Restoring an Old Trailer
When you are a true racecar driver, it means you are no longer playing with your street car during track days. You are all...
Paint Your Own Engine Bay
During the off-season, you have time to think about all the racecar projects you have been shamefully putting off. It’s called procrastinating and it...
Test Your Own Spring Rates
Over the eight years that I have been putting together this Toolshed Engineer column, I will humble-brag a bit and admit that I have...
Repair Your Own Splitter
We detailed how to Build Your Own Splitter in an earlier Toolshed Engineer column. Now we are going to show you how to repair...
Build Your Own Jack Board
Somebody smarter than me said wisdom comes from experience and experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. That certainly...
How To Get Stickers On Straight
In motorsports, the data has clearly proven numerous times that nothing makes a racecar faster around a track than the simple mod of adding...
Use a 3D Printer to Improve Your Race Team
Racing is a complicated sport with many layers and different problems that arise when you least expect them. You never know when something new...
Build Your Own Driving Simulator
When you can’t get to the racetrack, but you still feel the urge to play with cars, the next best thing is the digital...
Build Your Own Podcast Background
Fellow NASA racer and 25 Hours of Thunderhill E2 class winner Peter Hopelain has a cool podcast called The Technik Podcast. If you haven’t...
Port Your Own Intake
Racecar drivers are always chasing a tenth of a second. Generally, racers don’t care where the tenth comes from. They just want to be...