Steering feel: In all probability 90% of oval track racers don’t know how to acquire it

by App Studios | Mar 19, 2020 | News, Power Steering | 0 comments

By Archie Bosman–  Kennesaw, GA: Using the correct flow valve: Electric steering in mass-produced road cars is now widespread. It is a little like ethanol in our fuel: you’ll be hard pressed to find an enthusiast who favors it yet we are stuck with it. But...

World’s first sequential retrofit transmission for Corvette:

by App Studios | Oct 1, 2016 | Top Stories | 13 comments

By Ben Mozart –  Photos by Moore Good Ink: Reece Cox is a man who immerses himself in details. For nineteen years he has served Corvette and Camaro owners, supplying them primarily with race parts. In the early nineteen nineties, he functioned as crew chief at...

What makes turbocharged race engines so appealing? Actually, it’s rampant power & low maintenance

by App Studios | May 2, 2016 | Induction, Tech How-To | 1 comment

By Titus Bloom, Photography by MGI and Pro Line, Ball Ground, Georgia: In the lightning fast drag racing category known as Pro Mod three different types of power units compete: nitrous assisted, supercharged and turbocharged. Pro Line Race Engines are specialists in...

How Kaase created a cylinder head for modern street-strip use

by App Studios | Mar 10, 2016 | Read More Tech | 11 comments

Written by Moore Good Ink. If you were engaged in a conversation with a barmaid and she asked you to illustrate differing valve angles and to explain their relevance in simple terms, you might be challenged. So here’s how it’s done. In addition we depict the cylinder...

How Renault F1 won a World championship by creating the tuned mass damper

by App Studios | Feb 25, 2016 | News | 2 comments

By Fergus Ogilvy: At the end of the last century, probably the autumn of 1999, senior R&D man at Renault F1, Dave Hamer, was asked to investigate what could be done to stabilize their wind tunnel model. At that time it was a half-scale model, fifty percent the...