rev up your engines, Alexandra bridges says good morning
Scotty is a Dodge Charger se 2014 to
15 a good long-term family car, not
really
those are fun cars for guys to drive
fast in, overtime dodges don't hold up I
mean especially a modern one
everything's plastic it breaks the
transmissions burn out and stuff like
that and a charger is really isn't a family
car it's a sporty racy car, they're fun
to drive around in yeah, but in long term
no they're not uh you know they're not
particularly a long-term car, most people
especially if you're a young family or
you don't have kids, then when you have
kids the wife's gonna be mad for you
driving too fast anyway they're gonna
want a van or something you know I mean
you might buy that for yourself and
keep it and then buy a van for your wife
that'd be my suggestion, Darrell Newman
says I have a question, can you take a
supercharger and a turbocharger
slapped together in one vehicle, you
certainly can if you want to spend the
money I mean the first one that I ever
saw that was like that was actually a
b-17 bomber, they still fly it down here
at the Air Force in
Galveston Texas, they made them so that
they had superchargers and turbochargers
because they wanted to ram as much air
in as they can and today's cars with
modern computer controls yes it can be
done, I know guys that do that if they
want to boost it as much as they
possibly can
of course then you want to make sure you
got a really strong powerful engine, cuz
you're gonna boost it so much you end up
blowing the engine, but yes it can be
done by any pro knows what he's doing to
get more horsepower, you could even add
nitrous on top of that if you want too
five says, I got a 12 year old Jeep
Liberty 4x4 140,000 miles, it's running fine
what should I expect going forward
should I sell it or keep it, okay well
you know it's a 4x4 and if you like it
I'd say keep it and maintain it because
it's 12 years old, the resale value is
pretty low when they're 12 years old, and
if you like it keep it, you're not gonna
get much for it, I mean just for your own
interest, advertise it and see what
people offer you for it, and you're gonna
find they're probably not gonna offer you
that much for it, so what the heck you
might as well as keep it and
say you want something that gets better
gas mileage for the summer and you want
to use that in the winter maybe doing a
little plowing or whatever, go buy used
Toyota Corolla or something and then use
the Jeep on the weekend and in the
winter when you gotta go through a lot
of snow, I got a lot of customers with
old Jeeps
that do that, they keep the old one for
toying around and then they buy a new
car or a used older car that's got a
small engine for good gas mileage for
commuting, j-money says Scotty I got an
06 Nissan 350z it burns a quart
half a quart to a quart of oil between oil
changes any idea what's wrong
yeah it's just the old age, the engine is
worn a little bit those are sports cars
guys driving pretty hard, now of course
change the PCV valve, it could be as
simple as your PCV valve is sticking
opened a little it's sucking too much
oil, they don't cost much change that
but if it still does that, that's not bad for
a sports car as the piston rings wear
and the valve seals get old it will suck
a little oil in the engine and burn a
little bit of oil
that's not bad between oil changes, now
it is getting to be a little bit older
it's 13 years old and it's a sports car
my advice is change the oil a lot, I don't know
how you're changing it or what you use
but I would use a quality oil like
Castrol GTX and I would change it every
three to five thousand miles on that and
if you change it further away, change it
more frequently because it's getting
older and you want to take care of it
oil is cheap engines are expensive, baby
an engine like that because it's a well
made racing engine and you don't want to
wear it out for buying oil here and
there, Michelle Graf says I got a Nissan
and the head gaskets going is this a job
I can do myself or should I pay a
mechanic, well you should definitely pay
a mechanic it's not something you can do
yourself and even mechanics these days a
lot of them aren't they good with engine
work anymore
once that gasket is blown you don't know
what's wrong inside the engine for sure
you know, oh the head gasket is blown but
you take that engine apart, you got to
split it in half pull the head off the
block the head could be warped if the head is warped
they cost a fortune for another head, you
junk the car then and Nissan's are
notorious for blowing head gaskets and
having head problems, so a lot of times
the money you got to spend you're better
saying goodbye to that car and get a
good used Toyota or good used Honda or
something rather than fixing the Nissan
cuz the Nissans aren't that
well-made these days
you know but I know people that
sometimes they like to gamble and
they'll get a used engine from a
junkyard and if they know a guy in a
junkyard and he says hey we just got a
used one in that's all smashed in the
back but it's got an engine with 60,000
miles, have him put a used engine in,
sometimes that's a better way to go
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