Another Day at The Office: Making Your Car Fit You
What do ergonomics mean when it comes to a vintage vehicle? Can you make your car fit you?
What do ergonomics mean when it comes to a vintage vehicle? Can you make your car fit you?
In a past issue, we dug into the basics of rebuilding a set of drum brakes. Why drums? Simple. A large percentage of vintage US-built cars and light trucks came standard with drum brakes on at least one axle – some with drum brakes on all four corners.
Drum brakes – remember them? A few decades ago, they were the norm rather than the exception. And even when disc brakes made their debut, 99% of those cars had drums on the rear axle.
When it comes to installing an automatic transmission, it’s easy to get lulled into thinking: “This is a piece of cake – all I have to worry about is the trans and converter”. Not quite so fast.
A lot of racing takes place under controlled conditions. The pavement or dirt is a known factor. The weather conditions are similar to those of previous races. The location is easily accessible and relatively comfortable to work in.
If you point your browser back to that segment, you’ll find the charger is extremely versatile. And while it works perfectly for most 12 and 16 volt battery applications, there are some batteries that may require a different internal setting.
Moroso’s Street & Strip battery charger is great for charging your track vehicle between “resting” weeks, and much, much more.
In part four of our wet sump oil pump series, Wayne Scraba takes a final look at the Melling pumps, and offers a series of oil pump install tech tips
In part three of our wet sump oil pump series, Wayne Scraba looks at at several modern, high tech solutions to the needs for increased oil pump performance.
Part two of our series on wet sump oil pumps looks at why bigger can be better when it comes to oil pumps and investigate how that concept can also go horribly wrong.