AnzoUSA Lights for Your Honda Accord

I'm now in the process of selecting and loading various products on my web sites. One of the first ones loaded are some special lights for Honda Accords. Why choose these? Because changing the looks of your headlights or taillights changes the look of your car and gives you that custom look with very little work.

In looking around at what type of lights are available, one brand was mentioned by various automotive sources. This was AnzoUSA. This is a USA manufacturing company that has been making aftermarketing lighting products for over 30 years.

They have been certified by ISO and have ISO 9002 factories. What are you looking for besides great style? Well if I'm adding a product to my car, I want it to last and not have to replace it. The AnzoUSA company has built special test facilities that will simulate rain, humidity and various shocks that your car might experience in normal day to day driving. If you are interested in LED products then the shock treatments simulate off-road driving. I'm confident that these products will last you for the lifetime of the car.

You have a choice of headlights that will give you up to 30% performance improvement and two different types of tail lights for Honda Accords.

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Honda Accord AnzoUSA Lights

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Good News for The Telsa Electric Car Company

Recently almost the entire management staff at Telsa was replaced, and the owner mentioned that the cars were being sold at less than cost.

The price of the roadster has gone up to $109,000 which is good news for them. The bad news was that they failed to to complete a $100-million round of venture funding and had turned to low-cost federal loans as an option for financing.

Now more good news. The Daimler Company,which owns Mercedes-Benz, has just purchased 10% of Telsa and acquired a seat on the board of directors. Daimler has also ordered 1,000 of the advanced lithium-ion batteries from Telsa. This new joint venture means that Telsa should be around for a while, and we may really see the $57,400 Model S electric sedan. Tesla plans to build the car, which gets 160 to 300 miles on a single charge-up. It has been shown as a prototype, but without some type of additional funding chances were that the car would not have been built.

Telsa is unique in that they produce a pure electric car and not a hybrid that uses both electric motors and a gasoline engine.

Recently the company was featured on a TV show and all of the owners seemed to love their new car. I remember the interview with one former Corvette owner. No more corvettes for him, he was now sold on the Telsa roadster. High praise indeed.

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Aftermarket Honda Accord AEM Cold Air Intake

Aftermarket Honda Accord AEM Cold Air Intakes

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Friction Circle | Winning the Grip War

Yesterday I mentioned the contact patch, which is the area of your tires which touch the road surface. Today I would like to take that concept up another level.

I'm going to try and describe this concept without any drawings, so please bear with me. The Friction Circle or Traction Circle is the idea that the total grip of your tires can be spent in acceleration, braking or cornering, or a combination of these.

The idea is used by race car driving schools to help you visualize what is happening to your tires as you try and go as fast as possible around a track.

Let's imagine that you have a car that will grip the road with a 1 G tire. Visualize that your car in sitting in the center of a circle. An arrow pointing North represents the maximum braking possible or 1 G. The arrow pointing South represents the maximum acceleration your tire can provide without breaking loose or again 1 G. East and West are arrows representing the maximum cornering force of 1 G before you again break away.

The idea here is that you have 1 G of Friction under your control, and you can spend it any way you want. Accelerating down the straight you can spend it all with no problems. In the same way you can brake with 1G. You can also corner left or right with 1 G maximum. Now assume you are coming off of a straight with hard braking, if you start to turn into a corner, will you make it or slide off the track?

The answer is if you are braking at the maximum 1 G you have no grip left to turn in. You must relax the braking and the amount under the 1 G is available for cornering. In the same fashion if you are going around a corner and approaching the exit and you need to accelerate the same problem comes up. If you are using all of the tire's friction holding you on the track in the corner then you have nothing left to accelerate with.

Racing drivers overlap the different phases of braking, turning and applying power to try and make the tire work as hard as possible for as long as possible. It's the skillful use of this overlap, releasing the brakes and feeding in the throttle to just the right degree not to overwhelm the available grip, which makes the best use of the "traction circle".

The winning driver approaches the limits closer, than the other drivers, without exceeding them and losing control of the car.

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