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Big Brakes for Small Wheels
Upgrading Beyond The Factory Components Has Become Very Popular more |
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How To Install An Aftermarket Shifter
Providing A Measure Of Reliability Not Normally Associated With Stock Production Shifters more |
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Car Craft: How To Build Headers
Header Kits For Oddball Combinations, Though They Require Some Fabrication Skills more |
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How To Set Pinion Angle
Pinion angle simply refers to the angle of the differential’s pinion in relation to the driveshaft. But ask 10 guys about optimal... more |
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Living With A Carburetor…Every Day
New-car makers haven't rolled a carbureted car off the line since the '80s, but it's plainly obvious that carbs have quite a lead on fuel... more |
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Professional Pipes In Your Driveway!
It used to be that the exhaust system was an overlooked part of the total performance package. Look under a bunch of cars at a show, and... more |
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Build The Ultimate Muncie
M22: it’s the magic RPO code for GM’s ultimate musclecar four-speed. Immortalized by street racers and gearheads, it’s known... more |
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Installing The GM Ramjet 350
When it comes to research, engineering, and design, few aftermarket companies can match the resources of an OE manufacturer, especially... more |
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Ultimate Malibu LT1 Swap
It’s now been a year since we first introduced our project ’78 Malibu (The Ultimate Malibu .) If you’ve been following... more |
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Easy Paint & Body
Self-expression and creativity are two things that inspire car junkies like us to dole out excessive sums of cash and abnormal amounts of... more |
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How To Paint Flames Video
As promised, here’s some video from the spraying-flames shoot. Just click on the filmstrip icon under the photo and enjoy! more |
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Double Your Displacement: The Great 455 Swap
The poor car. With its Hurst-shifted Muncie four-speed, buckets and console and factory tach and gauges, it looked every part of a ’65... more |
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How To Align A Fender
Any good bodyman will tell you that surface prep is at least as important as the paint itself. Cheap paint over crisp, straight body lines... more |
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Corner Carving The Bird
One of the advantages of building a third-gen GM F-body is having a pretty stout chassis to start with. When they were new, the Z28 and... more |
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Cooler Chevelle
One of the recent car crafting trends is something we’d never have predicted if you’d have asked us 10 years ago. That trend is... more |
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G-Rated
We’ve built everything from stock 289s to monstrous 496ci blown big- blocks and dumped them into every conceivable four-wheel make,... more |
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How To Build A Rearend
It can be hard to purchase parts that don’t offer some sort of aesthetic appeal or an obvious increase in power. Take the fuel... more |
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Quadra-Jet
Quadra-junk, Quadra-bog—you’ve heard them all before. Why do so many gearheads love to hate the Rochester Quadrajet? Because... more |
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Quickest Discs
Anyone who thinks four-wheel manual drum brakes are “good enough” for his car must have never driven it in Los Angeles. Sure,... more |
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Easy Electrical Troubleshooting
Electrical work does not have to be a mystery. Unlike bodywork (which is more akin to art than science), electricity is governed by... more |
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Handle With Care
Most of us view performance handling as a considerably lesser priority than a killer drivetrain. We think that’s because a torquey ... more |
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Bis-Carving Corners
Car restoration is full of exhilarating experiences—like breaking in the cam on a fresh motor, rolling the freshly painted shell out... more |
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Polishing The Fire-Turd
We have a confession to make. Even after freshening our ’88 Firebird with new paint and interior and a trick set of wheels, the car... more |
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At-Home Alignment Made Easy
Have you just completely rebuilt your front suspension? Or maybe your frame-off, ground-up rebuild is finally ready to come off the... more |
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At-Home Alignment Made Easy
Have you just completely rebuilt your front suspension? Or maybe your frame-off, ground-up rebuild is finally ready to come off the... more |
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