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Ford To Build $200 million Wind Tunnel Facility
Ford Invests $200 Million On New Wind Tunnel To Improve Performance and MPG Ford’s amazing on-track success has not come by accident. Passion, dedication and a massive engineering and testing effort...
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Have Racers Gone to the Extreme? (Plus Q&A)
How Far is Too Far It’s a problem I have encountered many times in my consulting career. Teams just cannot be satisfied with what they have that many times is very successful. Either they miss-apply...
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Talking Cobra Jet Mustang With Michelle Bongiovanni
“A lot of them don’t believe me,” says Michelle Bongiovanni when we asked her what her classmates at Penn State University say when they hear she drives an 8-second Super Stocker and once did a video...
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Day 3: Building The ARP Street Rodder Road Tour 1957 Chevy Convertible
Assembling More Of The Gold Star Body Panels And Installing Wilwood Brakes On the Roadster Shop Chassis Day three at Woody’s Hot Rodz saw a frenzy of activity getting the ARP/Street Rodder 1957 Chevy...
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GALLERY: 2017 Winter Showdown
With NASCAR racers on hand to try to spoil the party, local Super Late Model ace Derek Thorn secured a major pay day during the 2017 Winter Showdown at Kern County Raceway this past weekend. Thorn put...
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Wrenchin’ Wednesday: Anti-Gravity Bolts With Axle Grease
Today’s Wrenchin’ Wednesday is a simple one, but we’ve all faught that one burried bolt. You know the one, hiding where no mortal hand could fit, often in an orientation that does not make you friends...
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Dodge Challenger Demon Teaser #6
Dodge has been slowly releasing information about their forthcoming drag strip menace, the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon. Their latest video and release show the benefit of having math on your side. The...
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Street Rodder reveals the latest and greatest new products
1965-1967 Impala G-Machine For the full-size 1965-1967 Chevy the Schwartz G-Machine chassis will roll right in place of the stock B-body frame and fit directly to the factory mount locations. No body...
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Rescuing a Rare 1979 Dodge Macho Power Wagon From Decades in a Garage
Macho Wagon Heading to New Home—Almost. Whoops! A friend from Michigan asked if I was interested in seeing a Dodge truck in an old garage. While I agree Dodge trucks are cool, it wasn’t something I was...
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Racecars Storm Rod Millen’s Leadfoot Festival
In 2012, Kiwi, off-road racer and Pike’s Peak winner Rod Millen and his wife Shelly (Mickey Thompson’s niece) hosted their first Leadfoot Festival in Hahei, a beautiful beach resort of New Zealand. It...
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Why Dirt Racers are Stacking Springs
The use of stacked springs has become commonplace among many top Dirt Late Model teams. It wasn’t always that way. As far as I know, the first test using stacked springs in a dirt late model occurred...
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Mopar Highlights From The Winternats In Pomona!
Mopars stand up and salute the Chrysler flag at the 2017 NHRA Winternationals. The NHRA kicked their season opener Winternationals in Pomona on February 9 -12, and despite being outnumbered by the...
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Timeless Kustoms Built a Supercharged, Turbocharged, Widebody Mustang
Like the current crop of ponycars and sports cars coming from Detroit, Pro Touring cars are in the midst of an arms race. The battle to put the most power down has seen the proliferation of forced...
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Day 4: Building the ARP Street Rodder Road Tour 1957 Chevy Convertible
Body is going onto the chassis We’ve been following the construction of the 2017 ARP/Street Rodder Road Tour 1957 Chevrolet convertible sponsored by Chevrolet Performance at Chris Sondles Bright,...
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Installing A New Interior In A Tri-Five Chevy
The popularity of Tri-Five Chevys cannot be denied and while at one time there was an emphasis was on period-perfect restorations, today they are being built as street rods, customs, Gassers, and in...
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Sorting Out the Steering on an Advance Design Chevy Truck
We left off the last installment buttoning up the Classic Performance Products’ firewall-mount/underdash brake booster slash pedal assembly on the 1949 Chevy, promising we’d continue with the steering...
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Smokey Yunick Parts Are Under the Hood of This 15,000-Mile Unrestored 1969...
Guy Carpenter was a 19-year-old car nut back in 1967. He read all the car magazines he could afford, was a big racing fan, and spent a lot of his free time hanging out at the local Chevy dealership,...
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Freak Show Friday: An Actual mini-1969 Camaro
First of all we should state that Freak Show Friday does not ever knowingly use Photoshopped or photo-chopped images. For such serious matters as FSF, we have the highest of integrity. That being said,...
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A Homebuilt 1935 Dodge Truck Bought 50 Years Ago and On The Road Today
When Francis Mestayer found out that the 2016 Hot Rod Power Tour would be starting in his city, Baton Rouge, he was ready with a ride. After 2-1/2 years of work, his 1935 Dodge truck was done and ready...
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67th Sacramento Autorama: Sneak Preview!
It’s been a good couple decades since I’ve traveled north up Interstate 5 (via the skies above…) in February, destination Cal Expo, in the heart of the state capitol, Sacramento. Home of the California...
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