Tuning Tips: Squeezing Out More Power
Drag Race 101: Tuning Tips: Squeezing Out More Power. Smaller ways to boost efficiency and reliability for better performance.
General Engine
EFI for Hot Rods and Drag Cars
Drag Race 101: EFI for Hod Rods and Drag Cars. Although fuel injection has been around almost as long as cars have, it’s only been within the past 20 years or so that fuel injection systems have really been viable options for those with a desire to go fast, quickly.
Tuning Tips: Do Bigger Carbs Mean More Gulps of Fuel?
Drag Race 101: Tuning Tips for the Drag Strip Part II. Tips for getting more fuel to the engine via the carb now that you have more air circulation and the ignition installed.
Tuning Tips: Letting the Engine Breathe
Drag Race 101 brings you tuning tips for letting your engine breathe better for maximum power and performance.
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.