Editor’s Note: This guest post is courtesy of the Car Care Council, which is dedicated to educating vehicle owners about the benefits of regular vehicle maintenance through its “Be Car Care Aware” program. If you live in a cold weather climate, chances are your hot rod or muscle car is already tucked snugly away for the winter.
Proper piston-to-valve clearance is essential to the health of your engine. And by essential, we mean your powerplant could meet its catastrophic demise without the right clearance between these two vital engine components. We covered the ins and outs of checking piston-to-valve clearance in an earlier post, but this video provides the actual visuals to go along with
[portfolio_slideshow id=26452] Cars are filled with stuff that can make or break performance. The engine needs to be fed the proper amounts of air, fuel, and spark. The suspension and brakes must be in tip-top shape. The wheels and tires, transmission, cooling system, gauges—even the seats—must all function properly. With all those things to worry about,
Watch this video to learn how to install Mishimoto’s specially designed Performance Aluminum Radiator on the 1994-96 Ford Mustang. Mishimoto designed a floating bracket system which eliminated a problem with OEM radiators separating end tanks from cores when the chassis got torqued. In addition to being more efficient and offering increased cooling capacity, these Mishimoto
[portfolio_slideshow id=26219] Back in the day, if you wandered over to the NHRA Pro Stock Truck pits between rounds you’d find something pretty interesting. Nine times out of ten, those race trucks used some form of filter element in their air intake system. They were there to filter out dirt and dust, of course. But
[portfolio_slideshow id=25873] Even the world’s finest ignition wires have it tough. First, there are today’s high-power ignition boxes. As ignition power becomes stronger and spark plug gaps increase, the chances of crossfire and spark leakage increase. Then there is the ignition wire’s arch-nemesis: heat. If you’ve ever seen wire with cracked jackets or worse, melted
Upgrading your early muscle car’s carburetor for a modern electronic fuel injection system has never been easier and less expensive. In the past, most EFI systems required some knowledge of how to set and adjust fuel and ignition tables from a laptop computer. But new EFI systems like Holley’s Avenger kit, makes it much simpler.
Proper pushrod length is essential for achieving optimum valvetrain geometry. In fact, with today’s more-aggressive camshafts and higher valve-spring pressures, determining the right pushrod length has never been more critical to the performance and wellbeing of an engine. Several factors work together to determine the required pushrod length—rocker arm brand, valve stem length, camshaft design, lifter style, engine
[portfolio_slideshow id=24722] If you have a Fox-body or SN95 Mustang, a 1980s GM G-body (Grand National, Malibu, El Camino, etc.) or something like an early Chevelle or a GTO, it has a triangulated four-link rear suspension. This type of suspension has coil springs and upper and lower trailing arms (also called control arms). The upper
Old Man Winter is a crusty old coot. He’s cold, miserable, and he hates your hot rod worse than loud rock ‘n roll music and new-fangled cellular devices. In fact, winter (we like to refer to him by last name only) is more than willing to do harm to your prized vehicle, so sometimes it’s
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