Kicker 10C104 Comp 10-Inch Subwoofer 4 Ohm

Product Description

KICKER provides the best bass for the buck with the KICKER Comp Subwoofer - all the legendary KICKER bass, and still the world’s greatest value for under $100. It’s equipped with all of the proven KICKER construction that you expect, and with an impressive updated look, the KICKER Comp is the complete package. It’s the best balance between high value and high performance in KICKER’s round-subwoofer lineup.The Comp is loaded with many of the innovations found in elite KICKER woofers, including the stiffest injection-molded cone with flex-killing, 36-degree back bracing, updated coil-cooling perimeter venting, high-temp voice-coil wire, and Spiralead tinsel-lead technology for ultimate durability. The Comp is also versatile, performing in vented or sealed enclosures, and in free-air applications as well.The Comp makes perfect sense for any factory upgrade. With easy-to-use, nickel-plated push terminals, a resilient, updated steel basket, and yellow double-stitched surround, the Comp looks as good as it sounds.

Product Features

• World's best subwoofer value, still under $100 Best-sounding, loudest bass for the buck
• Super-rigid, injection-molded cone with 360-degree back bracing - High-temp coil wire - Vented pole piece for heat dissipation
• Strong steel basket with coil-cooling perimeter venting - Ribbed surround for strength at high excursion
• Durable Spiralead tinsel leads - Tough, yellow double-stitching on surround - Handy spring-loaded terminals

Customer Reviews

i hooked this up to a $50 pyramid amp. and it is almost TOO loud for my mazda 3, and the box is in the trunk too. defiantly recommend this! hits hard on all levels of bass, i can't turn it all the way up because it rattles the plastic in my car too much. when the volume is on medium i can here the bass inside my house if i leave my car on. all around just a good sub!

How to Drive a Race Car

The unique challenges of race car driving can be difficult for young drivers. A race car travels at speeds in excess of 180 mph with frequent pit stops needed for refueling and tire changes. There are many tips to driving a race car along high-banked corners and past the competition to the finish line.

Instructions

1. • 1
     Adhere to the basic tenet of driving by avoiding braking and turning at the same time. The act of making a left turn and applying brakes redistributes weight in your race car that can cause a slide out. Ease off of the throttle instead of applying the brakes on turns to stay in the race.
   • 2
     Keep your throttle steady until you reach the limit point in your race car. The limit point in racing is the exact spot at each turn where visibility beyond an angled corner is diminished by traffic.
   • 3
     Rest your back against your racing seat to maintain steady steering as you drive a race car. Your back should be flat against the seat to ensure your hands are resting on the steering wheel throughout the entire race.
   • 4
     Apply a slight amount of pressure to your brakes during a race to prevent locking during an emergency. Young drivers have the tendency to slam on the brakes which contributes to the sliding, skidding and locking responsible for most crashes.
   • 5
     Move away from a reliance on your side mirrors as you learn to drive a race car. The side mirrors are smaller on a race car than a regular vehicle to cut down on wind resistance. Learn to use quick head checks and forward vision to deal with changing traffic on the track.
   • 6
     Maintain inside position as long as possible to prevent passing on your left. Take advantage of the shorter distance on the inside lane by accelerating quickly and watching for competition on the outside.
   • 7
     Note the tendencies of fellow drivers during the first few laps to make quick decisions come crunch time. A smart driver will keep track of a competitor's tendency to bump, draft and pass to plan moves ahead of the final flag.

     Tips & Warnings

     Register at a racing school run by former professionals, such as the Mario Andretti Racing School, the Jim Russel Racing School or Danny McKeever's Fast Lane Racing School if you're really serious about learning. Check out RaceSchools.com for a listing of schools around the country (see Resources below).

     
     

     Test out your skills as a race car driver by taking your vehicle to an open day at a local track. These open days are designed for racing fans who want to get down on the track, meet drivers and see the challenges of the sport firsthand.

     
     

     Do not drive in a race until you are competent. You risk serious injury or death if you drive at high speeds without adequate experience and training.

