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Advanced Piston Ring Configuration - Ringing Up New Power
Check out the huge advancements made in the design of piston rings used in some high end engine configurations! more |
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Advanced Part Warping and Distortion Prevention - Honed To Perfection
Check out Millennium Products Corporation's huge advancements in finding ways to compensate for the "effective" distortion... more |
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Chevy Small Block Engine - The Little Engine That Could
Check out what makes the Chevy small block engine one of the best and most well known engines ever produced! more |
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Cylinder Block Honing - Honed To Perfection
It is widely recognized that cast, machined metal parts tend to have “memory” created from internal stresses. In... more |
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Header Repair
Here’s the scenario: It’s early Monday evening. You are home from work and have finally decided it’s time to... more |
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To Finish First, You Must First Finish ...
Having a durable engine that will run strong throughout the entire racing season is important to any racing driver for some... more |
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Race Car Performance Requirements - To Finish First, You Must First Finish
Check out some effective and easy tips to maintenance your engine for all the race car stresses that may arise. more |
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Performance Parts Used Correctly - Track Tech
Check out how to properly take advantage of your parts by tuning your engine for optimal power results! more |
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Horsepower Tips From The Pros
Sure, working in a Winston Cup engine shop has its disadvantages: long hours, constant pressure to find horsepower, having to... more |
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Less Weight, More Power
If you just put a newly rebuilt engine with extra horses in your race car, don’t let extra unneeded weight rob you of... more |
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Oil Pans For Power
Pardon the pun, but oil pan technology is a slippery subject. It’s often both ignored by one camp and overvalued by... more |
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Intake Manifold Tech - Outtakes On Intakes, Part II
In the first installment we dealt with the essentials of “spec” intake manifolds. The story was intended to... more |
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Monday Night Maintenance
I often get calls on Thursday or Friday morning from customers who changed their oil the night before and found debris in the... more |
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Ultra Pro Machining - Torque Factory
Remember the old saying, “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door?” Sorry folks, but... more |
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Exhaust & Header Tech - Exhaustive Choices
Don’t diminish the importance of proper header selection. Pipes are not just pipes. Their sizing, arrangement,... more |
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Intake Manifold Regulations - Outtakes On Intakes, Part I
In time-honored fashion, racers maintain a constant vigil on rules interpretation and loopholes. As Junior Johnson once... more |
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Mud-Proof Your Electrical Systems
Oil and water, Hatfields and McCoys, mud and your electrical systems—they just don’t mix well. You can’t do... more |
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Testing and Reading Your Spark Plugs
Simply put, getting the maximum power from any race engine is a function of the temperature, pressure and timing of... more |
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Finding Just A Bit More Horsepower
Finding horsepower depends mainly on what type of racing you are doing, what the rules are and what components the series... more |
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NASCAR Engine Build - Cookin’ Up Some Power
While Rudy and Ryan were spending sleepless nights after work building the Southern Force race car, engine builder Charlie... more |
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Race-Ready Holley 390 Carburetor: Unlocking The Secrets
Thirty other guys are on the track with you, all running a 390cfm Holley carburetor mandated by the rules. One guy is out... more |
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Fuel System Basics: Getting Fuel from Point A to Point B
The best engine in the world is nothing more than an expensive boat anchor if it cannot get the proper amount of fuel. An... more |
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Plumbing Your Fuel System
We all know the engine supplies power to the race car, but what supplies power to the engine? Fuel is where the engine’s... more |
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Computer Tuning Software - Electronic Performance Evaluation
The time is fast approaching when pc-based software will become commonplace in the selection, matching and evaluation of... more |
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The Highs & Lows Of A Cooling System
Chris Paulsen is president of C&R Racing, Inc. based in Indianapolis, Indiana. C&R Racing manufactures racing ... more |
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