Extreme Plateau Honing: State-of-the-Art Bore Finishing
Research done by Ford Motor Company and the U.S. Department of Energy showed that roughly 45 percent of engine friction comes from the piston-ring-to-cylinder-wall...
Head Gasket Technology – Exploring and Addressing Cylinder Head Lift
The quick-and-dirty description of an engine’s internal combustion process is suck, squeeze, bang, blow. But that’s not entirely accurate. In reality, it’s suck, squeeze,...
Eight Tricks To Make Working A Cooling System Easier
If you like to play with cars, if you put your car on a racetrack for HPDE and especially if you race cars, you...
Exhaustive Research – When It Comes to Exhaust Outlets, Racecars Adhere to the Rule...
Exhaust tips are a strange thing to take pictures of, you might think. To be honest, I admit that it is kind of strange,...
The Honda Challenge: Swapping an Engine in One Night
If you’ve been going to the track for any length of time, you likely have witnessed an overnight paddock engine swap. Intense competitors, ready...
Breathing Apparatus – Installing a Banks Monster exhaust system on a Duramax diesel-powered Silverado...
The only sound as common as a loud racecar in the paddock at any NASA event is the clattering of a diesel engine. Diesel...
Increasing Octane – Getting the right octane rating for your track car
A lot of NASA HPDE drivers drive their cars to and from the track, and of those, there’s probably a decent amount who change...
Putting Some Thunder in the Tundra – Adding a cold air intake and aftermarket...
We all spend countless hours prepping our racecars. However, many of us have another vehicle, which gets us to work, the local hardware store,...
Head Case – The NASA rulebook on Spec Miata cylinder head modifications is clear...
Here’s the reality in Spec Miata. The days of finding a cheap donor car with 100,000 miles on the clock, adding the required safety...
HPDE46 – Overcoming Deferred Maintenance on a ZHP E46 to Make It “Trackable”
The idea behind finding a new-to-me car was simple. I wanted a fun daily driver I could take to the track every now and...
