Tuning Tips: Letting the Engine Breathe
Drag Race 101 brings you tuning tips for letting your engine breathe better for maximum power and performance.
General Engine
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.
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.
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.
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[Drag Race 101] Energize Your LS Engine for the Strip with a Turbo
How do you give yourself a competitive advantage on the strip with your LS crate engine? What about a turbocharger?
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[Drag Race 101] Turn Your LS Crate Engine into a Strip Burner
You’ve just bought your LS crate engine. Now you want to massage it to turn it into a strip burning monster. Here’s some of what you’ll need to do just that.
Is Carburetion or Injection the Way to Go?
When I started building performance engines for cars a lifetime ago, we had two choices when it came to getting the air and fuel into our engines: We could choose a carburetor or we could choose a bigger carburetor.
Paper Tigers: Dyno Testing Our LS Bracket Motor Combination
To come full circle as we build our LS engine, we run the engine through a computer simulated dyno to test its effectiveness on the strip.
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[Drag Race 101] Building an LS Bracket Motor from Scratch Part II
In the last segment of our hypothetical LS motor build; we picked the parts for the top end. This time we have to “contain” the carnage with the bottom end of the motor.
Building an LS Bracket Motor from Scratch Part I
Building your LS Bracket Motor from scratch involves learning more about the engine and considering what you ultimately want from the experience and engine. Part 1 walks you through the basics.