Month: November

Closer Look: Percy’s Adjust-a-Jet Metering Plate

[portfolio_slideshow id=12472] Remove fuel bowl, swap out jets, replace fuel bowl, start car, and test. Remove fuel bowl again, swap out jets again, replace fuel bowl, start car, and test again. Remove fuel bowl yet again, swap out—well, you get the idea. Making fuel adjustments to your carburetor can be tedious and frustrating, not to

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Plymouth Rocks! A Thanksgiving-Sized Serving of Mopar Classics

[portfolio_slideshow id=12360] What could be a better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than by revisiting Plymouth? Since it’s too late to plan an educational trip to historical Plymouth, MA, we’ve revisited some of our other favorite Plymouths from the past year. Instead of Nina, Pintas, and Santa Marias, you’ll have to settle for this photo gallery of Roadrunners, Barracudas,

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Thanksgiving Photo Gallery: Automotive Turducken

What’s on your Thanksgiving menu this year? Turkey? Chicken? Duck? Why choose when you can have “turducken”—a dish that consists of a chicken stuffed into a duck, which is in turn stuffed into a turkey. Yep, it’s a real dish, and it’s essentially a combination of multiple ingredients to form one odd yet fascinating creature—a rare bird, if

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Lot Shots Find of the Week: 1965 Dodge Coronet

[portfolio_slideshow id=12492] 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. Each Wednesday, we’ll share our parking lot find of the week—another

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SEMA Purchases IMIS, Unifies Racing Industry Trade Shows

First it was PRI, now it’s IMIS. The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) has acquired the International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS) and will consolidate it with Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Show. While you take a moment to digest all those acronyms, we’ll also tell you the expanded PRI show will return to its roots in Indianapolis for

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Video: How to Choose a Camshaft for Ford 5.0L

In this 15-minute Quick Flicks video, the gang at Summit Racing takes the guesswork out of choosing a camshaft for your Ford 5.0L, providing some general guidelines for choosing a cam for stock 5.0L engines (in the 300-horsepower or less range)—and covers additional upgrades to consider for maximizing the performance of your new camshaft. It also

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Mailbag: A Grand Plan for Boosting a Small Chevy

P.W. • Rosholt, WI Q: I have a 1984 Chevy Z28 Camaro with an HO 305 engine and 5-speed transmission. I want to increase horsepower and gas mileage while staying on a budget of around a thousand dollars. Do you have any suggestions for the parts I need to get the job done? A: For

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Heat Advisory: Spark Plug Heat Range and What You Need to Know

The spark plug is the Rodney Dangerfield of the hot rodding universe. It gets no respect—or at least very little. As performance enthusiasts, we tend to focus on power builders like high-flow cylinder heads, big camshafts, and mandrel-bent exhaust components. Fact is you can throw thousands of dollars worth of speed parts at your engine,

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Factory Five/Summit Racing Mk4 Build (Part 2): Rear Suspension

[portfolio_slideshow id=12277] In our first installment on Summit Racing’s Cobra Project, we covered in general the scope of the buildup, and then got down to the details on installing the front suspension and steering rack. With the front end basically done (except for brake lines and alignment, which we’ll cover later), we next proceeded with

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