I mean look at it
What is that banana was originally created to lead India's and middle class away from motorcycles?
Sadly the Nano had many issues and a filter his target by a long shot now. Let's talk about Tesla
There's not really much to say other than it was founded by a group of engineers back in
2003 their cars are currently manufacturing in Fremont
California everybody main independent from any other larger automaker the company recently outlines plans for a new semi truck a super-fast
roadster and a new crossover called numata why moving on to Toyota one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world
They own
lexus
Dot 2 and Hino Motors, you might also remember the sign brand that was also under the Toyota umbrella
I remember the boxy car the xB and a scion tc sign cars were targeted towards the youth
but after slow sales Toyota ultimately decided to close the blinds for the sign in
2016 the following Swedish automaker was founded back in
1927 known as Volvo it was purchased by a Chinese firm from Ford
Following a huge time investment and money to update the Volvo lineup and for the most part it paid off
Now Bulbul stands as an independent automaker company
I might have just saved the best for last
And this next automaker has to have one of the best lineup some brands under their belt it blows me away
Just thinking about it the automaker is Volkswagen and for those that didn't know it means people's car in German
They quickly rose to the top. Thanks to its beetle selling well worldwide
It is also one of the biggest auto makers in the world ready to be blown away
Let's go they own howdy
Bentley Porsche Bugatti, Lamborghini
C skids man trucks Scania and Ducati
Impressive all guys that will say
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Best Tuner Cars Under 10k | The Bestest | Donut Media

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- [Narrator] Whether you
need to carve some canyons,
hit up a track day, learn to drift,
or just have fun on a daily basis,
you're gonna need to
pick a weapon of choice.
This week I'm covering the
best project cars you can buy,
maintain, and customize for under $10,000.
With 10k in the bank, you can buy
any of these cars at any commitment level.
You can start cheap and
customize, or you can
find one in great shape
that's ready to rip.
I'm starting off my list
with the Audi S4 B5.
You can find these from anywhere
between 4500 to 6500 bucks
which gives you some room for repairs
and some simple modifications like
suspension, wheels, brakes, tires.
The key word here, repairs.
Because the bi-turbo V6 is pretty complex,
and replacing the timing belt
every 80k can get pretty hairy.
However, if you're up for the challenge
you can tune this motor to do
some really incredible things.
And you'll have a great looking car
that has street cred as an M3 killer.
Ready for any canyon
road, track day, car show
regardless of if it's snowing,
raining, or in the middle of nowhere.
If you're nervous about repairs
like any sane person would be,
then you can always save a
ton of cash and headaches
by going with a 1.8T model A4.
Those engines are pretty
reliable, they're easy to fix,
and they make some pretty good power
with a tune and some bolt-ons.
And you still get that look and feel
of a quality German sports car.
And if you're extra practical,
they make both in a wagon.
And since we're talking
dollar signs and not euros,
I have to bring up the Fox Body Mustang.
It's been gaining
popularity over the years
and that's reflected by
the expensive listings
I've stumbled upon
while doing my research.
You can still find them
for around 2800 bucks,
but you know that car is
going to need a lot of love.
Once you get inside that hunk of junk
and burn some gas with that
obnoxious low revving V8,
you're going to forget all that
mismatched paint and the missing bumper.
However, if you have a little patience,
you can find a legit
example for around $7,000.
I'm talking murdered out,
tuxedo black, legit-ness.
Ready To turn tight ones in Oakland, CA
and then dip out on the 580.
Okay, not everyone has a
burning need for speed.
Some people just want a respectable car
that looks good, is
reliable, and drives great.
If that's the case then
the 190E Mercedes-Benz
could be the car for you.
There's a bunch of models to choose from.
Depending on what you're into,
and how much you're into it.
The cream of the crop being
the 190E 2.3 liter 16 valve Cosworth.
The 190E was a legend in the golden era
of German touring car racing.
And because the Cosworth was the model
with the most history behind it,
you're gonna have to do some
digging to find one under 10k.
But the other models
still carry that flair
and they were built like bricks.
That means they don't break down.
And they look like bricks.
If you want a car that can commute to work
and look good doing it,
you can't go wrong here.
That being said, you can pick up
less desirable models
all day for under 3k.
Slap on some bags, some
three piece wheels,
and you'll have an automatic
pass into any car club.
Otherwise, keep that baby stock
and reap all the benefits
of a wise choice.
The second generation Mazda RX-7, the FC,
is on its way to becoming a
collector's car for enthusiasts.
It's a Japanese version
of the Porsche 944.
Which is also an under $10,000,
but it's not on this list.
The rotary engine is not known
for being super reliable,
but it is know for sounding great,
being lightweight, and
packing plenty of power.
You can find them anywhere between 3k
for a car that needs a
little love all the way up
to 10k for a car in great shape.
And if a driving experience
is what you're after,
that's what you gonna get with the FC.
With 50/50 weight distribution
and a dynamic tracking suspension system,
which is sort of like the 80's version
of four wheel steering, you'll get
that heavenly connection with the car
and the road that many
cars cannot provide.
And trust me, that feeling
makes everything worth it.
Just make sure you leave some money
in the bank because this car will break.
The Corrado VR6, a unicorn hatchback
regarded as the poor man's Porsche.
That's because it was
faster out of the factory
that the Porsche 944 I mentioned earlier.
Plus, it's got this
sweet mechanical spoiler
that pops up when you hit 45 mph.
The Corrado VR6 is becoming
increasingly rare and hard to find.
And the prices reflect
its collectible status.
That being said, you can
still find a good one
for around 6 1/2k with a
little bit of patience.
And all you really need
is a nice set of coilovers
to give it that aggressive
look and performance.
But, don't expect that
spoiler to work for too long.
Because the Corrados are
known for electrical issues.
I know because I owned one.
And even though I have a scar on my back
from a malfunctioning
electrical seat belt hook,
I still wish I never sold it.
It handles like a go-kart,
the engine sounds great
and runs super strong, and
you'll be instant friends
with every other dubber you meet.
- V Dub for life dude.
- Yo, V Dub.
- Yeah.
- My third best pick is
the Porsche Boxter S.
Yes, that's right.
You can own a Porsche for under 10k
and it won't be a beater.
It mike not be the best looking Porsche,
but once you slap on a
hard top with a roll cage
and a rear wing, it all of a
sudden starts to look the part.
Lots of guys race these
cars competitively.
And they hang on the track with cars
that are twice as expensive.
It's mid-engine so it has great handling
characteristics that
Boxter owners swear by.
And you get that awesome sound
that is unmistakably Porsche.
It's one of the newer cars that you can
buy at a bargain with low mileage.
So it's pretty hard not to
rank it high on this list.
Second place goes to everyone's
favorite beginner car.
The Mazda Miata.
Lightweight, small, nimble,
but they've been increasing
in price and I would never
be caught driving one.
And since these are cars
I'm recommending to buy,
I'm taking it off and I'm replacing it
with the EK Civic hatchback.
I've never owned one of these,
but I've seen the performance
potential of these things
and the EK is probably
the best looking model.
If you drop 10k into a Civic hatch,
you're gonna have one
fast little fart can.
Parts are cheap, upgrades are vast,
and engine swaps are endless.
Plus, it's super light.
That means you can drag race it.
Give people whiplash while
driving past any boba shop.
And if you got the
skills you might be able
to keep up with those rich noobs
in their Nissan GT-Rs at the track.
