Carbon fiber hood - feed your need for speed
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by: LouieLiu
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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 Time: 1:43 AM
The car's engine has to do the hard work in the car of moving its heavy weight forward at a high speed. And a great engine is able to do this without seemingly making too much of an effort. A small touch on the accelerator pedal and the car zoom off at a high speed. But in reality the engine is putting in serious hard work. Your horse power rating will tell you that its likely delivering the power of more than a hundred horses. Just imagine a chariot of the old times with over a hundred horses tethered to it. So why does the car's engine have to produce so much power? After all a car is not much larger than a chariot and goes about ten times as fast. The answer is that a car is much heavier. And besides a higher top speed it has a much higher acceleration as well. And that is why the car requires such a powerful engine.
Now that can set off a train of thought. If such a powerful engine was to take forward a lighter weight then it would be able to do it even more easily. And that is very right. The power to weight ratio of the car would go up and the car will have more zip and it will go faster. Which is the reason that products that reduce the weight of the stock car are popular. And very popular such product is a carbon fiber hood. Of course they do more than just reduce the weight, they look cool and smart at the front of the car. They also make it easier to steer the car because they reduce the weight at the front of the car. That makes the front wheels of the car carry a lesser load and they are able to respond to the steering wheel command better.
You can reduce the weight of your car further by opting for carbon fiber trunks as well. They will complement the carbon fiber hood nicely. You can see these product easily by going online. You can see the latest carbon fiber hoods at www.ilovebodykits.com.
About the Author
Louie Liu has been in the car aftermarket products industry for 7 years. He specializes in body kits, headlights, cold air intakes & other aftermarket products. You can learn more about carbon fiber hoods, carbon fiber trunks and other car aftermarket products at his site www.ilovebodykits.com.
