Civic Duties: Building a Honda Civic for Street and Track
I started racing karts at age 5, and since then I have enjoyed the speed and cornering forces that you feel when racing. Near...
Budget Build: Honda Challenge Part 4 – The Powertrain
Every racecar driver wants more power. For our budget Honda Challenge build, we wanted more power, too. The problem was that pesky rulebook. More...
Weight Transfer – the C5 Corvette Already Has Good Weight Distribution, and Here’s How...
While walking the pits at an IMSA race at Sonoma Raceway, NASA Utah racer George Smith noticed something about the pro-built Corvettes that was...
Built to Spec – Borla’s new racing exhaust systems for Miatas raise the bar...
It seems a bit curious at first why Borla would decide to build an entire exhaust system for one class of race car. The...
Budget Build: Honda Challenge, Part 1 – Finding and Stripping the Right Platform
As racers, we do a fair amount of bench racing. During the off-season we sit behind our computers and mock up a possible new...
Project Spec E46: Sourcing and Stripping a Car
A few years ago, I wrote a series on building a Spec E30 as an average guy, doing a home build in his garage....
Project Spec E46: Rear Suspension and Other Details
Before reassembling the rear subframe on a Spec E46, you must weld in a rear subframe reinforcement kit. I sourced mine from Condor Speed...
Transformative Processes – Preparing a production vehicle for spec-class racing
In the early days of sports car racing, most cars were based on stock, street vehicles. In the late 1940s through the 1950s, you...
Under The Gun: A Father-Son Duo Install a Cage In a Spec MX-5 Challenge...
With the racing season’s start less than two months away, Wyatt Couch and his father Dave were starting to sweat. The warm glow of...
Innocence Lost – Turning a garage-queen BMW E92 M3 into a proper Time Trial...
It’s funny what racing does to the human mind. One minute we’re capable of making rational decisions and the next we’re tearing apart a...
