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Oil and Water Cooling

If you are new to the build, it’s an Exocet that will be powered by a high revving supercharged 4 cylinder with around 500hp. The final curb weight will be around 1700lbs! Check out our other posts as well and follow our facebook page to be kept up to date. Now on to the post… Oil and Water Cooling One of the biggest factors in engine longevity and reliability is proper cooling. Water usually warms up first, with the oil…
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Custom Made Intercooler

Custom Intercooler When air is compressed by a supercharger or turbo, the process of compression increases its temperature by a significant amount. This is where an intercooler comes in. Intercoolers are placed in front of the radiator so they have access to ambient airflow. The ambient temperature air cools down the hot compressed air as it flows through the intercooler. As cooler air is denser, this enables the engine to make more power and also protects against detonation (knock). Most…
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New Project Car Introduction!

Five hundred horsepower and less than 1700lbs? Welcome to our new project. As a promo/project car we are building an Exocet! It's a kit car that uses the double wishbone suspension and (typically) the drive train from a Mazda Miata.  Our build however is going to be far from standard, with lot's of custom fabrication and engineering involved, including a custom built forced induction system. And we will most certainly not be using the Miata engine to achieve 500hp! While…
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Wheel Alignment Tool Giveaway!

In celebration of our newly formed facebook page and our new project car, We will be giving away four wheel alignment tools. Possibly even more depending on how many likes we get over the next couple months. All you have to do to enter is like our page! The giveaway will be for your choice of any of our products, except the 4 wheel system. However if you want the 4 wheel system you can receive a $200 credit towards…
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New Domain

We are transitioning to our new domain here, WheelAlignmentTools.com! As for what’s coming in the future, we be adding social media pages soon. There will be giveaways for both current and past customers. We will also be documenting the build of our new project car. It’s an Exocet, which is a kit car based on the Mazda Miata, that essentially replaces the Miata’s unibody with a tube frame chassis, shedding 900lbs in the process. We will NOT be using the…

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