Feb 16, 2018 | News, Pistons/Piston Pins, Top Stories |
By Titus Bloom: “It’s hard for me to be persuaded on the merits of piston balancing,” said a leading oval track engine builder recently. “While operating, the piston is being thrust up against one side of the cylinder wall,” he continued, “wedged in one direction on...
Oct 31, 2017 | Engine Builds, News, Racing Matters, Top Stories |
By Alfie Bilk: Jon Kaase has won this year’s Amsoil Engine Masters Challenge Vintage class with a 473ci 1958 MEL (Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln) engine. Exploring the classic turf in distinctive fashion, it was not the first time Kaase had arrived with an unorthodox relic...
Nov 3, 2016 | News, Top Stories |
By Alfie Bilk: “I once saw a nitrous oxide system concealed within a brake booster,” says Nitrous Supply’s Mike Thermos. “The illicit charge was transmitted by way of the vacuum line and into the intake manifold. Another bamboozle I recall prevailed by...
Nov 1, 2016 | Top Stories |
Earlier we published a story explaining the function and benefit of the tuned mass damper to the racer. This device received much of the credit for winning the 2005 Formula One World Championship for Renault. So successful was its implementation it was banned. Still,...
Oct 1, 2016 | Top Stories |
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...
Jan 28, 2016 | News, Top Stories |
By Ben Mozart Photography courtesy of Jim White When Tom “the Mongoose” McEwen, now 76, speaks of racing you are often struck by his power of recall and his perceptiveness, which is never more apparent than when he gets on the subject of race tire development. “The...
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