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Whenever it comes to upgrading or replacing engines for those who want maximum power it seems it is always the bigger the more powerful, the better. So it goes with Chrysler motors especially when it comes to the vintage retro “Muscle Cars” of the 1960′s and 1970′s.

The “B” and “RB” series can be said to be the “Big Boys” or the “Big Blocks”.

The basic designs of the “B” as well as the “RB” series of power plants are essentially the similar if not the same. This means to a reasonably experienced automotive person with automotive repair skills, that a “RB” series engine can be installed in place of an “R” and vice verso. Take note that if an RB block is wider and taller than its cousin or sister.

If an RB block replaces a previous B block under the hood the mechanic in charge may well find that he or she will have to proceed with additional modifications to accommodate the increased size and girth of the newer replacement engine block. In addition for clearance needs special or different exhaust manifolds or headers may be required.

The question becomes if all B engine blocks – that is the Chrysler 350. 361, 383 and 400 – are of a similar design? It seems that this group and family are all pretty much laid out the same of the same designs. Two bolt main bearing caps are the distinguishing feature in this series. You can count on the essential designs and layout being very strong and durable. So durable in fact that Chrysler never entertained the need to enhance the product line, and upscale it with four-bolt blocks, even in their very high and highest performance versions. Basically you can be reassured that virtually all the parts and components, that is except the pistons themselves, among all the different displacement versions, are interchangeable with no modifications required. Well that is the theory at least. Welcome to the real world of cars, autos and automotive and classic 60′s “Muscle Cars” enthusiasts. They are a strange and unique breed indeed.

What of the “RB” blocks? “RB” engine blocks share many similarities with the “R” series but they are not exactly identical, although more than similar. The main bearing journal diameters are the same as the “R”s. However you can count on this grouping of motors being overall larger than those of the “B” set. It is often noted that the cylinder bore diameters themselves are different among the different displacement engine varieties (413,426 and that of the massive 440) and that generally the smaller displacement in real life motoring on American roads and highways do not have a thick enough bore sleeve to accommodate the strain and work to be over-bored to accept pistons from the next larger displacement version. It can be said , for good effort and results, that you can count on the majority, if not the entire groupings, of the “RB” engines to have the same reliable, durable and racetrack proven two-bolt main bearings caps setup.

With your new and larger engine especially with the 1960′s Chrysler and Mopar “Muscle Cars” of legend – be they 60′s Plymouth “Road Runners” or Dodge “Super Bees” or all the way to the 1970 Mopar Challengers, Barracudas all the way to the 426 Hemi Cuda the thrill of speed on the highways and roadways of America as well is Canada is always there. On top of that you cannot have too big or too powerful motor and engine block.

By: Shaun Stevens

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Are you in need of an automobile makeover? The problem with buying cars is that they are such an expensive investment that you basically just have to stick with them for a fairly long time even if you are bored with the style or interior. The wonderful thing about it, however, is that there are a lot of companies out here that make some really great accessories for cars that allow people like you to makeover your car without spending the amount of actually buying a new one.

One of the best ways to makeover your car is to get some new and exciting floor mats. Floor mats get worm out anyways, as their purpose is to protect that actual carpet found in your vehicle. Floor mats are actually really great investments because they don’t cost an arm and a leg but they certainly will save you that much. Imagine if someone spilled some sticky and sugary Coke on your floors. If you have a floor mat covering the floor, then all you have to do it take it out and wash it off. If you didn’t have one, then tough luck.

A few other great accessories are steering wheel covers and car seat covers. Both of these nifty inventions just so happen to be really beneficial also. Both protect your car while you are driving and both add a little bit of personality to your car. Stock up on these great car accessories next time you are thinking about how dull your car looks.

By: Billings Farnsworth

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Best Gas Mileage is something everyone seeks these days. The oil crises cause the constant rise of gas price – and we are the ones who pay.

Car owners seem to forget or maybe ignore the fact that they could get better gas mileage simply by changing the way they drive. You do not need to buy an ugly and slow prototype in order to save on gas. You could increase gas mileage of your V8 truck as well! To get better gas mileage you should follow these simple rules;

Accelerate gently. This will use less gas. Keep your distance – every time you stop you will have to accelerate. Take your car to a mechanic; simple air filter change or spark plugs replacement could greatly increase gas mileage Drive slower. Going over 120kph will use up much more gas. Change gears as soon as possible – low gear uses up to 30% more fuel than needed.

FOX recently had a news report on a savvy inventor who converted his old car into the best gas mileage car in the country. By using simple bolt-ons this genius succeeded converting his car to burn water as gas – which does increase gas mileage by up to 207%. Water fuel cells burn better then regular gas and allow you to get best gas mileage possible.