     
     

EBC Brakes DP41451R Yellowstuff Street and Track Brake Pad

 

Manufacturer

EBC Brakes manufactures the largest range of brakes in the world manufacturing every size and shape of brake pad and rotor in its UK or USA plant locations. These include Motorcycle Brakes,Mountain Bike Brakes,ATV Brakes and Brakes for cars,SUV and trucks in both organic and sintered versions for applications right up to railway rolling stock,heavy trucks,buses and military vehicles. With a worldwide work force of over 400 people EBC Brakes is an independently owned and managed leader in the brake market, proud of its customers, its products, its success and its people.

Product Description

The new EBC Yellowstuff compound is essentially a race pad but with a big difference in that it works from cold and can be safely used on the highway. If you want the ultimate in high friction braking this is the pad to choose. Brakes feel superb from first touch of the pedal and stay effective up to race temperatures. Maximum stopping is prime requirement and for short duration track use. Its dust rating is similar to OEM parts. All pads come with edge chamfers, center line slots, noise reduction shims and OEM hardware as needed. All EBC pads feature the EBC brake in surface coating which helps pads seat quickly after install.

EBC Brakes - Yellowstuff Street And Track Brake Pads - #DP41451R Features:

High Friction Pad

Better High Speed Stopping

Zero Fade Race Developed Compound

Brakes Effective Right From Cold

Can Be Used On Street/Race Track

Product Features

High friction pad for better high speed stopping

Zero fade race developed compound

Brakes effective right from cold

Can be used on street or race track

Limited lifetime warranty

How to Buy a Custom Fit Car Cover

 

Car covers generally fall into 3 different categories: universal ready-fit, semi-custom, and custom. Custom car covers are manufactured for a specific year, make, model, and body type vehicle and offer the best protection, best overall fit, and best warranties

Steps

1

Make sure you know the exact year, make, model, body type, and trim of the vehicle you are purchasing a custom car cover for. This is essential information. If you don't know this information, you won't be able to purchase a custom car cover.

2

Decide what you want to protect your vehicle from. Different custom car covers protect against different threats. If you're most concerned about water, make sure you buy a waterproof car cover. If you're more concerned about protection from the sun and harmful UV rays, a custom reflective car cover might be your best choice.

3

Decide on a budget. The cost of a custom car cover will vary by both manufacturer and retailer. Once you set a budget for your custom car cover, you will be able to narrow down your options.

4

Find and compare multiple retailers. You can use shopping comparison engines like Nextag or Google Shopping to compare retailers. Don't forget to read all the product details.

5

If you have any questions or doubts about the product you're ordering, contact the retailer. Because custom car covers are made to order, they usually cannot be returned so make sure you purchase the correct cover the first time.

Tips

Covercraft and Coverking are the most popular custom car cover manufacturers in the United States. If you are shopping around you and find Covercraft or Coverking car covers, it is a safe bet that they are true custom covers and not universal read-fit covers.

Warnings

Be careful of online retailers and eBay sellers that advertise custom car covers. In general, anyone advertising a car cover for less than $150 is most likely selling a universal ready-fit car cover and not a true custom car cover.

Stay away from retailers that offer lifetime warranties. There is no such thing as a custom car cover that lasts forever. Any retailer offering a lifetime warranty is using it as a marketing gimmick.

Stay away from mass retailers and auto parts stores like Autozone, Pep Boys, and Walmart. They sell universal ready-fit car covers, not custom car covers.

How do you recognize faulty wheel bearings?

As the name implies, wheel bearings are the bearings on which the wheels of a vehicle are attached. They ensure that the wheels run smoothly. Wheel bearings are one of the wear parts. This means that the wheel bearings must be replaced regardless of any breakdown statistics in due course.

From outside, no discernible wear on the wheel bearings:

 

From the outside, damage or wear is not visible, because the wheel bearings are mounted on the inside of the rim. The result of worn wheel bearings is an uneven running of the wheels, this one does not feel at first, but you can hear it.

Especially in curves obtained by swiftly moves, a noise sounds similar to the rapid tapping of a woodpecker. The higher the velocity is, the louder the noise. To locate the defective wheel bearing one pays most to what occurs in the noise curve. When a defect occurs on the right side of the noise in right-handers, it silenced in left turns. Later come the sounds to even bend-free ride.

