Tech Tips: Shop Floor Wisdom for Your GM Muscle Car Part 2
Here’s our second batch of tips. Check ‘em out and stay tuned; the countdown has just begun!
Articles by Wayne Scraba
Tech Tips: Shop Floor Wisdom for Your GM Muscle Car Part 1
Working on a vintage musclecar project can become downright trying. On the other hand, finishing a task properly provides a feeling of fulfillment and satisfaction that’s tough to beat.
Lines, Clamps and Fasteners for Your Race Car
Tubing, hoses and wire bundles are pretty much the norm in any car – race or street. How you fasten those bits is important too.
How to Set The Idle on Holley Carburetors
In this piece, Wayne Scraba shows us how to adjust the idle of a Holley carb.
Back to Basics: Holley Jet Extensions
When a Holley 4150 or 4500-series carb is mounted normally, fuel rushes toward the primary jets as the car accelerates. It also means fuel runs away from the secondary jets. Not good. But today, the cure is simple.
Clamping Solutions: Clean, Secure Ways to Secure Hoses
There’s a lot more to hose clamps than just the conventional worm gear jobs that we’re so accustomed to. And if you sit back and look at the engine tucked in your race car, you might find there are more hose clamps involved than you first imagined.
Muffled Mayhem: How to Quiet Your Engine Part 4
Installation of the Blackheart exhaust systems is very straightforward. Here’s how it goes together on a first generation Camaro or 1968-74 Nova.
Muffled Mayhem: How to Quiet Your Engine Part 3
Over the last couple of issues, we took a close, hard look at high tech mufflers and exhaust system components.
Muffled Mayhem: How to Quiet Your Engine Part 2
In the high performance world, it has been pointed out that balance pipes have two possible attributes: increased power and reduced noise. We’ve had personal experience with some of the x-style crossovers, and they definitely improve performance.
Muffled Mayhem: How to Quiet Your Engine Part 1
It wasn’t that long ago that exhaust systems in general and mufflers in particular were considered a necessary evil with the performance crowd. Noise meant power. Or at least, that was the consensus.