This simple engine conversion could be done by anyone at almost no cost and yo any car. This invention does not damage your engine; in fact it keeps you engine cleaner and long lasting. The whole system is easy to take off of the engine and is completely untraceable. Simple engine tweaks could turn your car into a best gas mileage car out there.

Remember, you do not need to stop driving and start using public transportation or a bike, you do not need to buy a prototype either. All you need is better driving habits and simple engine tweaks – these little things allow you to get best gas mileage.

By: Alexandre Sol

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Site linking

Another very important area of search engine optimization is called “anchor text optimization”. Using the right phrases on your links will help boost the relevance of your pages and those it references. Since a text link usually follows some descriptive text about what the user can expect to find, it’s a good candidate for optimization. Avoid using non descriptive words like “click here” for linking. There is nothing wrong with this, functionally speaking, however you’re loosing out on an opportunity to boost page relevance. why not place a keyword of the resulting page in the anchor text.

For example: “how to tune your bikes carburetor” is better than having this: See how to tune your bikes carburetor. “click here”

“click here” being the link. Then if you on the resulting page have keywords that match those in your links this will help ensure relevance.

When others link to your page it’s better when they link with your keywords in the link text rather than something less descriptive. Another good practice you could do to boost link relevance is to have a anchor text displaying the current location to the user. So if the user is on “flash articles/how to make a flash animation” you could do this:

YOU ARE HERE: flash articles > how to make a flash animation

If you create hyperlinks of the path then each link effectively could be a keyword of the resulting page. You’ve just added another link that can work for you.Try and keep your links to other pages in your site at most 3 levels deep. The easier it is for your visitors to get to the page they want, the better the user experience will be. Also I believe this benefits the spiders when they crawl your site. Make sure that each page is indexed by Google.

If you must use flash animated links on your site. (I would advise against it) Even more so, try not to use flash animated links for your website’s main navigation.Search engine spiders do not understand flash, so they won’t follow these links. A solution would be to place some links in plain text at the bottom of your webpage. This is an alternative path that will allow the spiders to get to the other pages in your website.

Google’s tools

Google has a great tool, called Webmaster tools. It doesn’t cost you anything and will give you good feedback as to which pages Google’s spiders had trouble crawling. Also you can submit a sitemap to Google which also helps the search engine spiders navigate your site.

There’s a tool that helps you check if the Googlebot has visited your site. When you log into the Google Webmaster tools section ( you need to register for this, but its free) click on the “site status” link. Type in your full url in the resulting page and you’ll get some interesting info about the last time the bot searched your site and also what the status was. You will also see whether or not your site has been indexed by Google.

Also take the time to get verified. When you do this you’ll open up several other options for you to verify stats on your web pages and much more. Getting verified is as simple as adding a meta tag or uploading an html page to your site.Google will then in real-time check to see whether the file was uploaded by you, thereby verifying your authenticity.

There are many other cool tools that you can use so explore them thoroughly. Statistics including top search queries, crawl stats and page rank are all valuable tools you should make full use of.

How fast does your website load?

A fast loading page is great for user experience. I sometimes have to remind myself that not everyone has a high speed internet connection. Hopefully in the future this will be true. You still need to account for people coming to your website through a dial-up connection.

Dial-up is very sloooow. I remember when I used a dial-up connection in South Africa, where you pay by the minute to be connected to the internet plus you pay a monthly ISP fee.(sad but true) I could not afford to wait too long for slow loading sites because time was of the essence.

I would believe that the search engines monitor how fast your site loads as Google includes this as a tool in their webmaster tools. This may mean that this could affect your ranking in the search engine results.You can actually test how fast your website loads and try to tweak it to within optimum range.

Another topic of debate is what kind of layout structure your html uses.

Some will say they use tables to lay out their pages and that it doesn’t affect page load speed. I would disagree. All my sites use XHTML and CSS for layout only.Besides the messier html document and harder to maintain site structure, a table-less design makes your page lighter weight. Lighter means faster loading times and better user experience.

The use of too many non-optimized images can also affect the overall size of your webpage. Size being the main thing that affects load time.

Photoshop’s image ready has good image optimization specifically for the web. So take all those web images and have a closer look at how you can optimize them. Most times you can cut the file size without really affecting the image much. Also know when to use which image format.(but that is another issue altogether)There are far too many factors that can still influence this SEO article, however the few steps I’ve explained here will put you well on your way to having a search engine friendly site that may help your rankings and usability.

I hope this article was useful to you.

by Roger Samboer

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