Budget Build: Honda Challenge Part 3 – Suspension and Brakes
After we found our Honda Challenge project car for $500 at a tow yard, and then had Autopower put a roll cage in it,...
Budget Build: Honda Challenge Part 2 – Safety, Safety, Safety
When building a racecar, you have to make the thing safe before you can make it fast. The major difference between the car you...
Rocket Science – Achieving Better Engine Cooling With Proper Aerodynamic Principles
Keeping a C5 Corvette cool on a racetrack in 100-degree heat isn’t easy. Just ask NASA Utah’s George Smith, who had been trying different...
A Mini Goes Big – Adding a Wilwood big brake kit to a Mini...
The Mini Cooper S enjoys a reputation as fun, zippy little car that handles great. Now that prices on used S models have come...
Raising the Bar – AEM enhances air-fuel-ratio measurement with its new X-series wideband sensor...
When AEM released its first wideband air-fuel-ratio gauge, just a little more than a decade ago, car tuning was beginning to emerge as the...
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...
Bracing For Reality – Upgrading an E36 for the rigors of racing duty
The E36 is a great candidate for a racecar. One look at NASA’s German Touring Series will tell you that. The E36 strikes 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...
Wheel Hop – Causes, Effects and Cures
Standing starts are hard on a car, and there are a few NASA classes that begin races that way. A standing start is even...
Pad Knock-Back – What it is, how it happens — and what to do...
We’ve all seen the driver ahead of us dab the brakes before a big braking zone, but why, you might ask? It’s to remedy...
