Installing a Clutch and Light Flywheel in a 2.5-Swap MX-5
Installing a new clutch while you swap a tired old engine out of the car is a good idea. It’s one of those “while...
How to Choose a Clutch for Street, Track Days, Time Trial and Racing
The process of taking a production car and converting it for use in racing or high-performance street driving, or perhaps something that can do...
Clutch Player – Installing a clutch on a Spec Miata engine the easy way
Depending on where you look, the two men credited with inventing the modern automotive clutch more than 120 years ago were two Frenchmen, Louis-Rene...
Swapping a 2.5-liter Into an NC Chassis MX-5
There are lots of resources on the web about what it takes to perform a 2.5 swap in an NC chassis MX-5, and even...
Cog Choice – How to Choose the Right Gear Ratios
Gears are expensive and hard to get to, so we are all motivated to get the right transmission and final drive gear ratios in...
Bracing a Miata Differential
If you want to be competitive in Spec Miata, you need the 4.30:1 Torsen or Mazda Motorsports differential. Most racers simply find a factory...
Reducing Rotating Mass – Lightweight Flywheels and Clutches Unleash More Power
Flywheels are necessary on piston engines because they preserve the momentum from one combustion stroke to the next. Early engines were so inefficient they...
Reinventing the Clutch
For all practical purposes, the automotive clutch that has been in use for much of the last century was conceived by the Borg &...
The Advantages of Cryogenic Processing
The biggest misconceptions about cryogenic processing are that it can change the size of parts and lead to brittle components. Those misconceptions can be...
HPDE46: How to Replace Shifter Bushings
In all candor, just going in and replacing the shifter bushings is too much work for the rewards it yields. Now that the job...
