SUPERCHARGING BOOSTS FREE HORSEPOWER

SUPERCHARGING BOOSTS FREE HORSEPOWER
Hemmings Motor News’ Mike McNessor does a deep dive on SUPERCHARGING BOOSTS FREE HORSEPOWER, starting in 1906! When you discuss maximizing an engine’s volumetric efficiency, you are: –Boring everybody else at the party (as usual); –Explaining to your spouse why it’s crucial that you drop a couple of grand on a supercharger for your sports car; –Engaging in a 100-plus-year-old quest to get the most out of an internal combustion engine. If you said all of the above, you’d be correct. ...
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ROAD & TRACK: BRIDGESTONE POTENZA TIRES!

Bridgestone’s Potenza tires delivers maximum performance on the street as well as the track. It’s the do-everything road & track tire. Truth be told, I’m a Bridgestone Potenza tire believer! When it was time to change tires on my ’06 Ford GT a couple of years ago, I went with Bridgestone rather than Goodyear Eagle Supercar FI replacements. While Bridgestone does not make an exact replacement tire for the Ford GT, it offers Potenza Pole Position 265/40 ZR18 (N1 Porsche 911, Y-speed rated)) f...
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‘15 RC-F COUPE: MUSCLE CAR WITH A LEXUS HEART!

The aero-inspired RC-F wears Lexus’ angriest face yet and has the horsepower to back it up, blogs Dan Scanlan. The “F” stands for Fuji Speedway, where Lexus conducts high-speed testing and development. And with 467 horsepower available, some straight roads became speedways when we let the RC-F howl. 
 We thought the IS-F was the king of the Fs with its 5-liter V-8’s 416 horsepower, a bellowing basso exhaust note over 3,500-rpm, then 60-mph in 4.8 seconds and 100-mph in 10.8 seconds. Then ...
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