Just saying.
Last but not least the BMW E36
is finally being recognized by me
as the best bargain for
performance and style you can buy.
Note that I did not say M3.
Good luck finding one of those
for under 10k that doesn't need
another 5k in repairs or
preventative maintenance.
But you can easily find a
325 or 328 for under 3k.
Which leaves you plenty
of room for modifications
to take this car to the next level.
As in M3 level.
Say you start with a 325is.
You can pick up an M3 engine
for about 2 to 3,000 bucks.
And it's a straight up
plug and play engine swap.
That's right.
The engine bolts right on to the
existing five speed transmission.
And the wiring harness
literally plugs right in.
It does not get any easier than that.
And boom.
You've got a lightweight
M3 for half the money
that lets you rip up canyon roads,
take it to the track,
enter rear-wheel drive
rally competitions, drift,
you can do whatever you want.
You can even pick up a chick for a date
and still look good doing it.
They're easy to find, easy to work on,
and they're easy on the eyes.
Even if you don't swap the engine,
if you lower the car and
slap on some meaty tires,
you're gonna have a lot of fun.
Again I know, because I used to own one.
Not gonna lie, I'm a little biased.
But, there's a reason you're seeing
these cars more and more.
That's my list.
And believe me, it could be a lot longer.
So if you have any other recommendations,
let us know in the comments.
That way, anyone currently searching
for ideas can weight their options.
I can think of three more right now.
Mini Cooper S, Toyota MR2, 300ZX.
Just remember, do your research.
The key to finding the right car is
patience, persistence, and research.
Don't be afraid to walk away
from the first car you check out.
And most importantly, try to stay away
from red flags like salvage titles,
high mileage, rust, and automatics.
Me and Pumfrey made a sweet video where
we actually buy an E36.
Click right here to watch that
and find out all the tips you need
to know before you actually buy a car.
We got new shows every day of the week.
We've got Wheelhouse with Nolan on Monday.
You got Field Prep with the
pro drifter Matt Field on Tuesdays.
You've got science garage
with Bart every Wednesday.
Up to Speeds on Thursday, you know that.
And the best show, with the
bestest, with me every Friday.
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family, it's all the time.
See you next time.

LOTUS - Everything You Need to Know | Up To Speed

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(classical music)
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- It's the British car company
that changed F1 racing forever.
It shares its name with a beautiful flower
and its founder faked
his own death, allegedly.
You guys have been asking for this one
since we started this show.
Ladies and gents, this is everything
you need to know to get
up to speed on Lotus.
(playful music)
Okay guys, Lotus is a
massive story turns out
so bare with me because
I'm going to do my best.
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman was born
on the outskirts of
London, England in 1929.
His dad ran a hotel and the weather
was always cloudy and damp.
So what was a pasty, British
boy with too many names to do?
Luckily he'd studied
structural engineering
and spent time in the
Royal Air Force Reserves
while in college at the
University of London.
Turns out aeronautical
engineering experience
comes in pretty handy for making
fast, fun, four-wheeled stuff.
It's probably what led to his famous
philosophy about pretty much everything.
Simplify then add lightness.
Colin Chapman's first
project was modifying
a 20-year-old Austin 7 for
local trials racing in 1948.
Trials were basically long endurance races
over a variety of roads and terrain.
The Austin had 15
screamin' shetland ponies
and Colin made enough money with it
to build out a Mark II version
which began the tradition of
numbering all of his cars.
There have been way more
than 100 Lotus models,
so there's only time to
hit a few of the bangers.
But, if you like a lot more
detail and listen to podcasts,
Donut has a new one called Past Gas
that covers some of the rad
automotive history in depth.
Each episode is over an hour
long and no one is there.
It's literally my favorite thing to do.
Check it out wherever
you get your podcasts.
Also,
(burps)
After trials races, Colin tried his hand
at 750cc formula racing.
Working nights in his garage
after his day job at British Aluminum,
Chapman took a third Austin 7 and modified
everything the rules didn't forbid.
He boxed the frame rails.
Added tubular cross members for stiffness.
Beefed up the engine and
replaced the stock tub
with a lighter, more
aerodynamic aluminum body.
He called this the Lotus Mark III.
The first of his creations to sport
the name of a revered flower.
If you want to know why
he picked the name Lotus,
you're gonna have to take your DeLorean
up to 88 mph and go
back in time and ask him
because the dude never
officially told anybody.
But sit tight, the DeLorean is
going to come up again later.
That's called foreshadowing.
(laughing)
It was soon clear that the Lotus
was the fastest 750
formula car in the country.
And other races wanted in on it.
So in 1952, Colin Chapman
and his friend Colin Dare,
two Colins don't make a right,
officially turned his race
car hobby into a business.
The Lotus Engineering Company.
They set up a factory in the empty stables
behind the hotel that
Chapman's dear old dad managed
and got to work moving
horsepower back into the build.
You get it?
It was a stable and now they do car stuff.
Horsepower.
(horse neighing)
Success came quickly with the new
Mark IV model and within two years,
team Lotus was split off
from the engineering company
to be dedicated entirely to racing.
In 1957, Lotus launched the Mark VII.
An open air, street legal track car.
Due to a loophole in the law,
people could buy it as a kit,
pay for it on two separate invoices,
and avoid paying sales tax.
Freaking genius.
One of the purest and simplest
sports cars ever made.
It was Lotus' first big seller
and came to be known simply as the Seven.
Low to the ground and without doors,
some said it was like driving
a motorcycle with four wheels
and since they could be street registered,
you could race them on Sunday
then drive them to work on Monday.
They're very practical.
Lotus sourced engines from
a variety of manufacturers
so their specs almost
always varied over time.
But the general idea was
that even a small motor
could make a 1,200 horse power...
Was that even a small motor
could make a 1,200 pound car go fast
and small motors were easy to get.
The overall concept was
so ridiculously good
that Caterham took over the
rights to build it in 1973.
And they still make
basically the same car today.
Over sixty years later.
(engine revving)
But Lotus was just starting to bloom.
Flush with cash from sales,
the Seven Lotus developed the Elite.
Their first car with a roof.
Kind of a nice feature if you
live in the rainy, rainy UK.
Taking it a step beyond the Corvette,
which had a fiberglass
body on a steel frame,
the Elite had a fiberglass monocoque,
independent suspension and
a .29 coefficient of drag.
That's low even by today's standards.
And it's extra impressive because
it was designed without a
wind tunnel or computers.
Computers didn't even
freaking exist back then.
It was sleek and gorgeous from every angle
and powered by a 1.2
liter Coventry Climax.
(laughing)
Four-cylinder engine that
made it around 95 horsepowers.
Lotus has never really been about
trying to have more power, baby.
It's always been about
power to ratios, baby.
The Elite 1700 pound curb weight,
aerodynamic body and good fuel economy
helped it win its class six times
at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The Lotus race team
officially entered Formula One
at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix
with a pair of front
engine cars and did okay.
Once they switched the mid-engine
monocoque Type 25 in 1960,
the Lotus way of looking at things
paid off and the wins started coming.
By the end of 1963, the company
was a force to be reckoned with.
Driver Jim Clark won
seven races that season
and the first of seven
Constructors' Championships
for Lotus over the next 15 years.
Just a couple of years later,
they were also the first to win
the Indy 500 with a mid-engine car.
