FAST CARS MADE FASTER

Back in the day almost every manufacture tried to make fast cars. Plenty of the cars had Hemi’s and V8’s

in them; that’s an easy way to build some fast cars. As time has grown, so has technology. As technology

has grown, so have these fast cars. They have been getting faster and faster as time went on. They have

been made that any top 10 list of fast cars you find will have a minimum speed of 200 M.P.H. I don’t

know if you understand how fast that is but that is 3 miles in a minute. That means every 20 seconds

your are completing a mile.

The average car today hits a top speed of 130 M.P.H , but it’s a journey to get there. With the fast cars

mentioned in the list , it’s a piece of cake. Nothing a twin-turbo’d V10 motor cannot accomplish. These

fast cars travel so fast and accelerate so hard that it feels like you are glued to the drivers seat, or

whatever seat you may be sitting in.

What sorts of technology has been helping decrease our already fast cars zero to sixty times and

increasing their acceleration.

One piece to help solve that puzzle is forced induction. To increase the amount of power a car has, you

must introduce a greater amount of air into the engine. This allows for the combustion to be bigger and

stronger; which in the end produces more power. How can we do this when our intake manifold is at its

limit? You create something called a turbocharger. A turbocharger uses the exhaust gasses of the engine

to spin a turbine which, in-turn, spines a compressor wheel. This compress wheel draws in air and forces

it into the engine. This is how you make a couple of fast cars even faster.

Installing a turbocharger doesn’t mean the puzzle is solved. Since our fast cars engine is not used to that

strong of a combustion, we must improve it’s strength but keep it lightweight. Technology has helped us

find materials, and production procedures, strong and light enough for our fast cars job. This production

procedure is called forging, and it helps make a material even stronger.

Let us give father time the credit he well deserves for our production of fast cars. Time and experience

has allowed us to test what works and doesn’t work when it comes to building fast cars. We have

realized that exhaust system are very restrictive, that we need more air, the valve open and close timing

can be adjusted and much much more.

Father time has allowed us to learn everything we know about fast cars today. Remember, that we do

not know everything and technology has plenty of room to grow and make our fast cars even faster. If

you want to see some fast cars made faster, go check it out at: http://www.autonest.org/featuring/fast-

cars-gone-wild. If you have any questions about fast cars, ask it on AutoNEST!