It’s All About the Horsepower

There was a time when your engine was that oily lump under the hood that you had serviced ever couple of years and wouldn’t dare go near it for fear of massiv explosion that would wake the neighbours!

But now, it’s all about chrome, nitreous and CPUs. Pick up any car magazine and you’ll see fully chromed engines with insulated manifolds and performance air filters. The engine has become one of the selling points of a new car with it often on display at auto shows and in car dealerships alike.

In fact, many modders have even begun moving other components such as the battery, electronics and bulky items such as the windscreen wiper’s liquid tank. This is to make the engine the center of attention, and with god reason with many owners spending thousands to transform a regular straight six into a hardcore racing workhorse.

Its not unusual to fine people bringing their engines to garages to have them fitted with performance fuel injectors, having the cylinders bored to get more cc power or even having a pretty respectable engineering workshop out in the garden shed.

So it’s pretty undoubtable, the days of the 90s when yellow cars with illuminous stripes are gone and it’s almost all about what you have under the bonnet.