Month: January

Video: Dodge Charger Hellcat Hits 204+ MPH!

Remember: “It’s got four doors so it’s perfect for the family.” Just trying to help with your sales pitch for buying the 707-horsepower, Hellcat-powered 2015 Dodge Charger sedan. The 204 mile-per-hour top speed? That can be your little secret–unless your spouse, friends, or significant other saw this video from Dodge. Dodge says the video was taken during final testing

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Weight Plan: How to Properly Place Ballast for a Faster Race Car

Proper ballast placement is actually a free speed secret. Getting the ballast located correctly is a key component for a faster race car and will allow you to go faster around the turns and provide more grip for your car. So, in conjunction with Rebco, we’ve put together a few simple tips for ballast placement. Lose Weight First First,

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Ask Away: Understanding Detonation and its Root Causes

  I just bought a big-block 454 engine from a friend and I want to put it in my ’69 Camaro with a 4-speed trans. The engine was rebuilt a long time ago with 10.5:1 forged pistons and rectangle port iron heads. The engine has an older, solid lifter cam it in but my friend

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Truck Treasure: 2015 Ford F-150 Aftermarket Buyers Guide

Depending on where your allegiances lie, aluminum is either for: A) beer cans, or B) trucks. If you lean toward answer A, chances are you’re not that enamored with the 2015 Ford F-150. But if you choose B (or better yet, A and B), you’re probably a fan of the new F-150 and its 95-percent aluminum body.

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Tony Stewart Purchases Two Sprint Car Sanctioning Bodies

Tony Stewart’s affinity for dirt track racing is well known. Now Stewart has taken his involvement in sprint car racing a step further by purchasing the All Star Circuit of Champions and Renegade Sprints circuits. In the process, he’s effectively put an end to a battle for the state of Ohio between the two series. Stewart

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Ford Exec Leaks 2017 F-150 Raptor Horsepower

[portfolio_slideshow id=38673] The 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor will see only a moderate boost in power, but from a much smaller engine. Ford product development chief Raj Nair let it slip on TV during the Rolex 24 at Daytona this weekend that the new Raptor will offer 450 horsepower. In a day when muscle cars feature

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The Original GT350 Turns 50: How the Shelby GT350 Came to Be!

On this day in 1965, the original Shelby GT350 debuted. The development of the 1965 Shelby GT350, a high performance variant of the Ford Mustang created by Carroll Shelby, is fairly well documented. When Ford decided it needed a racing version of its newly minted Mustang, it decided to homologate the Mustang for SCCA B/Production

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