Defective or worn wheel bearings create a vehicle is not stopped immediately, but the noise is very unpleasant with time. Due to the uneven movement of the wheels is due to the reduced stability of the wheels also increases the rolling resistance, which is detrimental to fuel consumption.

In advanced stages of wear may be a canting of the wheel bearing the sequence, so that further movement impossible.

A change of the wheel bearings should only make those with expertise on repairs and maintenance of motor vehicles. Thus, a transition to the next workshop is usually inevitable.

Infinity Basslink 200-Watt, Dual 10" Powered Subwoofer System

Product Description

The BassLink line includes everything you need for great bass in your car, with no hassle. This system includes a round 10-inch woofer, a round 10-inch passive radiator and a 200-watt Class D amplifier, plus all the controls you need to integrate its sound with your existing system. It can be mounted vertically or horizontally for easy placement in any car. Designed to deliver low frequencies in virtually any car audio system, BassLink truly has universal appeal. Small in size but big in output, BassLink requires a mere .75 cubic feet of trunk space yet produces enough bass to wake up the neighborhood.
BassLink consists of a 10-inch subwoofer, 10-inch passive radiator and a 200-watt Class D amplifier housed in a rigid polymer enclosure, all carefully engineered to work together as a unique, integrated system. The extremely versatile BassLink accepts both speaker- and line-level inputs, and it provides an internal low-pass filter, proprietary signal processing and abundant amplification.
The BassLink system features a servo-control circuit that continually monitors the voice coil's position in the magnetic gap and prevents the distortion that occurs when a conventional woofer is overdriven. By integrating cone-excursion information with the instantaneous demands of the music, BassLink can extract loud and deep bass from an enclosure smaller than any before.
BassLink includes a fixed, 2nd-order, high-pass filter that eliminates the possibility of over-excursion below Fb, the resonant (tuned) frequency of the vented box. This allows the excursion-monitoring circuit to focus on the excursion at the more meaningful frequencies at and above Fb. The result is a significant increase in bass output.
User-adjustable controls allow listeners to set the system's response to achieve optimum performance based on the vehicle's cabin gain or transfer function. These controls include: a 0- or 180-degree phase switch; a continuously variable electronic low-pass filter that is adjustable between 70 and 100Hz; variable input sensitivity; and Bass EQ that provides for adjustments between +3 and -6dB. BassLink's frequency response in a typical vehicle is 20 to 100Hz (+/-3dB), but this varies according to the vehicle and user adjustments. At maximum gain, the system can accept inputs as low as 250mV.
BassLink can accept up to four channels of input--to provide nonfading bass--either from line-level signals through four RCA jacks or from high-level signals through a pair of Molex connectors, allowing BassLink to be easily connected to OEM systems. If using the speaker-level inputs, an audio-sense circuit will turn on the amplifier whenever a signal is present. If the RCAs are used, a 12-volt, remote-turn-on lead is required. The system has barrier strip connections for power, ground and remote turn-on.

Product Features

• Powered subwoofer with onboard 200-Watt Class D amplifier
• Variable electronic crossover (50Hz to 120Hz), sensitivity, and bass-boost
• 10-Inch subwoofer and 10-inch passive radiator
• Variable Bass EQ (+3db to -6 db at 45Hz)
• Includes Basslink LC remote bass-level control

GlobalSat BU-353 USB GPS Navigation Receiver

Product Description

The BU-353 GPS Receiver can be utilized in a variety of applications which require GPS signals to be received and decoded in your Windows laptop or tablet PC, and for Mac users, their iBooks or Powerbooks. Compatible with most all NMEA compliant third-party software, the BU-353 is suitable for use in vehicle, marine and aviation navigation, as well as commercial and municipality applications such as fire trucks, police cars, buses, GIS data collection and much more!The BU-353's slim profile housing is completely water resistant and incorporates an active patch antenna for the highest level of GPS accuracy. With a 60" cable, placement of the GPS receiver anywhere within the vehicle will usually get sufficient GPS signal reception, but in those rare occurrences when towering high-rises offer challenging satellite reception, simply place the BU-353 on the vehicle's roof (attaches with its built-in magnet) for improved reception.Since power and data are transferred through the same USB cable from the BU-353, there's no need for batteries or any other external power source.BU-353W Package Contents: BU-353RB USB GPS Receiver (1) Suction Cup CD-ROM (User Manual & GPS Info Test Utility)

