Shifting Gears Now from the title you're probably expecting a manual-transmission theme. No, what I'm referring to is changing direction when you're in the middle of a project. As many of you know, about three years ago, my son Daniel and I started restoring
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One advantage to building a rod or custom from a late-'40s or early '50s vehicle is that most American automakers had developed and fitted their cars with independent front suspensions by this time. The downside is that many of those early IFS arrangements wer
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We talked with Chris Richards of Mass-Flo EFI and checked out his latest advancements in fuel injection, which promise to finally bring simplicity into the mix. He claims to have developed the world's only true plug-and-play fuel-injection system, and having r
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You open it up, so you better be able to lay it down with a force commensurate to the power. You're looking for a balance between that power, the way it translates to the road, and how it can be controlled. For two months we've been fortifying the suspension a
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Chewing ScrewsAfter all, the reason for CHEVY HIGH PERFORMANCE is to inform and entertain, to be fun, to poke and be poked, and more than anything else, to bring like-minded people together in a common cause. The idea is to do the best you can with what you'
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Everyone seems to have their own theory for engine break-in procedures these days, but sometimes sticking to the old-fashioned way of doing things is the best. "Getting a new engine is a wonderful thing, some liken it to having a new child," says Ben Smeding,
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When your background is in auto restoration, folks pay attention to which cars you choose to build. Down South in Gastonia, North Carolina, Kim Haynes is one of those auto restorers to whom folks listen. He had completed several NASCAR restorations, but his he
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To many people Estonia, one of the Baltic states, has always been a part of Russia (or, at least, the Soviet Union). The fall of the USSR has re-established Estonia and the Baltic states as independent sovereignties. In Estonia, with 1.5 million inhabitants, t
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Proper Parts Typically, a kit car consists of a bunch of parts that you, the owner, put together to get a running vehicle at the end. Generally speaking, the manufacturer or supplier of the kit car builds only a portion of the vehicle-usually, the fiberglass
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As the Editor of KIT CAR magazine, I get to drive countless kit cars and race cars on the track and around the street. Tough job, I know.
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How Kit Car Racers Squeeze Out More Power or Get Better PerformanceWith a trophy on the line, the combatants at our past 15 Run and Gun events have shown dexterity, creativity, and skill in eking out every last horse and fine-tuning their handling and perfor
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...until the day arrives that something breaks down and we wonder, Exactly what performance parts did I install on that car?
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Recently, SRMA (the Street Rod Council of SEMA) has, under its umbrella, included and expanded its definition and support of "street modified" and "kit cars." I thought it would be interesting to point out the crossover similarities between all of these vehicl
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We all need the best safety equipment we can find. That is true whether your kit or component car ever sees the track or not. It is even more crucial, though, if you test yourself and your car in race conditions. If professional race car drivers use the best e
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Who would have thought that out of America's Dairyland would come an Italianesque car that really turns heads? Based in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, the Aldino Car Co. has transformed a Fiero platform into something Ferrari might have dreamed up but didn't...the Aldi
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Elsewhere in this issue, we explore some interesting alternatives for building a cool custom '50s ride. Whether your preferences run tastefully traditional or sleek and contemporary, mid-'50s passenger cars are an incredibly...
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When guys like Norm Gabrowski and Andy Brizio kicked off the "Fad T" craze back in the '60s and '70s, the little fiberglass buckets with giant rear meats and oversized...
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15 Affordable Ways To A Faster Ride
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Frankly we’re tired of hearing it. Rodders with prize-winning high-tech cars explaining why they can’t drive them, and guys with low-budget street weaponry belly-aching that the high-end cars are unstreetable. Both arguments are equally bogus, and we
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Chrysler’s first hemispherical-headed V-8 engines seemed light-years ahead of the competition when introduced for the ’51 models, and stayed on the leading edge of performance into the ’60s. But by the mid-’60s, the new 426 Hemi made the ea
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Quick, make a mental list of famous Ford V-8s. The flathead’s a no-brainer, and so are the side-oiler 427 and Cammer. Then there’s the Cleveland, FE big-blocks, Boss 302…. The list goes on. But we’ll guess only the most die-hard Blue Oval f
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Pinstriping has been around longer than most of us realize. It’s a decorative art form that dates back beyond the horse-drawn buggy days. Ornamental hand-striping was last factory-applied on an American car in the late ’30s. By the mid-’40s it w
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Rough Riders Bottoming out is not only aggravating and jarring, it’s a not-too-subtle sign of an improperly set up coilover suspension. According to Gary Heidt at Heidt’s Hot Rod Shop, who knows a few things about independent front suspension, botto
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