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Archive for October, 2008

I love racing at the local drag strip. It’s a wonderful way to see what your car can do or how a new modification works out. It’s also much safer to race on a track than to test performance on the street, and it’s a great place to hang out and shoot the breeze with fellow racing enthusiasts. But if you’d expect just a bunch of old muscle cars and modified imports at the track you’d be surprised. I’ve seen Porsches, BMWs, AMG Mercedes and lots of Audis and Volkswagens. Go to the track and you’re as likely to see a guy in a suit perusing the boost display on his twin-turbo 12-cylinder Benz as you’ll see a guy tweaking the carbs on his 68 Camaro.

It’s interesting to see so many upper level cars at racing events these days, but that’s all part of a luxury car tuning revolution. Be it entry-level luxury vehicles from Volkswagen and Audi or more expensive models from Mercedes Benz, Audi, Porsche or others, it’s become fashionable to tweak those vehicles to get even more performance from their already powerful, high-revving engines. Simple software updates can add 10-35% extra power just by optimizing engine tuning. See, most cars are tuned very conservatively so that they run well under any conditions and with any type of gas. Software tuning can unleash extra power simply and easily and without the help of more traditional performance car parts. If your car has a turbo, performance increases achievable with ECU modification are even larger. This is why catalogs for Audi parts, Volkswagen parts, Mercedes parts, BMW parts, and other luxury car parts include Electronic Control Unit, or ECU, programming, performance chips and other ways to optimize the vehicles’ computers.

But performance is not everything that is available via programming of the car’s Electronic Control Unit, or ECU. Since the ECU monitors several dozen sensors, it can provide much more information than is normally displayed. And unlike in the past where analog gauges could only show one piece of information (like oil pressure or battery voltage), most of today’s cars have screens and consoles that can be used to show all sorts of information. One example is the actual speed of the vehicle. Why would you need that when the car already has a speedometer? Because many speedometers are wildly inaccurate, making you feel like you’re going much faster than your real speed.

Information available via software add-on modules varies from brand to brand and model to model. It may include 0-60 mph and 1/4-mile acceleration times, more elaborate boost pressure display, air-fuel ratio, power and torque, or more technical information such as ignition advance, knock sensor data, cam angle, short and long term fuel trim, injector duty cycle and more.

More interestingly yet, these easily installed software control modules can be used to override annoying, limiting or non-intuitive stock programming of how the sunroof, windows, seats, mirrors and other parts of the car operate. It may even be possible to change the way the key remote works. Or you can do things like adding a special horn sequence while you’re in reverse. The possibilities are endless, ranging from performance to convenience, from customized boost display to comprehensive sensor readings, and from simple plug-in modules to extensive ECU modification. So next time you search for luxury performance car parts, keep in mind that tuning starts and ends with the car’s computer these days.

With only one year of development Grant Theft Auto III followed and it was an immediate success with all PC racing game players. So what happens when Rockstar North takes two year to develop the next game in the series? The Grand Theft Auto San Andreas game happened. Larger than life and packed with action the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas game takes the player not through one city but through a whole state with three distinct cities and hundreds of miles of countryside to quench the players thirst for exploration.

The beauty of the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas game is that it takes into account all the skills that a player has mastered with the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City PC racing game and with the Grand Theft Auto III game and still manages to be amazingly challenging. In this edition of the Grand Theft Auto game Carl “CJ” Johnson, the main character, returns to the city of Los Santos after the five years he has spent in Liberty City to re-unite his gang and unravel the plot behind the murder of his mother.

To set the stage properly for the action that is to follow, upon his arrival in San Andreas he is set up by corrupt policemen for the murder of one of their own. As any impassioned player would expect, the solution to all the problems in the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas game involves a lot of action and violence. This is why most players consider it to be the best PC racing game they have ever played. The complex story, the abundance of action and adventure and even the sheer size of the terrain make the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas game a “must have” for any aficionado.

For the first time players there are several guides available on the Internet to help you get started. You will find lists of the weapons and the missions in the game, graffiti tags, photo ops and everything else you need to know about the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas game. If you are a passionate action and adventure games player the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas game should definitely be a part of your game library.

When a student in completely dedicated to his studies and does not want to waste time in worldly affairs, he has no other priority than his studies. Spending time in public transport can disrupt a lot of studies. So it is better that the student covers his distances by car which he can buy using student car loans.

Through these loans, the student can take up money for buying a car of his own. This car can help him a lot when he is commuting as a lot of time is saved as compared to public transport. The student can buy any car with the help of these loans. Any new car or a used car would be financed with the help of these loans.

The borrower students are not required to pledge any asset with the lender of these loans. They are totally collateral-free so as not to create a burden for the students. The borrowers are required to repay the loan amount only after they get a regular employment after their studies are complete. This eases the situation for the borrower as during the course of his studies, he does not have any burdens on him as far as the repayment is concerned.

The borrowers should research well before taking up these loans as the rates of interest are lower than usual. This is due to their approval for students. To get lower rates, the borrowers are suggested to research through the online mode. This way they can come across many lenders who are ready to give lower rates. The students can take up these loan deals and get the vehicle of their choice.

Students with a bad credit history can also take up these loans as they too are given a chance to improve their finances, and support is provided to them when they are taking up higher education. Online research can help these borrowers as well in getting low rate deals.

Student car loans make it very easy for the borrower students that they save their time in commuting and can be more dedicated towards their studies.

Not only can you use it to search for your favorite games but you can also play them directly online without having to install anything. The results to your search for racing games for free will include all types of interesting free games – free car racing games, free boat racing games, free truck racing games, free dirt bike racing games, free street racing games and many more. Free street racing games are particularly appealing to most players because they permit the player to perform car tricks that defy the laws of physics without risking any injury.

Free street racing games like Tokyo Xtreme Racer, Speed Devils, and Street Racers Syndicate can be played online with your friends or downloaded to your computer. Midnight Club Street Racing is a racing game that takes the player to the world of midnight street racing in New York and London. The player begins the game with a rather slow vehicle and has to defeat other drivers in different races to gain access to better, faster cars. Midnight Club II, a sequel to Midnight Club Street racing, moves the races to Tokyo, Paris and Los Angeles and features vehicles that resemble real life cars: the Jersey XS which is modeled after the Dodge Viper, the Victory which is modeled after the Aston Martin Vanquish and the Veloci which is created after the Saleen S7.

Other free street racing games like Street Racing syndicate (SRS) released in 2004 by Namco, make safety a part of the player’s goal and a part of his efforts in winning the game. Unlike it is the case with other free street racing games with Street Racers Syndicate speed is not everything, you also have to drive safely or else you may be spending all your winnings from the previous race repairing your car and losing the game. Another difference from other racing games is that the player’s most important goal is to gain the affection of different females from the city. In this game you advance to the next level of difficulty when you gain the respect of a female who shows you the way to the next race.

If you want to play racing games for free start a search for free racing games on the Internet and choose your favorite.