Do you live for weekends at the track? For faces blackened by rubber flecks from sick burnouts? For nostrils filled with smells of burning race fuel and smoking tires? Does your pulse quicken at the starting line, waiting for that amber light? We understand. Victory is earned after hours of wrenching. Blood and sweat. Time
Learn the difference between one-chamber, two-chamber, and three-chamber Flowmaster mufflers by watching this three-minute video by our friends at Summit Racing. In the video from the Atlanta Motorama, Alex from Flowmaster explains which muffler type he recommends for individual applications and will help you understand how the number of muffler chambers affects exhaust sound. Check it
Dale Helpingstine paid $1,000 for his 1957 Chevy Bel Air. That was 33 years ago, of course, but who’s counting? “It was a piece of junk!” he said. “I brought it home on a trailer, backed it in the garage, and started taking it apart.” Helpingstine removed the body, rebuilt the chassis, and started replacing bad
Want to know what model year you’re looking at? That’s what Ride Guides are for—to help you learn to how to be an automotive year/make/model encyclopedia. We gave you the map for learning how to identify the first three generations of Ford F-series trucks in our Quick Guide to Identifying 1948-60 Ford Pickups. Now, we’re
Tom Hoover, the famed Chrysler engineer credited with developing the 426 HEMI, died last week following a bout with a long-term illness. He was 85. His work on high performance engines (including the Slant–Six Hyper-Pak, Max Wedge V8, and the 426 HEMI) earned him the nickname “Godfather of the 426 HEMI.” In addition to developing
We’ve heard of this kind of thing before, but until BIGFOOT took off after his 40th birthday on a series of mid-life adventures involving new careers and new adventures and a desperate makeover attempt, we’d never actually seen a full-blown midlife crisis. He had been all over the country in search of answers to questions like:
Like a New Years’ resolution to get to the gym, many homeowners aspire to clean and organize their garage. So, we wanted to look at some cool stuff that could help us make our garages look nicer and function better. Thanks to our friends at Summit Gifts, Clothing & Memorabilia, we were able to find
Shaun Carnahan is the second-youngest of six boys. His father told him the same thing he told all of his sons growing up: “If you keep your nose clean, stay out of trouble, play sports, do good in school, and go to college, we will build a car and you will get to keep it.”
A parking lot is a parking lot is a parking lot—unless it’s the Summit Racing parking lot. On any given day or time, the lot outside a Summit Racing store can turn into an impromptu mini car show, depending on who’s stopped by the store. On Wednesdays, we’ll share our parking lot find of the week—another
We can’t all be walking automotive encyclopedias. But we can all read Ride Guides and learn a new thing or two. Ride Guides is our series of infographics and posts designed to better help you identify classic and performance vehicles. In our first installment, we showed you how to identify 1960-66 Chevrolet pickups. Then we
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