Back home at the factory,
production of the delicate Elite
gave way to the Elan.
They kept the whole fiberglass body
and added a steel backbone
for extra stiffness.
A basic platform they're
still using today.
It was the first car Lotus
made only for the street.
But with sweet handling,
four wheel disc brakes,
a double overhead cam Ford engine
and the company's new
F1 winning reputation,
people raced them anyways.
So, Lotus eventually built
out Elans for competition
and bumped the 1,500
pound car's horsepower
from 100 all the way up
to 160 sportier ponies.
Around the same time,
Lotus teamed up with Ford
to put the Elan's hot motor
into one of Ford's own cars.
Lotus took the two door Cortina.
It's a beautiful car.
Redesigned the rear suspension
and added lightness, lightness,
lightness, lightness.
Ford homologated it for a
group two touring car racing
and the boxy little 1.6
liter Ford banger sedans
beat everything but the Ford
Galaxies with seven liter V8s.
(engine revving)
Lotus proved again.
They could punch above their weight class.
The 1966 Europa was Lotus' first stab
at a mid-engine street car.
It also looked like it
was designer Ron Hickman's
first stab at designing a
car even though it wasn't.
It's like he spent the entire class
just making the front half beautiful
and then the teacher's like,
"All right, pencils down."
And Colin's like,
"Oh, crap."
Colin wanted to branch
out beyond Ford engine
so they tuned up a 1.5
liter Renault inline-4
and mounted it longitudinally
in the back behind the cockpit.
It was as fun to drive as previous Lotuses
but with no trunk or rear visibility.
It wasn't all that practical.
Meanwhile,
(engine revving)
the new type 49 F1 car was
running a new Cosworth V8
and kickin' some serious,
serious tush all over the world.
It was the first car to use the engine
as a structural part of the chassis.
Lotus was also the first to introduce
big money sponsorships into
racing by painting their cars
with another company's colors and logos.
That is such a huge part of racing today.
They're the first guys to do it.
Sadly, this super town to Jim Clark
crashed in a Formula Two race
and didn't make it out alive.
It was a serious,
serious blow to the team.
But Graham Hill carried the Lotus torch
and won that world championship that year.
Around the same time, Lotus
also developed a gas turbine
powered car with all-wheel
drive for Indy racing.
And the first all-wheel drive F1 car.
I don't think these guys ever slept.
Chapman experimented with
small front and rear wings
on the Type 49 but made a
revolutionary breakthrough
with overall design and aerodynamics
with the next car in 1970.
The Type 72 was wedged shaped,
had inboard front brakes,
side mounted radiators,
torsion bar suspension,
and larger front and rear wings.
The changes were so significant
that it ran 12 mile per hour faster
than its predecessor, the Type 49.
(engine revving)
Once the suspension was sorted,
driver Jochen Rindt
won four races in a row
before dying in a qualifying crash.
Racing for Lotus kinda seemed
like a death wish at this point
but it was just accepted
that racing cars were risky business.
Emerson Fittipaldi jumped in
to the empty driver's seat
for the rest of the season
and held off Ferrari to win
the championship for rent.
That same year, the car
started wearing the colors
of their soon to be longtime
commercial sponsors,
the black and gold John
Player Special Livery,
that is now forever tied to Lotus.
You still need more proof
that Lotus were race car geniuses?
They were the first
constructor to win 50 F1 races.
They even beat Ferrari to punch
who've been racing for seven years longer.
Your last major F1 success came in 1978
after doin' a little extra
aeronautical research himself,
Colin passed his findings to the race team
who went and and shaped the undersides
of the new side pods like
upside down airfoils.
And holy burnoly principal Batman,
the airfoil shaped side
pods sped up the air
traveling underneath the
car creating a vacuum.
(engine revving)
Colin took things a step further
by mounting radiators so that
the hot air they expelled
flowed over the top of the car
and created even more down force.
The design was literally based on a World
War II fighter plane just with
everything flipped upside down.
After ironing out a few kinks,
the new aerodynamically optimized Type 79s
regularly annihilated the competition.
They came in first and
second more often than not
and Mario Andretti won both the Drivers'
and Constructors' Championships in one.
Around the same time,
the first Lotus Esprit
did a slow lot charter to seem.
Reaching 60 miles per hour
in eight to 10 seconds.
That might sound weird.
I know guys.
The mid to late '70s were bad years
for speed on four wheels but hey,
the Esprit was designed
by Giorgetto Giugiaro.
(engine revving)
This time Lotus used a mid-mounted
two liter inline-4 of their own design
that made 140 horsepowers.
In typical Lotus style, the whole car
only weighed 2,200 pounds
so it handled like a champ even though
it could've used...
Where is he?
They wanted to compete with Ferrari though
so in 1980 they bumped
up interior quality.
Gave it a spinny whoosh
engine making 210 horsepowers
and proper exotic car price tag.
In America, we didn't get these
for three more years because you know,
(beep) us, right?
Like almost all specialty sport
car companies of the time,
Lotus struggled to stay in business.
By the '80s, they were selling
fewer than 400 cars a year.
We make more than 400 videos a year.
No, we don't.
We probably do.
They turned to partnering
with other manufacturers
to make extra money and reduce
the prices of their own car.
They helped Toyota develop
the Mark II Supra Celica.
Yeah, I said Supra.
And Toyota gave Lotus engines
for their new Excel model.
But their more infamous connection
was with another U.K. based car maker.
- [Announcer] Live the dream today.
- As the DeLorean Motor Company
struggled to find someone to help them
make their new rear engine
stainless steel sports cars,
Lotus stepped up and said
that they could do it.
If you ever get to see a
naked DMC 12, lucky you.
It's obvious how closely it's
related to the Lotus Esprit.
Now shortly after Lotus
finished the project,
the DMCs went into production in Ireland.
Founder John Z. DeLorean
was busted in an FBI sting
for trafficking cocaine
and his company collapsed.
It was soon found that a
lot of tax payers money
had disappeared in the process
of developing those failed sports cars.
If you wanna learn more about that,
check out this link.
In the mean time, Lotus'
amazing new carbon fiber
twin chassis F1 car has
just been banned by the FIA.
Street car sales were way down
and the entire business was lookin' bleak.
The weight of all that must've
been really hard on Colin Chapman.
And on December 16th, 1982,
he died of a sudden heart attack.
But the conspiracy theorists
and I'm not sayin' that I'm one of them
but know it might be.
They wanna believe that
John DeLorean poisoned him
or that Colin faked his own
death and fled to Argentina.
If he'd been around for DeLorean's trial,
the judge said he would've thrown Colin
in jail for at least 10 years.
Whatever you believe, Colin's philosophy
of simplify then add lightness lived on.
The F1 team did pioneering work
with active suspensions which admittedly
are neither simple or light.
They did pretty well with drivers.
Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna
before those guys went on to greatness.
But the Lotus team itself
never reached the heights
it had when Chapman was alive.
The last Lotus F1 car to win a race
was Senna in the active suspension 99T
at the 1987 Detroit Grand Prix.
There's not much worth mentioning
about the F1 team after that so,
you know, we're not gonna.
The production side of
Lotus was also in trouble.
They didn't have any money.
The founder of British car
auctions, David Wickins,
routed up some investors in 1983
and saved the company
for a few more years.
General Motors took control in 1986
then offloaded it in
'93 to Romano Artioli,
a rich ass businessman who
also owned Bugatti at the time.
