Category: car accessories

Car Window Tinting : Make Your Muscle Car Look Cool

Most of us muscle car guys love the looks our cars get when we drive down the street.  With a loud exhaust and a big block under the hood there is nothing better than the sound the car makes with the top down on a nice summer day. While performance is important, we should not overlook the looks of the car. Most car accessories are expensive and can cost thousands of dollars, after all these are not cheap cars, but what if I told you that your ride could look 10 times better for just a couple hundred dollars.

That’s right.

If you have never seen a car window tinting job then you should do a before and after view.  See what the car looked like before the tint and then look after and see what a difference it makes.  The dark windows contrast well with the paint on the car and make it look really good.

It is hard to put in words how the car looks with the tint on the windows, but trust me on how you will be satisfied.  Do not just go to any old shop and ask for a cheap tint job though.  Be sure to check references and the local B.B.B. to ensure the company is reputable. Shopping by cost alone can be very risky, unless the company has a good track record.

While tint looks good on all paint schemes, white and black cars seem to benefit the most.  White cars really contrast well with the window tint and black cars make the whole car look uniform and very intimidating.

The one thing to note though is that all local laws vary on car window tinting restrictions. Check with your local authorities before tinting your windows or you could get fined. However, many people seem to choose to tint them very dark and risk getting a fine. The choice is yours in the end.

EFIE and the HHO Generator

When oil spiked in price and hovered around $150/barrel, gasoline crashed up through the $4/gallon level. This led to a flurry of activity seeking alternative automotive fuels. One approach was the use of an on board hydrogen generator system. A cottage industry arose, selling hydrogen generator kits complete with videos detailing how make a system ostensibly to allow a person to drive a car fueled by water. While some such systems did work, their eco-contribution was largely increased performance and mileage rather than replacement of gasoline. That result sufficed, however, to establish an industry making kits to create hydrogen, formally HHO, for cars and trucks.

However it soon became apparent that creating hydrogen was only part of the equation. To make the endeavor worth while, or even to work at all, the HHO has to be mixed with gasoline or diesel fuel in proper amounts. There are sensors in the exhaust system that measure oxygen content; if it too high, the computers controlling the fuel mixture increase the proportion of gasoline in the mix. Because HHO adds oxygen to the fuel mixture, there is more of it in the exhaust so the system adds more gasoline , thus defeating all efforts to save fuel.

This is where the efie comes in to play. It is hooked up to both the sensor and the vehicle’s computer. It essentially fools the car’s computer into not making an adjustment that sends more gas to the combustion chamber. This allows the HHO system to improve fuel efficiency. Because the HHO adds oxygen, there is a cleaner burn and less toxic emission. These initial steps, fostered by the classic home grown inventor, have matured to the extent that it seems to be feasible enough to be adapted into conventional automotive manufacture. While the cost of gasoline and diesel fuel has calmed down from the dizzying heights the sparked the idea, fuel is growing increasingly scarce and may well lead to the inclusion of an HHO generator and EFIE as a standard part of new vehicles.