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.
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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, […]
Headers: Scavenging Games Part III
Getting a handle on exhaust speed is extremely important (exhaust speed is the determined by the diameter and length of the primary pipe). But it’s the not only critical component in a header.
Headers: Scavenging Games Part II
Drag Race 101: Headers, Part II. We look at the effect of wave scavenging on header configuration.
Compressed Air at the Track
You never know when you’re going to need compressed air to inflate tires, run a rattle gun, or get yourself out of some backbreaking work.
Star Wars Axle Housings Part IV: Aluminum Modular Housings
Over the past weeks, we’ve taken a close look at fabricated (sheet metal) Ford housings. They’re absolutely trick pieces of work (and they work well […]
Star Wars Axle Housings Part III: Fabricated Ford Housings
In past segments of our “Star Wars Axle Housing” series, we looked at how and why the fabricated housing first became available. We also looked […]
Star Wars Axle Housings Part II: Fabricated Ford Housings
Part II of this series looks at the basics of a custom fabricated rear axle housing. You might be surprised at the thought and the technology that goes into one of these pieces.