Some people live to hit the great outdoors for an adventure, and a segment of that group prefers that those outdoor adventures be conducted atop a mud-spattered vehicle with two wheels or even four. Off-roaders in the latter category have no doubt spent some time figuring out which vehicles best suit their off-roading needs and
While there’s nothing wrong with leaving your Kawasaki Ninja with stock parts, many people like customizing their bikes to spice things up. This can come down to performance or simply not liking how something looks. Kawasaki might be one of the best motorcycle brands, but that doesn’t mean people think the bikes are perfect. There
Giving your car’s brake calipers a fresh coat of paint is an easy and low-cost way to customize your ride. Painted brake calipers look fantastic when peering behind some awesome-looking wheels. Furthermore, cleaning, prepping, and painting the caliper surface offers year-long protection from contaminants like caked-on brake dust, dirt, rust, and corrosion. Then again, anything
Good things don’t necessarily last a long time. The showroom shine on your car’s paintwork, for one, fades along with its protective clearcoat due to UV radiation exposure from parking your car outdoors. It happens even for those blessed with closed garages, thanks to the millions of micro-scratches that accumulate over time. Professional car detailing
Cordless power tools have been around for several decades and offer convenience by ditching the requirement for a lengthy extension cord. Believe it or not, battery-powered tools were invented by Black and Decker back in 1961. Advances in battery technology have made these devices increasingly more powerful, with modern units reaching up to 20 volts of
While catalytic converters regularly appear on the news as increasingly-targeted stolen items, they’re an important part in vehicles. For those who aren’t gearheads or auto enthusiasts, the primary function of a catalytic converter is to reduce toxic pollutants. It’s a metal canister that sits under the car between the engine and muffler. Inside, a metallic
Restomod projects, like most other automotive projects, can be made much easier or much harder by the tools you have on hand. With the wrong tools, you can end up spending far too long on something that should have been an easy fix. Worse still, you could end up damaging a delicate or costly component,
Automotive design has come a long way since Karl Benz designed the Patent Motorwagen in the late 1800s, and Henry Ford brought the T-4 powered Model T to the masses in 1908. Those early cars were little more than motorized adaptations of the horse-drawn carriage, but we now have cars with sophisticated electronics that have us