Video guy Jason Lewis’s Ford Maverick that has been repowered with a Viper V10 is one of the nastiest home crafted projects we have seen in a while.  Jason is a regular schmo like the rest of us, so he isn’t tearing through the build at light speed, but with the recent generosity of a [...]

We saw lots of hot brakes and clamping forces at work during the 2012 Run to the Shore, but even the big binders on the pro touring cars have nothing on the stoppers air liners use. Hauling all that weight down to a stop in the amount of time you have before running off the [...]

We’ve been talking a lot about tires around here over the last couple weeks. Mostly we’ve  been talking about high performance road tires as that’s what we’ll be bolting under the Caprice project to enhance the handling of the car. On the other end of the performance tire spectrum is the venerable drag slick. Invented [...]

There’s a reason that AFCO shocks are the choice of virtually every seriously fast small tire car in the country. They are the most tuneable, tweakable, and tailored pieces on the market. In this video you’ll see what we’re talking about as Mark Menscer of Menscer Motorsports talks about building shocks with the correct valving [...]

As we all know, one of the biggest pieces in being successful with building your own high performance engine is attention to detail. The details of keeping your work space clean and organized, the details of measuring, checking and rechecking everything, and the details of going the extra mile in doing it right all the [...]

Holley’s Avenger, HP, and Dominator EFI systems all have self learning capabilities, meaning that once you install the hard parts, you can literally fire the engine up, drive around, and the system will teach itself how much fuel to be feeding the engine as you go down the road. This is one of the many [...]

While EFI is on the end of everyone’s tongue these days, there is still a booming marketplace for carbs and for guys and girls who like to tinker, tune, and experiment, they are devilish fun. On the street or at the track, tuning your carb for optimum performance is important. Obviously at the track your [...]