He bailed quickly and he sold Lotus
to Malaysian car maker, Proton, in 1996,
when Post Malone was only a year old.
While Lotus owners bounced around,
they made a few cool
cars but not much money.
The only front wheel-drive
Lotus ever made,
the Elan M100 Roadster, was launched
as a sports car for the masses.
Under GM's ownership, they poured
tons of money into development
but they never got it back.
This is a shame because a lot of people
called it the best handling
front-wheel drive car ever
but it cost $40,000 back then
and was powered by 130 horsepower
or 162 horsepower Isuzu four-cylinder.
(engine revving)
Sales were cannibalized by much cheaper
and more powerful Corvette and
the brand new rear-wheel drive Miata.
They sold fewer than 5,000
of them over six years
and only 559 of those were in the U.S.
Not exactly the mass market sales figures
that they were looking for.
Then there was the Lotus Carlton
named after the Fresh
Prince's cousin, Carlton,
which was a reworked boxed all sedan
powered by a turbocharged inline-6.
Making 377 horsepower and
419 pound feet of twerks.
Sick.
But,
thing caused 92 grand in 1990.
Desperate to make money, Lotus finally
went back to their roots in 1996.
The new mid-engine
convertible Elise arrived
with a fiber glass body shell
on a bonded aluminum chassis.
The series one had a
Rover 1.8 four-cylinder.
Makin' 118 ponies.
But it has super low center of gravity
and a 1,600 pound curb weight.
A whole slew of special editions followed.
With...
More power, baby.
(engine revving)
Then, Lotus decided to move
all traces of rear visibility
by giving the Elise a roof
and renaming it the Exige.
A revised series two
Elise came out in 2000
with more refined styling.
And by more refined, I mean looked
like a freakin' alien built it.
They ditched the Rover
engines for Toyota 1ZZ-FE
and 2ZZ-FE four-bangers and threw
a supercharged model into the mix.
The naturally aspirated 190 horsepower 2ZZ
pulled a mind bending
1.06 Gs on the skid pad.
Did not to 60 in four and a half seconds.
There were also a million and a half
versions of the series two
so I cannot possibly cover them all.
(engine revving)
The company honestly didn't expect
the Elise to be that big of a hit.
And it ended up saving Lotus' whole ass.
GM used the Elise to
make the Opel Speedster.
Hennessey used it as a
basis for the Venom GT
and Tesla built the
first gen roadster on it.
(engine revving)
In 2009, Lotus debuted their first
all new car since the Elise.
The slightly more practical Evora
with a tiny back seat that you might
fit your Springer Spaniel.
And a mid-mounted 3.5 liter Toyota V6.
They're still in production and now,
they're all supercharged.
They make 400 plus sleek yet buff horses.
(engine revving)
Today, Lotus is owned by Geely.
And the current talk is of
the upcoming fully electric
Evee-ga, E-viga, Eve-ja?
- [Producer] It's Evija.
- Evija.
The new Evija hypercar.
They're only gonna make about 130 of them
but this thing is supposed
to have 1,970 horsepowers
going into all four wheels.
It looks wild.
It's gonna have insane down force.
I don't thinK I'm gonna be able
to afford that one quite yet.
I only make a million dollars
for each of these episodes.
Lotus might be one one of, if not,
the spunkiest car companies
in the history of cars.
Did you know their powertrain department
designed and developed
GM's Ecotec four-cylinder.
They did the LT5 V8 for
the C4 Corvette ZR1 too.
They also designed the cylinder head
on the turbo charged
1991 Dodge Spirit R/T.
They held Aston Martin
with the DB9 chassis.
Helped Nissan tune the suspension
and handling of the new GTR.
And that's only a few examples.
Lotus has touched way more than you think
or way more than I thought
when we started researching this episode.
Through it all,
they made indelible
mark on both motor sport
and the entire automotive market.
- I always like to succeed
in everything I try to do
and I always say, I
always feel that I'm...
Yes, I suppose I am, I
always like to try to do
anything better than I
see it being done before.
- Hi, baby.
(smooching)
Can you hear her chewing? (laughing)
I love you.
And I love you.
(smooching)
Her cue is so cute.

What is the BEST Fuel to Use in Your Car or Truck and WHY

ChrisFix:

Hey guys ChrisFix here and today i'm gonna show you what fuel you should use in your car and
not only am I gonna show you but I'm also gonna explain why so we could stop all the myths and misinformation out there about
different fuels so no matter what vehicle you drive whether it's a luxury car a truck or SUV a
Compact car a hybrid a sports car a convertible or a muscle car if it uses gasoline
This video applies to you
Now at the gas pump there are a bunch of choices that you can make you could use the less expensive
Regular gas you could use the mid grade or you could use the more expensive premium or super gasoline
So which one do you pick no one wants to put the wrong fuel in their car and damage the engine get poor fuel economy
Or spend extra on fuel. That isn't gonna help them
so in this video
I'm gonna show you exactly what gas your car should use and
Why and I want to thank shell for supporting this video and for letting me tie up one of their pumps so I could film
And teach you guys what fuel is best for your car and once and for all?
Stop all the myths and give you guys the facts. So with that said let's get started
Here's what you're gonna see when you're walking up to a pump in this case
We have diesel here
Which we're not going to talk about in this video if you have a diesel truck or car
Don't put gasoline in it because it won't run
It'll damage the engine and vice versa
If you have a gasoline car don't put diesel in it, so don't make that mistake
But we're not gonna talk about this. What we are going to talk about is the gasoline so in America we have
87 which is regular 89, which is mid grade and 91 or 93
Which is premium or high test fuel these octane numbers tell you one thing and one thing only the resistance the fuel has to
Detonation or engine knock and I want to clear up a myth right away that I hear all the time
And that is the bigger the number the more energy that fuel has so you're gonna get better fuel economy because it has more energy
Or you're gonna get more power because as more energy and that's completely false
so all the different Octane's of gasoline have the same exact energy content 87 89 91 93 all
Have the same energy in them now
There's some myths out there that say certain Octane's burn fuel hotter or colder or faster or slower
And that's just not true these all burn the same temperature at the same speed
There's other myths out there say certain octane fuels burn cleaner or more
completely and that is also not true a more complete burn has less to do with the actual gasoline and more to do with the
fuel to air ratio inside the combustion chamber
So the octane ratings that you see at the pump are exactly that the octane rating of that fuel
87 and 93 have identical energy content
but the octane in 93 is higher than the octane in 87 and that is
Important octane is the resistance to detonation or engine knock and detonation and engine. I could destroy an engine
So in turbocharged engines supercharged engines or high compression engines like in this Corvette
You're more likely to get detonation. If you're using a lower octane fuel with forced induction or high compression. There's more heat
there's more pressure and that means the fuel is more likely to explode before it's supposed to and that detonation that knocked sounds like a
Bunch of marbles or ball bearings bouncing around inside the engine making metallic pinging noises, which is not good
Let me show you why here's the combustion process inside of an engine
Now when you're using the correct octane fuel the spark ignites the fuel and the flame starts at the spark and travels outwards
This is a smooth and even burn that creates pressure to push the piston
Downwards and then the exhaust gasses are forced out of the cylinder and the process repeats
Now, let's take a look at the combustion process when you use a fuel with a lower octane than the manufacturer requires
So the fuel and air mixture is pulled into the combustion chamber and the spark plug ignites
It just like normal
But as the flame moves outwards the pressure inside the cylinder increases and causes pockets of fuel to ignite
unevenly and this creates an explosion rather than a smooth burn and that metallic naki here is the
uneven explosion which could damage the piston piston rings
Valves head gasket and even the block so higher octane fuel prevents detonation in forced induction and higher compression engines
Now today's fuel-injected cars have something called a knock sensor
The knock sensor is like a doctor's stethoscope except for your car's computer
It actually listens for engine knock and when it hears the engine knock it tries to
Change the timing of the engine to prevent knock but you don't want to have engine knock in the first place you want to fill
Up with the proper fuel. So you prevent engine knock altogether
So your decision at the pump is pretty important the higher the octane fuel the we're resistant to engine knock
But that doesn't mean when you pull up to the pump
You should run the highest octane you could get because you might be throwing money away many cars run perfectly fine unregular gasoline
And I'm gonna show you in a little bit how to tell which fuel your car should be using so you don't put premium in
A car that could use regular and vice versa. You don't want to put regular in a car that needs premium
So I'll show you that in a second
but first the next myth I want to bust and that I hear all the time is that fuel from America isn't as good as
Fuel from Europe or Australia or other parts of the world?
