Basics for building a custom steering column

by Susan Moore | Feb 11, 2016 | News, Tech How-To | 5 comments

By Archie Bosman: Hot rods create an environment that removes us far from the chaos of the real world. And their custom innovations are the luxuries they bring to our lives. For some production shops, developing a one-off design is not in the cards. Others, in...

Tips on inspecting the multi-disc oval track racing clutch

by App Studios | Feb 1, 2016 | Clutches, News, Tech How-To | 0 comments

By Jim Mozart, Photos by Moore Good Ink: Commonly, multi-disc racing clutches vary from 4.25in to 7.25in. Racers often favor the smallest diameter clutches available because they believe an advantage can be found in its lighter rotating mass. Yet experience...

Flatness: How gas ports and flat ring grooves succeed with lightweight racing rings

by Susan Moore | Nov 19, 2015 | Pistons/Piston Pins, Racing Matters, Tech How-To | 0 comments

By Sam Logan: A great many modern drag racing engines are equipped with lightweight piston rings. These rings require combustion pressures delivered through gas ports to achieve complete ring seal. Horizontal gas ports are used in oval track racing pistons to avoid...

Custom Pistons

by Susan Moore | Nov 12, 2015 | Pistons/Piston Pins, Published Stories, Tech How-To | 0 comments

Any experienced racing man knows that the components of a successful race car should be compatible—all working in concert. But this formula is never more critical than with engine builders. Professional race engine builders are profoundly aware of how engine parts...

First power steering tester reveals more than you might wish to know

by App Studios | Oct 2, 2015 | Power Steering, Press Releases, Top Stories | 0 comments

By Titus Bloom It’s common knowledge that the entry of one foreign particle in the power steering system can damage the pump. Even if the pump survives the ordeal the refuse will momentarily zap engine power each time it passes through the rotor housing easily...

Of five major threats to a clutch system, what would you consider the most forbidding?

by Susan Moore | Jul 7, 2015 | Clutches, News | 0 comments

Archie Bosman: As you sit quietly reading these lines, a whirl of activity is taking place in the bell housing. Let’s imagine for a moment the clutch assembly could express its greatest anxiety, what might it be? Might it be the use of excessively harsh friction...