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Grille Guide: Why and How to Choose a Grille Guard for Your Truck

Grille guards. Bull bars. Brush guards. Whatever you call them, they’re a great way to add front-end protection and styling to your truck. Grille guards (the umbrella term we’ll use here) aren’t often the first upgrade truck owners make, but they’re popular nonetheless. You can find grille guards from several dozen manufacturers and for trucks from the 1950s

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Hot Rod Drag Week 2015: Preview and Link to Live Coverage

Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week is upon us again. If you have never witnessed the automotive spectacle that is Drag Week, this is one amazing week of fast cars and trucks, and you can watch it live on the Motor Trend YouTube Channel. How does Drag Week work? Drivers find one of fifteen classes that

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Chevy: 2016 Camaro Sets New Standards for Speed, Power, and Handling

The all-new sixth-generation 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS reaches 60 miles per hour in four seconds and covers the quarter-mile in 12.3 seconds, setting new factory performance standards in the pony car category, Chevy announced Monday. Chevy shaved as much as 390 pounds off the new Camaro models and mated them with various Goodyear performance tires

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Mailbag: What’s Causing Gasoline to Leak into My Oil?

You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers—the Summit Racing tech department tackles your automotive-related conundrums. This week in our Mailbag, we’re tracking down the source of gasoline in oil. Q: The 351 Cleveland engine in my 1974 Mercury Cougar is having a power problem. It has an Edelbrock intake manifold with a 600 cfm Holley four-barrel, 2V Cleveland heads, Crane

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