And the reason why people think this is because we have 87 octane 89 93
now if you look at a pump in Europe
You see 95 octane and 99 octane since 95 and 99 are bigger numbers than what you can find at American gas pumps
It must mean the fuel here has higher octane
And actually this is misleading because in Europe they use run research octane number as their rating for octane in America
We use pond pump octane number for our rating so fuel from Europe and fuel from America are basically the same
Europe's 95 octane is like our 89 or mid-grade Europe's 99 or 98 octane is like our
93 octane or premium
So hopefully that clears that myth up the fuel here in America is very similar to the fuel in Europe
The octane rating system is different, but the octane is the same or very similar
Alright, so now you know octane is the main difference between the different fuels and how important octane is
But there's one other thing I want to talk about and that is fuel additives. So every brand has to add a fuel additive
It's set by the government to keep your engine clean
Each brand has their own proprietary ingredients and they all do it in their own specific ways
Some of them use the exact same amount of additive in each of their fuels I know
Specifically for Shell they use seven times more additive than required by law in their premium fuel. Now. What does this additive do?
well
It helps clean carbon deposits also known as gunk and sludge
If you don't have these additives in the fuel over time
Your engine will become a lot less efficient so you could get carbon deposits in your fuel injectors
You could get it on your Pistons or on the piston rings, and you could get it on your valves now
I'm not the type of person to just tell you these things
I like to show examples so you could really understand
So I'll show you dirty fuel injectors on the fuel injector tester here
But first let's take a look at the difference between clean and dirty valves here are four four valves from a port injected
four-cylinder motor
This is a completely clean valve to give you a reference of what a clean valve looks like. And here's a good comparison
This is a valve with the normal amount of carbon deposits on it
This right here is what you would find in a normal daily driven port injected vehicle
You can see there's some carbon deposits on the valve where it seats against the head
There's some carbon deposits of right here and there's some carbon deposits on the valve stem but nothing
Significant also if we take a look underneath the valve you can see there's carbon deposits under here as well
and again
This gives you a good idea of what you would normally
Find and here's a good example of a valve that has some carbon deposits on it
This isn't even that bed direct inject engines could be much worse with carbon deposits
Building up on the top of the valve right here
Now the problem with this gunk and sludge is it's gonna lower the efficiency of your vehicle
So fuel isn't gonna atomized with the air as well the air traveling over this valve isn't gonna travel as smoothly into the combustion chamber
The valve might not seat properly
Against the head and not seal properly
So you'll lose fuel economy and you'll lose some power and that's why it's important to make sure your engine stays clean
So you're able to see the difference between clean and dirty valves now?
Let me show you the difference between clean and dirty fuel injectors using this fuel injector tester
so here are four fuel injectors and you could see injector one and four have a good even spray pattern but injector three is a
Little dirty and the spray pattern isn't as strong an injector two is by far the dirtiest and has a very poor spray pattern
Here's the queen injector
number one next to the dirty injector number two
And you can see the difference in spray pattern the clean injector atomizes the fuel and makes a fine
Mist whereas the dirty injector has more of a stream
It's not atomizing the fuel and that will cause poor fuel economy and a decrease in power
Because the fuel isn't gonna burn as evenly like in the rest of the cylinders
So if you have a slight misfire lower fuel economy a decrease in power
There's a potentially of a clogged injector like this
And this is where using a good high-quality
fuel could help clean the injector and restore the proper spray pattern and
I think that's so cool to be able to see the fuel injectors and how they spray now the last thing I want to show
You is the top of a piston now, I don't have any Pistons because they're hard to give an engine
So instead we're gonna go into the engine using a special borescope camera
And I'm going to show you what it looks like in there and how the carbon deposits form on the piston head
So I took the spark plugs out and I'm gonna slide the borescope camera into the spark plug hole so we could see the top
Of the piston and you can see the dark spots on the piston. I'll circle them in red
These are the carbon deposits now a little bit of carbon deposits is normal this right here what you see is completely normal
But if this builds up too much
You could increase the compression of the engine or create hot spots which both of those could cause detonation
So that's how fuel additives help keep the engine clean from valves to injectors to piston heads
But shells v-power Nitro+ does a couple of other things. I just want to mention real quickly because it's pretty impressive
So let's take a look inside of an engine to see what the fuel additive does more specifically
Let's look at what the piston is doing. It's important to prevent wear and tear inside of the engine
So it lasts a long time and that's not easy because inside of an engine there's a lot of fast moving
Parts that are undergoing some pretty tough conditions
The engine oil is the main protector of all these moving parts, but now this new fuel additive actually helps out a little bit
It'll get on the cylinder wall and help protect the upper piston rings against friction and wear so that's some pretty cool technology
And there's one more benefit. I want to mention
So if your car doesn't get used a lot, maybe only take her out on track days
Otherwise she's getting stored or maybe you store your car for the winter and doesn't get started
You want to make sure you protect your fuel system from corrosion like you see on this valve and this fuel additive will actually do
That it'll help protect the metals from corroding so they don't end up looking like this
So now, you know about octane, you know about the fuel additives, but what does this all mean for your car?
What fuel should you use for your car? The answer is very simple no matter what car you drive
Use the manufacturers recommendation on what fuel to use they design the car. They design the engine they design the tune
so if they're saying to use premium
Use premium if they're saying to use regular use regular and there's three different methods you could use to find out what fuel your car
Should use let me show you them the first and easiest method is when you go to fill up just check behind your fuel door
And look for this sticker you can see right there
It says use 91 octane or greater. If you don't have this sticker here check the fuel filler cap
Sometimes it's written on there but not every car
Has it written on the filler cap or on the back of the fuel door?
