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Chevy Shafts 101: A Basic Guide to Choosing a Chevy Crankshaft

The crankshaft is the backbone of any Mouse or Rat. Without a good, strong crankshaft, your high performance Chevy engine (or any engine, for that matter) risks catastrophic injury. Whether you’re building a small or big block from the ground up, or adding serious modifications to your existing mill, it’s important that you match your crankshaft

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Project Thunderbolt LS Miata (Part 7): Noise and Heat Insulation

There’s a long list of benefits that come from jamming a big engine into a little car: the speed, the sound, the terrified wife, and so on. But a big drawback is unwanted heat and noise. To address this issue in our Project Thunderbolt Miata, I ordered up LizardSkin products from Summit Racing. LizardSkin is

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