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...

Tire Preparation Basics

Over the years, my racing team has accused me of being a real pain in the ass. This comes from my dedication to extreme...

The Driver’s Lounge

My job on the race team is to drive, but it’s not what you think. My job isn’t to drive racecars — that is...

How to Create A White Board Track Map

Part of being a racecar driver is learning new racetracks. There is always time to be gained through track familiarization. In recent decades, technology...

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