For example in the drift staying there is nothing written on the back of this fuel door. There's also nothing the fuel cap
So how do you know what fuel you should use in this car?
simple grab your owner's manual
Flip to the back you can see right here. It says fuel choosing the right fuel filling your vehicle with fuel
Let's go to those pages and there you go
I can see right away use 87 octane use regular it also gives you other good information like filling up in a higher elevation
If you hear light knocking or heavy knocking and fuel quality different things like that
So it's worth the read but I know not everybody has an owner's manual
So there's one more place that you could check and that is on the dashboard of your vehicle
So get inside your car and take a look on your dashboard
You want to check over by your fuel gauge? You could see on the gauge. It says premium required
So this is another place you could look now notice that said premium required
there's a big difference in language between the word required and recommended when talking about fuel this car needs premium it is
required
So if you put regular in it, it could damage the engine but some cars say premium recommended for example
If we take a look at my Corvette underneath the fuel door, it says right here premium recommended
So what that does is that allows us to run regular fuel without any issues
So the cars knock sensor will adjust the timing so you don't get that
Detonation and you could run regular with no problem at all
You'll lose a little bit of fuel economy and probably a little bit of power
It might not be noticeable, but it is completely fine and completely safe to run regular
But again, it says premium recommended not required and also it's recommended which means it is better to run premium
But you don't have to now there are a couple situations where your car is supposed to run regular
But you need to run premium. For example, my truck has a hundred and fifty thousand miles on her
I was driving on the highway one day giving it some gas and all of a sudden I was hearing detonation
so I immediately pulled off filled up with premium and that detonation went away when I think what happened was there's carbon buildup inside the
Engine either increasing the compression ratio, or maybe it created a hot spot in a cylinder either way
I was getting detonation with the premium it went away
so in that type of scenario
You definitely don't want detonation run premium and show claims if you run their premium fuel for 2,500 continuous miles
It'll clean 70 percent of the carbon deposits in the injectors
And if you have a port injected engine 70 percent from the valves, which is pretty impressive
So not are you stopping that detonation, but you're cleaning it out now I could run regular fuel without any issues
So the problem went away, which is a good thing another situation
Where my car normally takes regular this is the drifts thing
She could take regular all day long
But you might need to change the premium if you start modifying the car or get it tuned in this case
I haven't got it tuned yet
but when I add the
Supercharger and go to the tuner you have to listen to what your tuner says if your tuner says run 93
Make sure you run 93
Otherwise, you're gonna get detonation and you could damage your engine so stock she runs regular just fine
But once you get a car tuned listen to your tuner and the last scenario I could think of is your car requires premium
But for whatever reason you fill it up with regular, maybe you hit the wrong button by mistake
You hit the 87 and you fill your car up with regular you don't catch it
Or maybe you're at a gas station
And they don't have premium and you're in the middle of nowhere and you need to get gas
Otherwise you won't be able to get to where you need to go. Don't worry
There is a solution after you fill up with the regular gas
what you would do is you would go out and you would buy one of these bottles of
Octane booster and you could get this at your local parts store
sometimes the
supermarket maybe even the gas station you're at and all you do is you empty it into the gas tank and this will boost the
octane of that regular fuel that you put in there so you won't damage your engine and if you have to drive to pick this
Stuff up just take it easy
Don't give the car a lot of gas and go slow and then knock sensors on the engine should adjust the timing so you don't
Damage your engine and there's one more thing. I want to mention in that is
e85 if you see EA t5 like this this doesn't mean 85 octane this means
85% ethanol and you only want to use this if you have a flex fuel vehicle again
You could check your owners manual to see if your vehicle is flex fuel or not
But make sure you do that because if your vehicle isn't flex fuel
You could damage the engine by running
E85 and I just want to mention that really quick so you don't fill up with the wrong fuel by mistake
EA t5 is 85 percent ethanol not 85 octane
but if you have any questions at all about
Anything I showed in this video or anything
I didn't show that you might think of feel free to comment below and I'll answer them but in summary use the fuel your car
manufacturer recommends if they say run regular run regular if they say run mid grade run mid grade if
It says premium required run premium if it says premium recommend you could choose but for my experience
Premium will let the car run better. You'll get a little more power and a little better fuel economy
Plus you won't have to worry about any detonation at all
But it really is that simple just use what the manufacturer recommends. So, there you go
now
You know what fuel you should use in your car and why?
We busted a couple of myths and I told you guys the truth and all the facts
So you have all this knowledge on what fuel you should use
Hopefully the video was helpful if it was remember to give it a thumbs up
If you're not a subscriber consider hitting that subscribe button and as always everything I used in this video is linked in the description

Chevy LS: Best Engine Swap Ever? | WheelHouse

Donut Media:

It’s a cliche at this point: “Dude, cool
project, got any plans for it?”
“Ah Dude, LS swap, throw a cam in there,
put the LS6 heads on it, it’s gonna be sick!”
“Oh, cool”.
Yeah, LS Swaps are a little played out.
But I wanted to find out why more people are
doing them than ever before.
From muscle cars, to drifters, to this Delorean.
Welcome to WheelHouse.
In the early 90s, GM knew that time was limited
for their small block V8.
Foreign competitors were selling cars with
less power but much better fuel economy.
But GM was like “Nah dude, we’re good”, And
got to work redesigning their workhorse small
block.
The LS1 debuted in 1997 with the release of
the new C5 Corvette.
The block was made of aluminum
which was super light, and the 5.7 liter engine
made 345 horsepower and 350 pounds of torque.
Drivers and critics were
like, yo, this LS thing is sick.
Then in 1999, Chevy released a cast Iron version
for use in trucks and SUVs, which they’ve
since branded “Vortec”.
In 2001, Chevy updated the LS1's design with the
release of the LS6.
It was stronger, better flowing, and had higher
compression.
But why’d Chevy go from LS1 to LS6?
Well, the LS6 was used in the 2001 Corvette
Z06.
So you have LS6, and Z06, I guess that makes
sense.
Anyway, the LS1, LS6 and every other LS all
share a common architecture.
Ultimately, this means that parts between
engines are stupid interchangeable as long
as you do some research.
I can’t tell you who the first person was
to LS swap their car- BECAUSE THEY’RE DEAD.
But I can tell that whoever they are, ignited
a trend that swept the US.
People will LS Swap literally anything.
Muscle cars make up a large majority of LS
usage.
For decades the go-to small block for muscle
cars was the Chevy 350, I mean I had one in
my Trans Am, but people when people started
seeing the benefits of fuel injection, they
started putting the LS in their project cars
instead.
But what if you don’t want muscle car?
The Nissan 240SX is a prime example, with
tons of Formula Drift competitors using the
LS in their race cars.
The Miata is another good option.
Who wouldn’t want a lightweight roadster
with a V8 up front?
That’s what the Shelby Cobra was!
But Nolan, the 240 and Miata are so predictable,
everyone and their mom does LS Swaps on those
cars.
I hear you.
Here are some of the craziest swaps we were
able to find.
This is a 1936 Cord Westchester, notable,
for being one of the world’s first front
wheel drive cars That’s right, this quirky
looking pre-war sedan has a Corvette engine
sending power through a Porsche
transmission to the front wheels.
It’s nuts.
But that’s nothing!
This guy, Connor Hofford, stuffed an LS into
his 1984 VW GTI.
His car debuted at last year’s SEMA show,
and blew people away with it’s custom tube
chassis, that was pretty much all hand built.
Thing is just insane.
Connor, if you’re watching, let’s hang
out dude.
Bring the car by the office, we would love
to see it.
And it doesn’t end there.
This Delorean has an LS in the back!
It’s finally as fast as it looks!
Okay so we know a little bit of the LS’s
History, and why it’s a good engine, and
that a lot of people have put them in a wide
variety of cars that aren’t Chevy’s.
