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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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Clutch Basics 101
If you’re a racer, you know that the clutch is the vital linkage between the engine and the transmission. If you don’t have it... 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 the presence of... more |
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Dirt Car Shock Tuning
Dirt racing is increasingly becoming a buy-it-and-bolt-it-on sport. One of the few ways to get an advantage over the next guy when it comes... more |
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Shock Absorber - Shock Dyno - Reading Between The Lines
At every level of racing shock tuning is becoming increasingly important. These days it’s the rare NASCAR Winston Cup team that... more |
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Understanding Your Shock Absorbers
What’s inside your shocks and what can you do with them to help your race car’s handling on the track? To get a look inside and... more |
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Need A New Front Clip?
Don’t worry, it happens to everybody. Bumps and scrapes, that type of thing. We’re not talking about your ill-advised attempt to... more |
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Anti-Dive - Suspension Tech
Anti-dive is a suspension parameter that affects the amount of suspension deflection when the brakes are applied. When a car is... 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 throw out... 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 what you’ve... 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 another.... more |
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Driver Cooling Systems - Don’t Be A Hot Head
For many of you the month of February means cold weather, snow and not much racing other than the famous race that takes place in the... 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 establish a level of... 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 filter. They... more |
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NASCAR Crew Chief - A Crew Chief’s Dilemma
As a NASCAR Winston Cup crew chief, you have many things to concentrate on. It’s a battle between what’s best for the performance... more |
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Safety: Racing’s Burning Question
Over the past two seasons, five stock-car drivers have died as a result of injuries sustained in head-on collisions with concrete retaining... more |
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Seat Belt Installation: What You Need to Know
The restraint assembly in your race car consists of several components, each with a specific function. The system is built to control a... more |
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Seat Padding - The Proof Is In the Padding
One of the most overlooked and least appreciated aspects of modern seat technology these days is the padding that surrounds the cold... 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 it ain’t... more |
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Chassis Tech - Chassis Rigidity
How rigid should your car’s chassis be? Generally speaking, you would want the chassis to be as rigid as it can be for handling... 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, relationship to engine... 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 commented,... 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 much about the... 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 combustion gases in the... more |
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Metal Shaping - Airplanes To Air Conditioners
In order to fully explain how an English wheel works, we need to think of making a pie. Therefore, let’s begin in the kitchen instead... more |
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