Wheels and Tires From Street to Strip
Drag Race 101: Wheels and Tires. These essential components of your vehicle are often overlooked when changing from street to strip.
Tech Tips
DIY tech tips for wrenching, plus engine and tuning modifications for muscle cars, drag cars, and performance enhancement.
Tuning Tips: Letting the Engine Breathe
Drag Race 101 brings you tuning tips for letting your engine breathe better for maximum power and performance.
Axle Essentials for Racing and Performance, Part IV
When you need new (quality) axles, how do you measure for them? While it sounds simple enough, more than one person has made a critical error when it came to axle dimensions. And in most cases, once you have them, you have them. But we have a foolproof method for measuring for axles.
Axle Essentials for Racing and Performance, Part III
Part III of this series on axles looks at at the flange, housing ends and lightweight options for better racing and peformance.
Valve Springs Primer
Drag Race 101: Valve Springs Primer. Valve springs are probably the most overlooked part of the valve train when building an engine, whether it’s a daily driver econo-car or a full-blown race car.
Axle Essentials for Racing and Performance, Part II
In the past segment of our Axles 101 series, we looked at the material choices (and finishing options) for axles. If you recall, there’s […]
Choosing the Right Oil Pump for Your Strip Burner
Drag Race 101: Choosing the Right Oil Pump for Your Strip Burner. The right oil pump for your strip burner engine can allow your perfectly-designed and assembled engine to finally deliver the type of performance that you’ve spent hours poring over specs and designs for.
Axle Essentials for Racing and Performance, Part 1
Axles? What’s the big deal? Once you see a racecar that just pitched a wheel (most often with a chunk of the axle attached), you get a far better understanding of why axles are critical. Learn more about them in the first of this four part series.
Headers: Scavenging Games Part IV
Drag Race 101: Headers, Part IV Recall a few posts back, when we mentioned formulas and software that can help to figure out header dimensions? We’ll, […]
How to Create More Power With Your LS Crate Engine
An LS crate engine is already very powerful, but just in case you’re looking for more power, here are some cost effective ways to get more horsepower.