Jan 23, 2017 | News, Racing Matters |
By Alfie Bilk: If you were seeking a guidebook on how not to carve out a career in motor sport, Greg Brown’s story might be a good starting place. Following two years of studying numerous concepts and with a prototype partially complete, he undertook the daunting task...
Sep 8, 2016 | Racing Matters |
By Archie Bosman: Before starting this valve spring story, I thought I had a grasp of its mechanics, but then as it developed it became ever more complicated until it reached a point where I doubted if I had any intuitive understanding of how valve springs and their...
Aug 10, 2016 | Induction, News, Racing Matters, Tech How-To |
Bertie S. Brown: TorqStorm Superchargers’s product manager, Chris Beardsley, has dealt with thousands of incoming queries in the first decade of the firm’s history. Here are five of the most common: 1) Compression ratios and intercoolers “The compression ratio...
Jul 26, 2016 | Engine Builds, News, Racing Matters, Tech How-To |
By Archie Bosman: It’s easy to underestimate the cost of a deficient harmonic balancer. But they can have a profound effect on the fortunes of the able race engine—a natural enemy of crank and bearings. With the engine running, camshafts and crankshafts vibrate...
Jun 2, 2016 | News, Pistons/Piston Pins, Racing Matters, Tech How-To |
By Sam Logan: In our racing world we tend to think of ourselves as the elite corps. But in pistons and more particularly piston ring design, it is not our racing brains that are the driving force but those of the Original Equipment Manufacturers. It would be a...
Mar 8, 2016 | Racing Matters |
By Titus Bloom: Research of racing parts invariably includes discussions with race engine builders and manufacturers. During their course, jewels of information can emerge, as was the case when we were developing a story following JE’s announcement of their...
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