Build Your Own Magnetic Alignment Guide

Clockwise or counterclockwise, that is the question. Do you know the difference? Do you know the difference when you are looking up? Do you...

Build Your Own Portable Wheel-Washing Station

Any amount of time at a race track equals dirty wheels. There is no way around it. Even if you aren’t running an aggressive...

Intercooler Cooling

Turbos are nothing new when it comes to vehicle performance. Using the speed of exhaust gases to spin and pressurize air going into an...

Tire Balancing With Knowledge

This particular Toolshed Engineer article is an update to two previously published stories on tire mounting and balancing titled Tire Preparation Basics and Nitrogen...

Easy Way To Time Your Honda Ignition

We have all heard the saying, “Timing is everything.” It’s absolutely true. Timing has an enormous effect on our lives. Walk into a restaurant...

Motorsports Storage

Over time racecar drivers become inherently good at collecting stuff, extra wheels, spare engines, etc. If they’re really good, they collect lots of trophies....

Tools for Teaching

Racecar drivers are often asked to provide coaching or basic instruction about defensive driving. Sometimes it is a teen driver course or a corporate...

Schedule Yourself For Success

I was at a NASA SoCal event in October and on Sunday I saw one of my fellow Honda Challenge competitors getting into his...

Do-It-Yourself Endurance Racing Headlight Tint

As you and your car graduate and navigate through the different types of racing NASA has to offer, it means you also need to...

Air Supply Solutions

Without air in our lungs, we are dead. We all need air to survive. Racing tires are essentially the same. If your tires don’t...

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