The Enzo Ferrari has the engine in a compartment behind the driver -- the mid-engine design that is almost universal among high-performance supercars. The engine itself, which was designed specifically for this car, is a 366-cubic-inch (6.0 liter), aluminum-block V-12, with four valves pe...
They function just like shims in cabinetry: If the kitchen floor of an old house is a little crooked, the cabinet installer will add a couple of thin, wooden shims to level out the cabinets. Brake shims work much the same way to adjust otherwise normal brakes. On the most basic level,...
When a driver wants to change from one gear to another in a standard stick-shift car, he first presses down the clutch pedal. This operates a single clutch, which disconnects the engine from the gearbox and interrupts power flow to the transmission. Then the driver uses the stick shift to...
After sliding loose the physical key and back cover from the old fob, then unscrewing the battery-compartment cover and removing the watch battery below it, I tried a variety of tools to force open its glued-together halves. The one that finally proved persuasive was a razor blade carefully ...
The CO2 inflator is like the race car of pumps. It uses special cartridges to pump air super fast. Great for quick fixes, but you’ll need to grab more cartridges if you use it a lot. Hand Pumps For those always on the move, the hand pump is your little buddy. It’s small and ...
“Air gap” in a motor refers to the distance between the permanent magnets and the stator. Magnetic force degrades non-linearly with distance, so reducing the gap between the two significantly boosts the power of the motor. A smaller air gap not only makes the motor more powerful, it also...
His father was a retired racing driver who opened Autoresearch, a race-car-building shop, where Dan cut his teeth as a metal fabricator. Engineering school followed, then SCCA Showroom Stock racing, and that combination landed him suspension development jobs at two different automakers. His ...
That meeting set the stage for what would be a year of contrasting takes from the company’s vocal workforce. As Google faced some of the most intense pressure its experienced since going public two decades ago, so too did CEOSundar Pichai, who took the helm in 2015. ...
The main idea is to divert the energy of the impact away from the driver by allowing the structure of the vehicle to absorb most of the force. The windows are bigger, too; a feature designed to allow the driver to escape from the car more quickly. In addition, the doors are filled ...
” Hall said. “On a race car, you’re trying to optimize downforce while not adding too much drag. On the bike, you’re basically doing the same thing. You’re really trying to reduce the side force and the disturbance on the rider while at the same time not increasing drag too ...