by admin | Mar 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
With the factory churning out everyday cars with more and more horsepower, it’s easy to become stigmatized. It’s also no surprise that the rise in turbo junkyard engines have made it easier than ever to make crazy power. Coupled with a seemingly never ending...
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | Drag Racing
In the world of drag racing, there is an important distinction between quicker and faster. Quicker basically means that the car gets through the quarter,eighth, or other distance in less time than another car. While faster means that they get there with more speed...
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | Tools
Improving our fabrication skills is something I know that we all want to do. Sometimes we can accomplish that with practice, other times it involves acquiring new tools and learning how to use them. In this case, I picked up a new to me bench top Lathe. This little...
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | El Camino
If you’re wondering how well a manual conversion can work on a G body El Camino, I’m finally getting to the bottom of the issues I’ve been having with this one. There’s quite a few things that needed to be addressed and I found an issue that I found extremely...
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | Road Racing
What happens when you take an underpowered, ill handling car that’s been sitting for 6 months to a road race course on Amateur Night? You have yourself a recipe for a great time! That’s exactly what I decided to do! My local road course, Utah Motorsports Campus, does...
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | El Camino
The problems with this manual brake conversion seem like they will never stop! The El Camino continues to have less than stellar brakes and I went through everything in an attempt to make these brakes stop the car. Let’s talk about all the things that I went through...
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | G Body
I’m Upgrading the 1981 Monte Carlo’s ignition with the MSD 83647! I’ll walk you through how to replace the original HEI ignition module in a GM HEI distributor. Some of the benefits of the MSD ignition module include improved performance and reliability. This is...
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | Health
As automotive enthusiasts we’re often more worried about our cars than ourselves. We know that when things are out of balance with our cars that it can really tear things up. Let’s face it, when a driveshaft is out of balance, it can tear through the floor...
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | Drag Racing
This last week, the drag racing world received some disturbing news. 3 tracks all announced their closure. Atco in New Jersey, Emerald Coast in Florida and Redline Raceway in Texas all announced that they were closing up. Redline Raceway had timing equipment stolen...
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | G Body
The GM HEI Ignition has been in use since 1974 and it’s simple to use design make it easy to put into just about anything. These distributors are fairly simple with one a few parts that can cause a problem. This 1981 Chevrolet Monte Carlo has a Crank, No Start...
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