Say you have a Honda or an Acura and you want it to go faster, chances are, you would be thinking of upgrading your engine. It's either you buy performance enhancing parts or replace the engine. Of the two, the second step is guaranteed to give you instant increase in speed especially if you choose an engine with a better power output. If you opt for that, you should have these according to Wikihow:

• Engine Hoist
  
• Motor Mounts
  
• Shift Linkage (for many swaps
  
• 17mm, 14mm, 12mm wrenches (multiple sizes of each)
  
• Tall jack and at LEAST 2 jackstands
  
• blowtorch or liquid wrench
  
• Axles (be sure to get ABS axles only if you will be using ABS)

• Choose your engine.
  
• Order the necessary parts.
  
• Organize tools and write down a plan.
  
• Prepare the donor engine to be installed.
  
• Remove your previous engine, making sure to label all re-usable parts.
  
• Hoist your new engine up and into the engine bay of the engine recipient.
  
• Hook up all components required for the new engine to be installed.
  
• Refill fluids for all major components of engine, transmission, and coolant systems
  
• "Break-in period" should be 500 miles or so of easy driving (under 3k rpm)

• Removing the pin which holds the shift linkage to the transmission on older Honda/Acura cars is often the most difficult part of a swap. It is worth your while to purchase the correct punch for your vehicle.
  
• If you purchase a used engine, it is often a good idea to replace any belts, the alternator, and the clutch while the motor is out of the car.

The BMW 3-litre twin turbo won the International Engine of the Year 2007 award held at the Engine Expo in Stuttgart, Germany during the ninth annual International Engine of the Year Awards. The award also recognizes the following

• 3-litre engine from 335i sees International Engine of the Year Award title stay in BMW's hands for a record third year in a row
  
• BMW takes a total of seven International Engine of the Year Award trophies in 2007
  
• Porsche finally wins an International Engine of the Year Awards trophy
  
• Evergreen Toyota Prius 1.5-litre hybrid engine still the top eco-friendly option says jury

Because of the demand of cars in both local and international markets, the Honda Motor Corporation decided to boost up the production of their car engines to 40%. The increase in the engine production would deifinately take place in their engine production plants in China where most of the cars and other car parts related to Acura CL head gasket s are made.

Japan’s second largest car maker is planning to spend a huge amount of 30 billion yen ($271 million) to pursue this particular plan. This coming December 12, the car company starts building a 200,000 units-a-year engine plant in Guangzhou, China to boost their engine production to up to 40% on an annual basis. The news came from the Nikkei business daily as they had reported on Wednesday.

Guangzhou Honda Automobile Company is a Honda equally owned joint venture. The new plant will be producing 1.3- and 2.4-litre gasoline engines for models Accord, Odyssey and Fit in 2009, the paper said.

The collaboration of two famous Japanese car companies will also supply these gasoline engines to some of the cars made under its name. These engines are sure to have the same quality. Only the number of units produced are going to be different but the Japanese car maker assures that they will still be doing the same quality engine parts like before.

The Honda Motor Corporation is the second largest car maker in Japan second to the Toyota Motor Corporation. Honda is also the maker of the first ever hybrid car in the US car market, the Honda Insight, which later stopped its production because of its prize and because of the existence of the Prius.

A few days ago, Charles Gassenheimer, the chairman of Ener1, Inc. came out in the headlines on Fox Business News. According to Gassenheimer, by the end of 2008, the alternative energy company will carry out its automotive Lithium-ion battery to several markets.

Here are some added quotes courtesy of The Auto Channel:

"Our batteries have already been tested by the United States Advanced Battery Consortium, which is General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. We are the only battery company today using this Lithium-ion technology, which has met or exceeded all of the Big Three's requirements, especially and most importantly best-in-class in safety," Mr. Gassenheimer told viewers of the Fox morning broadcast "CEO Corner".

"We have already announced a commercial contract with Think Electric Vehicle in Norway," Gassenheimer added, referring to a $70 million development and supply agreement signed in October. "It's the largest electric vehicle company in Europe. You will see our batteries in their cars by the end of 2008," the Ener1 chairman told interviewer Alexis Glick.

"This is really a supply problem," Gassenheimer commented to Fox, adding that the few U.S. companies currently involved in manufacturing Lithium-ion automotive batteries, rather than competing directly against each other, are collectively building a new industry. He says that Japanese automaker Toyota now accounts for 90 percent of the battery market for electrical transportation and that U.S. industry must rapidly catch up or risk ceding a major share of the new car market to foreign carmakers.

"Much of the world now, including Detroit, grasps that more efficient internal combustion engines and biofuels such as ethanol will not bring about the major environmental improvements and freedom from foreign oil that the times demand. That the Lithium-ion battery is the Holy Grail is now a given, and we and others have proven that it's a fully realizable technology for revolutionizing automotive transportation," said Mr. Gassenheimer.