Have you ever had your engine over heat after an upgrade? The High Performance Air Filter will help get more of that cooling air to get into and help your engines needs.
Call me crazy if you wish, but I pulled this old article out of my hard drive because I was nostalgic over Valentine's Day. You see, I can't go through on major holiday without choosing to celebrate part of the holiday by making my car drive with more performance for that important date of the year. See what I was doing last year: Synthetic Motor Oil on Valentines Day. Or, read my nostalgia about love (even more so in the comments section) and a high performance air filter that makes me even happier about my current love this Valentine's Day!
My favorite and most accessible way to get the air you need to make your car be at it's best is to make use of K&N filtration technology, an incredible high performance air filter. I had been doing upgrades on one of cars years gone by and it tended to run a little hotter. I thought that that was okay, I mean I was getting more performance right? Well, wrong. One day, merrily driving up a violently angled hill on the way to a religious service, but engine's heat kept getting hotter and hotter still until I realized that if I shut my motor off and the radiator fluid stopped going through the engine then I'd be looking at some damage. I decided to leave the transmission in gear and go down the hill letting my engine get to a higher RPM, which would allow for more of my maximized radiator fluid to get through the engine. The temperature kept heating up! At this point I realized the engine was so hot that the radiator temperature, that actual temperature that you see, not that temperature of that actual engine was only slowly catching up with how over heated my engine really was. So, wishing I knew then what I know now (You can leave an engine and drive going down hill in a manual with the engine off so that no more fuel is pumped in, meaning no more extra heat, and allow the radiator and motion of the vehicle to cool the engine.), in exasperation I gave up and shut down the car and waited until it was cool from feeling hood first and waiting until the motor was touchable. I couldn't help but wonder if something in my radiator system/cooling system had broken or if my upgrades were just too much. That particular day I had my heaviest friend at the time, 350 lbs. or more and his wife coming with us. Not the greatest idea on that big hill in my little four banger.
Within a week I had installed my K&N High Performance Air Filter. In one more week - having noticed my engine running much cooler and smoother since it was getting it's air intake needs met - I set off up the same hill seeking the same religious experience for me and a challenge for my upgraded car. For a High Performance Air Filter really is an upgrade, people don’t realize that it isn’t just the super chargers or modified transmissions, which are upgrades, it’s the little stuff. I wasn't able to get my overweight friend and his wife to come to tax the small engine as I had before – they were too afraid to come! So I did the best I could to test my high performance air filter by throwing all of my tools into the back and taking my beautiful and normally sized wife. So, still being 100 to 200 lbs. short of my last experience, I decided to do my best with my little motor to race up the hill. My car not only dug in with its high performance air filter but it ran cooler going up that hill than it did in every day life! That upgrade for my car, or probably just me, craved the higher RPM’s! After this experience I could get away with higher RPM’s without the over heating consequences! Whenever you need to be into the higher RPM's to get up your car's hills in life, install your high performance air filter made by K&N and get the high performance air filter advantage like I did!
by AutoBravado
by AutoBravado
3 comments:
Written like a true blog entry long before I became a blogger or divorced, but have no fear this Valentine’s day, because I look at this old story with greater happiness than usual because I’ve been with my girl friend for over a year and we keep getting closer to being married! It’s true what they say. The more committed a relationship, the happier a relationship, studies show it, or so says my local radio station, but definitely so says my life. So what if I rarely keep my hands off a car given any major holiday. I’ve been on an installing kick for spark plugs for everyone I know lately, (just started trying iridium spark plugs for me!) so I know what I’ll be doing, but maybe you should be ordering a high performance air filter, because with how easy those are to install, you won’t be late for that important date this Valentine’s Day!
Reading my ideas about Valentine's Day and reflecting on all the good holidays where I spent some happy time under the hood just warms me. What I mean by happy time under the hood is that I'm upgrading, and not fixing something!
I know that changing your synthetic oil is not as much of an upgrade as a High Performance Air Filter, but I must say, if you haven't been using synthetic motor oil, or if you haven't changed your oil for too long, your car will feel so good that it WILL be an upgrade!
When I refer to warm memories, I want to be clear that I'm talking about the whole holiday and not just the car. I truly love how holidays connect people. I enjoy also the fact that my family has accepted my eccentricity to try to be under the hood of a car at least a little every holiday.
I remember the first holiday that I wanted to install a High Performance Air Filter into my car, but no car store was open on Thanksgiving. It took me two Thanksgivings to keep the promise I made myself that day, "Always have stuff for a project on a car, BEFORE, the holiday, that way you won't be stuck doing nothing on a car!"
I've generally kept my promise ever since, and if I ever have fear to the contrary I add to my blogs about cars or order just the right upgrade, just for the excitement of knowing my car will improve, from the many links which I've collected and added into my blogs for my favorite car places to shop online.
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