Product Description

Introducing the first SiRF Star III based Serial GPS receiver with WAAS/EGNOS* support for enchance position accuracy. The GlobalSat BU-353 Water-Proof USB Mouse GPS Receiver is powered by SiRF Star III chipset is a new-generation GPS chipset that has extremely high sensitivity, lower power usage and more rapid time-to-fix. It works very well even in reduced visibility environment or weak signal tracking such as traveling in mega city and surrounded by tall buildings. It is very small and it`s waterproof! It also comes with a magnetic mounting so that you could mount it on the roof of your car! The GlobalSat BU-353 Water-Proof USB Mouse GPS Receiver can be utilized in a variety of applications that require a magnetic mounting with waterproof configuration. With non-slip on the bottom and the special compact design, the GlobalSat BU-353 Water-Proof USB Mouse GPS Receiver is completely self-contained and waterproof. It incorporating the latest SiRF Star III GPS chipset and an active patch antenna so you receive a high degree of GPS accuracy. Typical application can include marine environments, aviation, commercial use such as fire truck, police cars and utility vehicles and buses. The extended 5 feet long cable allows for easy routing to your PC / Laptop / ibook / PowerBook. Combining both design and technology into an iF product design award 2006 winning GPS receiver the Globalsat BU-353 integrates the latest SiRFStarIII chipset into a stylish GPS mouse. This results in one of the most sensitive and accurate GPS receivers on the market today. WAAS/EGNOS may not be available in your location.

Product Features

• Built-In Supercap For Rapid Acquisition
• Built-In Roof Mount Magnet
• USB Interface
• Built-In GPS Patch Antenna

Customer Reviews

This GPS is awesome!!! I have struggled with trying to interface handheld GPS to my laptop for a couple of years. I live aboard a sailboat in the Caribbean using navigation software to plan my passages and have been frustrated trying to use my handheld GPS input which resulted in continual problems. That has all been changed using this new GPS and couldn't be happier with it's ease of installation and awesome performance. It picks up the signal below at my nav station, aquires quickly and performs without causing any problems with my computer. I have tried several systems and this unit outperforms them and I cannot recommend this unit highly enough, you will not be sorry...

How to Buy Reliable Car Parts

 

When you want to buy some aftermarket parts for your car, it is important to get some knowledge about where to look and what to look for. As we all know, it is to find a good places to get reliable parts, and for those enthusiasts out there, parts that can add some extra oomph to your car.

Try to do as the bellow tips. This will save you time and money while finding exactly what you need. Whether you are into cars or just an average person looking for a cheap part, these tips will be of great help.

1. Try not to buy car parts from junk yards.

The cheap prices of junk yards have made junk yards a popular place to pick up parts.

At the most time, people go there because they are not willing to spend too much money on their car parts, and as well as they can also haggle down prices.

These parts are so cheap because they were headed for the crusher. The parts coming from junk yards are just simply no good, if you want that turbo from that old car rusting in the junk yard thinking you will get some massive boost in horsepower, think again and again before you set up your mind. Make your life easier and simply do not go to a junk yard for auto parts.

2. Using the internet

There is full of awesome parts on the internet. A lot of trust worthy auto parts salesman has online shops as well as physical shops.

You should just find a website from one of these places that deals in auto parts. You can simply search what you need there.

There are even sites that can sell second hand, refurbished, and even brand new OEM equipment or original equipment manufacturer. They are also great places that offer some discounts and will handle all the shipping issues.

They also offer warranties and excellent customer service. Although, do just assume they are legit, they can be just as shady as a junk yard. With the aid of the internet, you can easily search up any business to see if they are legitimate.