But none of that really tells us why they
do.
Luckily, there’s a pretty simple answer.
The LS is small.
And I’m not talking displacement.
When someone says that an engine is big like
a 427 cubic inch, they’re not talking about
the engine’s physical size.
Engines are basically air pumps, and displacement
refers to the amount of air that passes through
an engine when each piston goes from top to
bottom dead center..
So if we use the LS1 as an example, its a
5.7 liter engine.
It’s got 8 cylinders, a stroke of 3.62 inches,
and a bore of 3.898.
We take those measurements and put them into
this equation, and we get 347 cubic inches.Convert
that to metric and our engine breathers
5.7 liters of air.
So the LS keeps a typical V8 displacement,
while being physically smaller than its competitors.
How?
well most new engines use overhead camshafts which
allow for more aggressive valve lift at higher
RPMs and the use of more than two valves per
cylinder.
Chevy didn’t bother doing that that.
The LS still has it’s cam in- block with
two valves per cylinder, just like your grandma’s
old Buick Special.
And since the cams aren’t hanging out in
the cylinder heads, the engine is shorter
in height and skinner too.
Conventional wisdom says that overhead cam
engines should easily outperform in-block
cam engines because they can put more air
into the cylinders.
But more air is no good if it has a hard time
getting into the cylinder.
So Chevy decided to focus their energy on
airflow.
And that’s why, despite having fewer valves,
the LS is one of the best breathing engines
ever made.
It just breathes really, really well.
And that’s it’s main advantage.
So, it has a physical size advantage, stellar
airflow, and keeps the conventional V8 displacement.
This makes it the perfect candidate for swapping
into oddball cars like the Miata, Delorean
and that GTI.
It all comes down to size.
Going back the 240SX, a built LS will be the
same size and sometimes lighter than the stock
turbocharged four cylinder engine.
And there’s no turbo lag.
You might be like me, thinking about which
car you would swap an LS into.
You might have something in your driveway
right now that would make a perfect project.
But how do you choose which LS to get?
It can be pretty challenging there’s like...a lot
of them.
Well if you’re on a shoestring you should
look for a 5.3 liter Vortec.
Remember these are LS engines but they’re made of
cast iron so they’re about 100 pounds heavier
than the aluminum ones.
BUT, they’re everywhere, and that means
they’re cheap.
a lot of magazines say you can find these
things for like 500 bucks.
Not a bad place to start.
Maybe you want to turbo a V8.
You should go look for a 4.8L Vortec.
It’s another cast iron engine, and it’s
the smallest of the LS's, but smaller displacement
means more meat on the cylinder walls, and
that means you can run a ton of boost without
worrying about cracking the block.
The 4.8 is a great option for people looking
for budget boost.
But what if you want to be completely insane
and build an LS swapped Honda?
Well you can do that too.
The LS4 was designed with front wheel drive
cars in mind like the Impala SS.
I found this build online by Ryan Standke,
where he transplanted an LS4 into his Aruca
RSX AND boosted it.
This thing is insane.
And I think of all the builds we’ve talked
about today it’s my favorite, because it’s
so wrong but so right.
So as you can see, there’s limitless potential
for the LS swap.
And yeah, it’s a popular thing to do right
now but for good reason.
I’ll admit I was a hipster about this LS
Swap thing before I looked into it.
I’m not even a Chevy guy but who doesn’t
love the sound of a V8?
(Righteous V8 noises)
Who doesn’t want that power in their car?
(More righteous V8 noise)
It’s a no brainer.
And the only limit is your own creativity.
(dat good good V8 rumble)
Do you have an LS swap in your car?
I’d love to see it, post it down in the
comments!
The LS is nowhere close to being the first
engine but if you want to know what the first
car was go back to last week’s episode right
here.
If you like the Corvette, check out the up
to Speed on the Corvette.
If my Mustang ever dies, i would definitely
think about LS swapping it, I think that would
be hilarious.
Ford, Chevy guys go fight in the comments.
Thanks for watching, bye :)

Suspension | How it Works

Donut Media:

(hip-hop music)
- "All I wanna do is see ya
bounce with me, bounce with me."
Those are the words of young Lil Bow Wow
from the song "Bounce With Me"
("Bounce With Me" by Lil' Bow Wow)
The concept of bouncing is
great in this classic song.
You know where bounce is bad?
Suspensions!
(electronic music)
There's billions of types of
suspension, not literally,
but I'm not gonna go
look up the exact number
like some kind of a nerd
so maybe not billions,
but there's a lot of
different types of suspension.
There's suspensions like when
you're suspended from work
for biting the camera man,
there's suspensions like
the suspension of disbelief
which allows you to believe
in make believe stuff
like Superman can fly or
life's gonna work out,
and there's the suspension
system on your vehicle,
and those vehicle suspensions
have a huge variety of types as well.
There's more types of vehicle suspensions
than the types of DNA strands
that were found in my bedroom
nine years ago on that
fateful night in September.
(crowd gasps)
That number was three.
We got a knife.
With such a wide variety of types,
we're barely gonna
scratch the surface here
and touch on the basics in a
few of the most common types.
So all of you in the comments
saying I forgot about
this thing or that thing,
nah, I didn't, I know all about it,
In fact, I just left
it out to tick you off.
(crowd booing)
So get off my back, David.
Alright, when they invented
the car it was awesome,
they're all smoking cigars
and patting each other on the
back, eating some cold cuts
and congratulating each others like,
"This will revolutionize travel.
"The piston engine will
get us places so fast."
"I love cold cuts."
But then, record scratch,
(record scratches)
they realized all the power
generated by an engine's useless
if the driver can't control the car.
(engine revving)
And almost as soon as the four stroke
internal combustion engine was mastered,
engineers went to work on
perfecting the suspension.
Horse drawn carriages had suspensions,
but they only went so fast.
You hit those same bumps in
the road at a greater speed,
it's gonna get a lot bouncier.
- Ow!
- The job of a car suspension is to one,
maximize the friction between
the tires and road surface
during acceleration,
cruising, and braking,
and two, provide steering
stability with good handling,
and three, ensure the
comfort of the passengers.
If all roads were perfectly flat
with no irregularities or
bumps or waves or anything,
suspension wouldn't be as necessary,
but unlike me, even fresh laid pavement
has some imperfections.
Now, let's get science-y
up in this garage.
Newton's Law of Motion
says forces have both
magnitude and direction.
A bump in the road causes the
wheel to move up and down,
perpendicular to the
road surface, direction.
The magnitude depends on whether the wheel
is striking a giant bump or a tiny speck.
The wheel experiences
a vertical acceleration
as it passes over an imperfection,
and that means the wheel goes up.
Without an intervening structure,
the vehicle's vertical energy
is transferred to the car's frame,
which moves the same direction, up.
The wheels can lose contact
with the road completely
and then, 'cause of gravity,
the wheels would slam back
down into the road surface,
and that is bounce, brother.
And if there was no gravity,
that bump could send
you hurdling into space
until you go out into hyper
space and see the event horizon.
Spooky.
You need a system that absorbs the energy
of the vertically accelerated wheel,
allowing the frame and
body to ride undisturbed
while the wheels follow bumps in the road,
and that's all part of vehicle dynamics,
the study of forces at
work on a moving car.
