rev up your engines, today I'm going to talk about three of the
best car modifications you can do to your car yourself, now I'm not going to be
talking about super expensive stuff, like putting on a turbocharger, where you
got to spend a whole bunch of money, then you have to have a mechanic reprogram
the computer to make it fit, I'm talking about stuff that you can do yourself
that really makes a difference, now the first thing I'm going to talk about is
brakes, so I'm using motorcycle brakes as an example, now when you're driving your
car around, your entire car all that weight is kinetic energy in motion and
when you have to stop the vehicle, all that kinetic energy is turned to heat by
the brakes and that he has to be dissipated, and on motorcycle since you
only have two wheels and they're really fast, it's very important to dissipate it
as fast as possible, hence you have drilled rotors so they dissipate heat
better, so if you really want to put an upgraded modification on your car, you
can get drilled or slotted discs to put on your car and it will stop much better
plus it's an easy job you can do yourself,
now the second really good mod you can do in your car, are your tires, you want to
have the right tires for how you want to ride, drive and corner, now I'm not
talking about foolish modifications, like if you have 16 inch wheels putting 20
inch wheels and stuff, that ruins the vehicle really, I'm talking about using
quality tires that are the right ones for your driving experience, realize that
a large part of the shock absorbing system of your car is actually your tire
the rubber sidewalls come and go, they give and your car's going to ride a lot
better if you have the correct tires for your car and let's say you live in a
rainy place like Seattle, you want to get good rain tires, they actually have tires
that have treads that are deliberately designed so that they expel the water
off to the sides and work much better in rainy environments, and if you have a
really fast car, you have to get speed rated tires that can take the speed and
will be able to take all the power of the engine without the tire slipping, and
here of course you got to decide how far do you want the notifications to go
because you can get really grippy tires that are super soft, but then it's like
an eraser, as you go down the road you're going to wear those tires out fast and
really soft ones, they can wear out in five six hundred miles, so you don't
want to go that far, just realize that tires have a
lot to do with how your car rides, I've had many customers in the past say, Oh Scotty
thanks for telling me I need new tires because boy when I put on the ones you
suggested, the car rode so much better, didn't skid anymore, and it handles like
a dream now, and all they did was change the tires, the last good car modification has
to do with the cooling system, the radiator in your car, now for a long time
radiators have been made out of plastic and aluminum, this car is 26 years old
and it's still got a plastic aluminum one in, but when I was a kid radiators
were better, they were all solid metal construction like on my motorcycle here
the radiator is all made out of metal, even the tanks are made out of metal
everything's metal guess what, metal dissipates heat better than plastic and
it lasts a lot longer, and modern radiators are thinner, they have less surface area some
of them are one row, some of them are two row, but most of them are just one row, look
at this radiator it was a four row, they work a lot better, so if you want a
modify your cooling system, put on a better metal radiator and
one that's got more rows, it's going to last longer and cool your engine better
realize when they're building modern vehicles, they're often not building them
to last as long as possible, you can reverse the trend yourself by modifying
your own car, just make sure you use the right modifications like I'm talking
about and not goofy things like raising them way up in the air, putting on huge
tires, or anything that is claiming it's going to make your car work better but
actually it makes it work worse, so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair video,s remember to ring that Bell!