hOW CAN I GET MY CAR TO GET MORE POWER EVEN BEING HEAVY? ITS A NISSAN ALTIMA WITH 20" RIMS?
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An altima with 20" rims?  What a waste of money!
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You can get a new exhaust system, cold air intake, you can put in some fuel additives, you can also buy a programmer to reprogram your factory computer.  Just google your car and whatever addition you want to find a good retailer.
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Ok assuming you are part of the real world and race on the street where they dont have a tree, sorry race chick. There are several things you can do to improve launch i have had a 89 mustang gt and i didnt do alot to the engine at first it was all about suspension and other things to get me off the line faster the first thing i done was put in a trunk mount battery kit to help waight transfer then 40/60 drag shocks fron edlebrock and eiback 1" lowering springs in the rear also i ran a pair of Nitto drag Radials and 3.73:1 rear gears you can email me @ williamb606@yahoo for specifics
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A good idea is to use a starter motor, this has low revs and LOTS of torque.\n1 HP = 746 watts, so allow for losses\nA Car battery is measured in AmpHours AH, so theoretically a 60 AH car battery should give 1 amp for 60 hours, however do NOT expect it to give 60 amps for 1 hour, internal resistance, losses, temperature gradient etc.\nif you can find the appropriate meshing gear, use the Starter Motor to drive both rear wheels, simply fit a through gear on the rear drive axle, and engage it to the starter motor - this will take less energy than trying to start a car engine.
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I have put a T3/T4 Hybrid on a 99 GS and to be honest, it's not smart to do unless your doing your fuel system and pistons. You would get 6psi max without blowing anything up so you would be basically be doing it for the sound of the air being vented to the atomsphere. If your gonna go turbo, your better off gettin a turbo motor (4G63T) and building from there. Good Luck Bro
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Any car that can leave smoke has alot of power to begin with, a really heavy duty transmission, two wheel dis brakes, and rear wheel drive. If you do the front wheel drive thing with the emergency brake, you will absolutely screw your emergency brake to hell. What you do is hold the brake as tight to the floor as you can, and press the accelerator all the way to the floor. If your engine doesn't blow up, and your clutch doesn't melt away, your wheels will spin freely, while the friction froom the asphault (always us asphault) heats them up and burns them away. It's a really good way to waste your old tires. But it's also a way to completely ruin your engine and transmission beyond repair. Not a good idea if you like your money and your car, Joe.
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Yeah, sure those "high performance brakes" will give you an excellent boost in horsepower. Wtf? Add a few stickers, and a really large exhaust pipe, and you'll be drag racing before you know it!\n\nAttempt to reduce the weight of the car, and add performance add-on's to the engine and the exhaust system, so the exhaust can flow faster and more efficiently. The "add-ons" will help you produce more power, but weight is an issue.
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a turbo will blow ur motor, get a cold air intake its pretty cheap and it will give u about 10-20 more horse
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place it into your regular car, then drive fast
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it depends on how good the engine is...generally the higher ps will consume more...but you cant use it as a rule of thumb
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You should really be running a fuel pressure gauge. There are a lot of things that can cause your leaning out... You may just need to run some high octane race fuel or may still need a higher capacity fuel pump or you need to back off on your timing...Then there is the other variable, your compression, n2, blower, or other power adder...
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Shifting without letting off of the gas!  Keep your right foot matted to the floor and just brush the clutch pedal--snatch a gear and keep gittin' up!
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Yeah...  What Marky said.\nThen add a performance chip, fuel injectors (if necessary), larger throttle body, and mass air flow sensor (if applicable). Intake manifold....\nThen put a huge Turbonectics Turbocharger on it!\nTo go faster, you need to get more air and fuel in, and more exhaust out.\nHave fun!!
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When I did this, I used CD's. One problem you may have, depending on how quickly your car puts the power down, is the lack of friction.  Overall, it seemed to work well, just make sure you have the wheels properly aligned.
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Use very narrow and small radius wheels on your car. the rotational inertia must be kept to absolute minimums so that most of the energy from the ramp will go into velocity of the car rather than into the rotation inertia of the wheels. this will provide the greatest speed down the track and assuming the track is short the you will get there quicker. If however the track is long you will want to do the opposite by making the wheels large to store the energy and when the car hits the flat section it will not be going as fast but it will go a lot further\n\nE-mail me and i will be happy to explain various other little details  but the main emphasis must be placed on the wheels and knowing the track length is very important to the design and outcome.\n\nI will be able to tell you actual velocities expected at the bottom of the ramp and can calculate the expected distance the car will travel if i am given a little more information. in particular the size of the wheels, mass of the wheels, mass of the car and just so you know the aerodynamics are not going to be any issue at all because the relative velocities are well below speeds that need to consider design shape or aerodynamics. usually speeds in excess of 40mph are where dynamics become an issue and need to be considered. \n\nWell travis is incorrect in the friction issue.  You obviously want the wheels to spin freely but any extra emphasis on this will not gain any performance.The fact that all of the cars are going to be essentially the same with the coefficient of friction then the rubbing area makes absolutely no difference at all. This is because the friction is related to mg*(coefficient of friction) and area has no effect. I will also be happy to elaborate on this point a little more and explain a lot of fallacies friction,tires,roads, brakes and why contact area has essentially no effect.
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If you don't know your cars power band from the factory. I would just go by the seat of your pants feel. As your engine climbs into the upper rpm range, you will notice a slight dropoff in power, usually when you get close to redline. Memorize that point and shift there, right where the power starts to drop off. If you wait to shift after the power band, you are just running your motor extra hard for nothing.
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Think of it this way.  Your car will slow down if I drop an elephant in your trunk while your driving.  \nA high load drags the voltage down.  \nThe power supply can't keep up with the amount of energy the load is wanting.