Auto engineers come at this
from two perspectives, ride,
(engine revving)
a car's ability to smooth out
a bumpy road and handling, oop,
and handling, a car's
ability to safely accelerate,
brake, and corner
and those break down
into these principles,
road isolation, the
vehicle's ability to absorb
or isolate road shock from
the passenger compartment,
cornering, the ability of a
vehicle to travel a curved path,
and road holding, the degree
to which a car maintains
contact with the road surface
in various types of directional changes
and in a straight line.
For example, the weight
of a car will shift
from the rear tires to the
front tires during braking
because the nose of the
car dips toward the road.
This type of motion is known as dive.
The opposite effect, squat,
occurs during acceleration,
which shifts the weight of the car
from the front tires to the back.
These are the challenges
that the suspension system has to handle.
Like I said earlier,
there's a buttload of suspension varieties
and a car can, and usually does,
have a different type of
suspension on the front and back,
and in those you can either
have a dependent system,
where a rigid axle binds the wheels,
or an independent system where the wheels
are permitted to move independently,
but the three fundamental
components of any suspension
are springs, dampers, and anti sway bars.
Those are the bars that hate
former MTV News reporter, Sway.
Wait, oh no, I'm being told that
they're actually just used
along with shock absorbers
or struts to give a moving
automobile additional stability.
Sway bars a metal rod
that spans the entire axle
and effectively joins each side
of the suspension together.
You suck, Sway.
Let's get back to talking about
one of three fundamental
components of suspensions,
and my third favorite season, spring.
Now there's a couple of types
of springs that can be used,
there's leaf springs,
several layers of metal
bound together to act as a single unit,
and these are usually
used on a lot of trucks.
They haven't been on a
ton of US cars since '85.
There's torsion bars, here
one end of a bar is anchored
to the vehicle frame
and the other end is attached to wishbone.
The wishbone acts like a lever that moves
perpendicular to the torsion bar.
When the wheel hits a bump,
vertical motion's
transferred to the wishbone,
and then, through the levering
action, to the torsion bar.
The torsion bar then
twists along it's axis
to provide the spring force.
These are more common on European cars,
and there's coil springs,
basically a heavy duty torsion
bar coiled around on an axis.
These are the most common.
Anything above the springs
and supported by 'em on
the vehicle is sprung mass.
Anything below the spring
between the springs and the road,
like the wheels, for
example, is unsprung mass.
Unsprung mass was my nickname in college,
or it was until that fateful night
three years ago in September.
Spring stiffness effects
how the sprung mass responds
while the car's being driven.
Loosely sprung cars, such as luxury cars,
swallow bumps for a smooth ride,
but they're prone to dive and squat
during braking and acceleration,
and can have body sway,
or roll during cornering.
Tightly sprung cars, like sports cars,
are less forgiving on bumpy roads,
but they minimize body motion
so they can be driven
aggressively, even around corners.
(engine revving)
(ding)
But you can't use just
springs, you silly goose.
Springs absorb energy
but they stink when it
comes to dissipating it,
that's why you need dampers.
One common dampening
structure is a shock absorber.
Shock absorbers slow down
and reduce the magnitude
of vibratory motion
by turning the kinetic
energy of suspension movement
into heat energy that can be dissipated
through hydraulic fluid.
A shock absorber's upper
mount connects to the frame
and the lower mount connects to the axle.
In a twin tube design,
the upper mount is
connected to a piston rod
which is connected to a piston
and sits in a tube filled
with hydraulic fluid.
Feels like I said that.
The inner tube's known
as the pressure tube,
and the outer tube is
known as the reserve tube.
The reserve tube stores
excess hydraulic fluid.
When a wheel hits a bump in the road
and causes the spring to coil and uncoil,
energy of the spring is
transferred to the shock absorber
through the upper mount,
down through the piston rod,
and into the piston.
Orifices perforate the piston
and allow it to leak through
as the piston moves up and
down in the pressure tube.
Because these orifices
are relatively tiny,
only a small amount of
fluid, under great pressure,
passes through.
This slows down the piston,
which in turn, slows down the spring.
Shock absorbers work in two cycles,
the compression cycle
when the piston moves down
compressing the hydraulic fluid
in the chamber below the piston,
and the extension cycle,
when the piston moves toward
the top of the pressure tube
compressing the fluid in the
chamber above the piston.
All modern shock absorbers
are velocity sensitive.
The faster the suspension moves,
the more resistance the
shock absorber provides,
so they can adjust to road conditions
and control all the unwanted motion
that can occur in a moving vehicle,
including bounce, sway,
ah, I hate that guy,
brake dive and accelerating squat.
Another common dampening
structure is the strut.
Basically it's a shock absorber mounted
inside a coil spring.
Struts provide two jobs,
dampening function like
the shock absorbers,
and structural support for
the vehicle's suspension.
They do a bit more than shock absorbers,
which don't support vehicle weight,
they only control the speed
at which the weight is
transferred in a car,
not the weight itself.
The Mac Daddy of struts
is the MacPherson strut
invented by Earle S. MacPherson.
No one knows what the S stands
for except for Wikipedia,
which says is stands for Steele, cool.
The MacPherson strut consists
of a single control arm
in a strut assembly
which allows tire and wheel
to move upward and downward.
Its design allows for a
reduction in a number of parts,
lowering unsprung mass, as
well as smooth driving comfort.
These are pretty small,
not too complicated,
and not too expensive,
so they're pretty common.
They don't take up much
space horizontally,
so they're super common
in front suspensions
on the front wheel drive vehicles.
They do take up a lot of
space vertically, though.
Another common type of front
independent suspension,
the double wishbone
suspension or an A-arm,
doesn't take up as much space vertically,
but is a horizontal hog.
That one guy in the comment section.
While there's several different
possible configurations,
this design typically uses
two wishbone shaped arms
to balance the wheel.
Each wishbone, which has two
mounting positions to the frame
and one at the wheel, has a
shock absorber and a coil spring
to absorb vibrations.
Double wishbone suspensions
allow for more control
over the camber angle of the wheel
which describes the degree
to which the wheel tilts in and out.
(car squeaking)
They also help to minimize roll and sway,
and they provide for more
consistent steering feel.
That's why double wishbone
suspension's so common
on the front wheels of larger cars.
(claps)
Real quick,
let's look at a couple of rear suspensions
and a split second picture
of my belly button.
These are usually a little simpler
'cause you don't need to
integrate the steering
for a dependent rear suspension,
if a solid axle connects with
the rear wheels of a car,
then it's pretty simple,
based either on a leaf
spring or a coil spring.
Leaf springs clamp
directly to the drive axle,
and the ends of the leaf springs
attach directly to the frame.
The shock absorber's attached at the clamp
that holds the spring to the axle.
You can have the same basic
design with coil springs
but in this case, the
spring and shock absorber
can be mounted as a single
unit or as separate components.
When they're separate, the
springs can be much smaller,
which reduces the amount of space
that the suspension takes up.
For independent rear suspensions,
if both the front and back
suspensions are independent,
then all the wheels are mounted
and sprung individually,
resulting in what some ads call
four wheel independent suspension.
Any suspension that can be
used in the front of a car
can be used on the rear
and versions of the
front independent systems
described in the previous section
can be found in rear axles.
Of course, the rear of the
car, the steering rack,
the assembly that keeps
everything together
and lets ya turn, well, it's not there,
so that means rear independent suspensions
can be simplified versions
of the front ones,
but the basic principles are the same.
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