Posted by PPNAdmin | Tue, Nov 16 2010 1 Comment When it experienced trouble with clutch failures, Earnhardt Childress Racing Engines turned to Quarter Master® to help create a clutch package that breaks through the boundaries of what had previously been possible.
There’s a reason why you always find some manufacturers in the automotive performance market involved in racing. And that’s because you won’t find anyone, anywhere that can abuse stuff and generally push every component on a car to its absolute mechanical limit like a race car driver….
Posted by PPNAdmin | Thu, Oct 21 2010 1 Comment If four forward gears is good, six must be better, right? That is what TCI® is thinking, with the release of their 4L80E-based 6X six-speed automatic high performance transmission. For our PowerTV Project Max-Street Nova II, the 6X was right up our alley. We needed a transmission that can handle 850hp+ that will be produced from our Edelbrock/Musi 555 big block Chevy and F2 Pro-charger, while cruising at low RPMs on the highway as well.
Your transmission is arguably the…
No matter if the competition is street/strip, circle track or anything in between, every competitor knows that parts have to take beating and stand up to grueling conditions or the competition is over. And in racing, failure means sitting on the sidelines, watching.
One of the most taken for granted competition products is the starter. That’s because starters are a dime a dozen and many competitors go the route of “any starter will do,” paying the price of…
RHS Designs for the Entire System, Not the Flow Bench
Determining the best cylinder head for your needs requires more than simply comparing port flow numbers. There are many ways to measure a cylinder head: port volume, port flow, cross sectional area, air velocity, dimensions, chamber volume, valve…
When it comes to circle track-ready blocks, DART’s billet components provide an excellent platform.
The term gets bandied around a lot. “Billet” components are defined by experts as parts that were created from a single block of material. That is a fact lost in many advertising campaigns that allude to their products being billet quality without actual billet construction – a case of promising a lot without ever really delivering the “goods” in terms of strength and reliability.
Remember The Day…
Remember the days when you patiently waited by the mailbox for your favorite nationally syndicated racing paper to arrive on Thursday or Friday, so you could find out who won the big events across the country the week before? And then, remember how mad you’d get when the paper got lost in the mail, and you had to wait until you got to your local track a few days later to learn who won? Looking back now, one sometimes wonders if that was ever really a problem,…
Posted by PPNAdmin | Mon, Jul 26 2010 1 Comment Six-Second Technology for 12-Second Cars
Just like the used bicycle or not-quite-worn-out sneakers you inherited from your older sibling, technology also trickles down. That’s fortunate for those of us who cruise our cars on the street but race vicariously through the likes of Spiro Pappas, Vinny Budano, Tony Nesbit or John Urist. We crave to understand and adapt the technology…
Posted by PPNAdmin | Mon, Jul 26 2010 1 Comment Factory Double-Wall Exhaust Dilemma
It’s hard enough to make power when you know the playing field. Fresh engine, right rearend gears, perfect transmission setup – they all contribute. But when something as simple as an exhaust pipe that appears to be fine turns out to be a major performance deterrent, that’s a tough one.
For Mark Hoffman, his big-block ’68 Camaro had all the right stuff – and still seemed to perform in a lazy manner when he stepped on the throttle. After thorough research he still couldn’t find the problem,…
The new 6x Six-Speed Transmission uses six automatic gears to give you the best in performance and fuel economy.
Just a few short years ago, automotive giants like Ford, General Motors and even Mercedes Benz were touting new six-speed automatic transmissions that were supposed to be cutting-edge technology. And some of the designs were—at least in terms of complexity. Another problem with many of these six-speed transmissions was they…
Dart re-engineers the small-block Ford and Chevy for the next century of performance enthusiasts.
When Dart’s founder, Richard Maskin, decided to create the ultimate small-block for Ford and Chevy fans, he did a significant amount of research combined…
