Why it’s important to keep the pin spinning: In each firing cycle the piston pin carries the weight of the entire car

by App Studios | Oct 27, 2014 | News | 0 comments

By Titus Bloom, October 13, 2014 Race engine progress follows a basic pattern: As power increases, problems emerge and as the ingenuity of the race engineer solves them other problems appear. Race engines operate in a state of perpetual crisis. In the 1970s Top Fuel...

Engine blocks have changed, so have cylinder honing practices

by App Studios | Oct 27, 2014 | Published Stories | 0 comments

Here’s how to apply new procedures and gain power By Alfie Bilk, September 2014: In the past two decades the metallurgy in engine blocks has changed—and not by a small amount. Cylinders are now much harder and with modern honing practices they accommodate rings...

Shifty Mach l. Power increase demands quick clutch upgrade

by App Studios | Oct 27, 2014 | Press Releases | 0 comments

Written by Titus Bloom, September 2014 In its eleventh year, Gary Winter’s ’03 Mustang Mach I received a clutch upgrade. Nothing very remarkable there, you might think, as engine power increases so, too, must clutch holding power. Nor is the job arduous; that is if...

Unwelcome drama for Speed Demon: ill-fated tumble on Salt Flats

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By Archie Bosman, October 24, 2014 Bonneville, UT: On September 12, 2014 while hurtling along the Bonneville Salt Flats about three miles from the starting point, the intrepid George Poteet lost control of the Speed Demon, which flew 550ft distance before...

Issue 33

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