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...
Spec MX5 vs Spec Miata
Typically, two of the costs an ambitious driver must contend with when moving up into a faster vehicle is greater complexity and a more...
The Tenth Tenth – Adding a four-channel wideband controller can get you those last...
The effort you put into your racing is often described in tenths. Six-tenths is a cool-down lap. Seven-tenths is as hard as you push...
Track Tire Basics – The selection, care and feeding of racing tires
The fundamentals of racing tire management can be broken down into three areas: pre-event preparation, at the race track and on the track. Whether...
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...
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...
Shock Tech
One of the first things you realize after your first day on a racetrack is that OEM shocks aren’t going to cut it. If...
Construction Zone – Installing Custom Roll Cage and an Aluminum Containment Seat in a...
With just more than three weeks to go till the first points race of the season, I dropped off the donor car at Blackbird...
Project Spec E30 – Part II: Interior Teardown
The easiest part of the process of building a Spec E30 is stripping the interior. The obvious first step is, removing the front and...
Project: Spec E30 – Finding a Donor and Getting Started on the Build
People ask me what it takes to build a Spec E30. Believe it or not, it’s a common question that people who are interested...
