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MAHLE Piston Tech Video: Checking Out Skirt Wear and What It Can Tell You About Your Engine
Engines tell stories. They tell stories by how they run and what type of wear that they have. That being said, you need to be able to read the story to understand what the engine is telling you and...
Engine Tech Video: Why A Simple Rocker Arm Swap Is Potentially The Best Thing You Can Do To Your LS Engine
It is easy to put the cart before the horse when you start putting a high performance engine together over the span of time. Maybe you go with an intake that isn’t that great with the cam you...
MAHLE Tech Video: How-To Properly Measure Piston To Bore Clearance
This is a great how-to video and it is an illustration of the steps that dedicated engine builders take when assembling engines. It is not just about bolting stuff together and praying that it works,...
The Tech Behind MAHLE’s Gold Series Piston Coating – Here’s How It Works, How It Helps
One of the things that hot rodders of generations past could likely never conceive of is the amount of technology involved in the creation of modern pistons. With the ever advancing science and...
To The Maxx: Our 572 Big Block Chevrolet Makes 850 On The Motor With ProMaxx 340 Heads
(Words and Photos by Richard Holdener) What does it take to make big power these days? Well, the easiest route is obviously using some type of power adder like a turbo, supercharger or even the...
Stop Guessing: Racepak Continues With Their Series Talking About Data Loggers – Watch Here
Here’s a trio of videos that could change the way you go racing. Why? Racepak has embarked on a comprehensive series of videos that start at ground level and explain what data loggers do, how...
Piston Tech Video: Mahle Motorsport Looks At Oil Support Rings – Why They’re There And What They Do
Here’s some cool and basic tech video from our pals at Mahle Motorsport. This video talks about oil support rings, what they do and why they exist. For those of you out there that are seasoned...
Amazing Engine Tech: SAM Tech eliminates The Competition By Wringing 825 hp and 8,300 RPM From An NHRA Legal LS7 Stocker Mill
(Words and photos by Stephen Kim) – Any bozo can slap a supercharger on a stock 505 horsepower LS7 small-block and pick up another 200 hp. Yawn. Increasing output that same 200 hp through...
Deep Tech: Compensating for the Dozens of Variable that Affect Engine Balance Requires Serious Research and Experimentation
(By Judson Massingill) – For decades, machinists and engine builders have been taught that when balancing a crankshaft, its counterweights should equal 100 percent of the rotating mass and 50...
SEMA 2015: Mercury Racing Has Insane Crate Engine Offerings – DOHC LS7?!
Mercury Racing is coming into the LS crate engine market in a way no one else has even thought of to this point. The company that has made its name building high performance engines on the water and...
Power Adders: Part 1 Turbo Boost Baby! It’s All About That Boost, Bout That Boost!
Our buddy Richard Holdener is a nut. He’s also pretty smart, but don’t tell him we told you that. He’s also probably got more time on an engine dyno than most professional engine...
Video: Header Tech Tips From Dynatech – Is Bigger Always Better?
It seems that as hot rodders and hot rodding has evolved there is a greater understanding of a high performance engine being a matched set of components and systems as opposed to being a big grab bag...
Going EFI? Have Fuel Pump Questions? Aeromotive’s FAQ Section May Give You The Answers You Need
When you are diving into uncharted hot rodding waters in your world, arming yourself with information is the best thing you can do. Thankfully companies like Aeromotive know that an informed buyer is...
