I am a big fan of nascar and was wondering how much the inital investment would be to get a car and get on the track. like, do you have to have one built or can you buy a racing car. How do you get a driver? Also any information I am forgetting to ask about would be helpful.

How much will the BMW dealership charge to do a full tune up on a 2000 bmw 328ci? And what is included in the full tune up? Thanks!

Interested to find out how a supercharger works and how much they would cost on average.
If it helps, its for a 1995 VW Golf 8v 2.0 GTi.

Because most of the engine action happens right at the exhaust system, components like your Pontiac muffler is commonly overlooked for modifications aiming to boost performance. With all that massive pipe and tubing that helps your engine direct harsh and hot emission out of the system and engine compartment, your muffler pipe or pipes could help you take your car?s overall level of performance a level up notch. Typically engineered to cancel out or minimize exhaust noise, the part could actually help manipulate backpressure to yield the desired engine power at specified rpm range. For high performance driving applications, powerful muffler constructions have been employed so your engine roams as a winning piece of mean machine. While muffler manufacturers take leverage in the functional features and distinction of the sound their pipes deliver, time and application tested technologies have been incorporated to let you enjoy powerful engine performance while following the course of your driving style with absolutely no fail. The part is typically installed along the exhaust pipe to serve as the resonating chamber where exhaust noise waves cancel out. As a result, the performance tuned exhausts complete your vehicle?s commanding presence with an assertive tone.

Due to the continuous fuel combustion processes, your engine continuously release harsh exhaust gases which are delivered through their designated routes to undergo a series of combined chemical and mechanical processing. After passing through electronic sensors and the catalytic converter, the fluid is then delivered to the exhaust mufflers prior to its release outside the system. Without mufflers or exhaust sound silencers, the sound created while your engine pushes out hot and harsh exhaust gases will be unbearable. Tough constructions of stainless steel Pontiac mufflers are employed by your car to effectively fine-tune your car?s exhaust sounds. The most important aspect of muffler design will be the amount of backpressure it could produce. While the stock mufflers typically generate high levels of backpressure, it subtracts a significant portion of engine power as your engine runs. To reduce backpressure, sound absorption features to application have been established. Glass insulation at tubing walls have been incorporated for insulation. As a result, pressure pulses are better absorbed. The use of advanced automotive technologies to practical Pontiac muffler applications have significantly improved fuel efficiency, performance and power output while reducing overall engine wear and tear.

With the continuous efforts to muffler construction development research, less restrictive mufflers are now made conveniently available to help you achieve your set car performance goals. To deliver the sound levels in compliance with the law, Pontiac muffler is comprised with less restrictive set of exhaust tubes that facilitates reflection of sound waves. As the reflected sound waves are made to interfere with one another, they practically cancel out resulting to a more bearable exhaust tone. To do that, the part is strategically mounted at points where processed exhaust gases are more efficiently collected. Well-crafted cars like your Pontiac ride is typically designed for quiet exhaust operations. Once you experience increased exhaust noises or increased judder to exhaust pipes, immediately consult a qualified service technician so his accurate diagnostics could immediately correct potential causes of muffler damage or failure.

The private ownership of DaimlerChrysler?s American division may be just what the doctor ordered for Chrysler?s fast recuperation. After it was agreed that the Cerberus Capital Management LP will purchase 80.1 percent of Chrysler?s shares for $7.4 billion, it appears now that Daimler will just be receiving $673 million. This is because part of the sales proceeds will back Chrysler?s turnaround plan.

For the past couple of decades, auto industry?s experts have predicted a major downsizing of the U.S. auto industry because of the plant?s overcapacity coupled with shrinking sales, increasing production costs, and other notable factors. Automakers have tried to ward off this inevitable transformation by attempting what now can be deemed as a nip and tuck. But cosmetic surgery is not enough for Chrysler. Efficient Chrysler brake pads are inevitable to make a timely stop so as to end sales doldrums.

It can be recalled that when Daimler-Benz mounted a $36 billion takeover of the Chrysler Corp. in 1998, the German carmaker called it “a merger of equals.” In May, when DaimlerChrysler announced plans to rid itself of Chrysler, the Teutonic term of art was “a $7.4 billion sale.”

Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche denied that he was paying Cerberus to take Chrysler. “Cerberus invested $7.4 billion into this transaction, which obviously is not any form of being paid,” he said. “In essence, they paid us to take the company,” Cerberus chief Lenard B. Tessler told his shareholders recently, as reported by the Wall Street Journal online. “I’m not talking out of school.”

“We welcome Chrysler into the Cerberus family of companies and believe Cerberus will be a good home for Chrysler. Cerberus believes in the inherent strength of U.S. manufacturing and of the U.S. auto industry. Most importantly, we believe in Chrysler,” said John W. Snow, the Chairman of Cerberus.

Snow continued, “We would like to thank DaimlerChrysler for their good stewardship of this American icon over the last decade. We are aware that Chrysler faces significant challenges, but we are confident that they can and will be overcome. A private investment firm like Cerberus will provide management with the opportunity to focus on their long-term plans rather than the pressures of short-term earnings expectations.”

Zetsche was quoted as saying: ?We?re confident that we?ve found the solution that will create the greatest overall value ? both for Daimler and Chrysler. With this transaction, we have created the right conditions for a new start for Chrysler and Daimler.”

Critics in the industry said that it was hard enough for Zetsche and his board to face the reality that Daimler paid $36 billion for Chrysler while Cerberus was putting up just $7.4 billion. Even if you add the $11 billion in profit, Zetsche said that Chrysler has provided Daimler through the years, that is still a $17.6 billion loss, they added. But admitting that the company is not going to get any hard cash when the sale closes in July, just 19.9?percent of the new Chrysler, would have been humiliating. So Dieter slapped on a smile and ended up smiling all the way to the bank, critics noted.

The extravagant price tag also signaled that Cerberus paid serious money in a serious bid to repair the ailing Chrysler. Some critics said that maybe this deal really is win-win. Daimler gets out from under Chrysler and the company?s stock increases. The private equity firm gets to pick up a popular automaker at a bargain and gets leverage to cut costs. What is certain is that it is only fitting that Daimler had to throw in its own cash to make the sale. After all, Chrysler is the company that invented the rebate, they stressed.

My 3 series has an intermittent wiper problem and I have been told to go to bmw so they can plug into the ecu and diagnose the fault…
So I dont get ripped off can anyone tell me roughly what is a fair price for simply diagnosing the fault please?

My daughter backed my car into a curb which bent the pipe to the muffler where it joins the muffler. It rumbles, rattles and is sucking the life from my car. How do you fix it? How much would it cost?