Eleven weeks after leaving California as the 2011 NHRA Pro Stock champions, Jason Line and the Summit Racing team will return to the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona ready to start their title defense at the season-opening Winternationals, the first of 23 stops on the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing circuit. Their plan is
What better grand finale for our Strokers Wild series than a Ford 460 stroker project? Like we said when we kicked this project off, there’s no replacement for displacement—and this final installment gives you 520 cubic inches worth of displacement! We’re gong to show you how to punch an ordinary 460 out to 520 cubic
Call us soft, call us lazy, but we like power stuff on our cars. We can’t think of any sane reason to use old-fashioned cranks and handles when there are kits on the market that let you open doors, roll down windows, and pop open trunks at the touch of a button. Electric-Life, for example,
Got questions? We’ve got the answers—every Monday when the Summit Racing tech department tackles your automotive-related conundrums. This week, we’re talking vacuum leaks, torque converter stall speed, and setting the proper valve lash. From: S. Arikian • Montauk, NY Q: I have a 1970 Challenger with a 440. The short block was internally balanced and
You spent a lot of time searching the Internet for the right camshaft for your latest engine project. You drove your friends crazy babbling about intake, duration, and lobe separation, and then you talked the ear off of who knows how many tech guys asking for advice. So why not spend a little more time
If you’re thinking of buying a gear drive, chances are it’s for one of two reasons: you want more accurate cam timing than a chain can provide or you want that cool gear whine. Both are good, logical rationalizations for spending the grocery money on a car part. Milodon makes some nice gear drives worthy
Allow us to make a big giant generalization: building a dedicated drag race engine is pretty cut and dry. Since the aim is to cover a quarter-mile of straight asphalt in the quickest amount of time, you want an engine that makes its power at wide open throttle, all the time. But build a multi-purpose
This story originally ran in the Summit Racing catalog and on SummitRacing.com on 8/29/2008. If by chance you ever meet Ron and Lynda Carpenter, odds are it will be while they’re at, going to, or coming from a car show or cruise-in somewhere in the Midwest. They will be hard to miss—behind the wheel of
Editor’s note: This story appeared previously at SummitRacing.com. It’s not hard to pigeonhole an early Mustang guy. Restorers keep their Ford Mustangs just like the factory made them—hose clamps, chalk marks and all. Rodders don’t give a hoot about how the factory did things. They build their Mustangs how they want them, chalk marks be
The 1962 C-1 Corvette—it was the final edition of the first generation of American sports cars to carry the famed crossed flags, and the first ride to put a serious grip on Ron Robinson’s 13-year-old imagination. “In 1963, my brother had a pretty potent 427 Ford Galaxie, and boy did he think he was the
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