In the last issue, we wrote about how to stuff larger tires inside your ride. While that article focused on filling up existing wheel wells with larger rubber, it also brought this question to the table: How big is too big when it comes to tires? Decades ago, in a conversation with the late Bill Jenkins,
The Goodguys PPG Nationals returned to Columbus, OH for its 19th go-around. An anchor event on the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association event schedule, the PPG Nationals attracts over 6,200 pre-1972 customs, classics, muscle cars, and trucks. There’s an autocross, manufacturer midway, swap meet, and even vintage drags at nearby National Trail Raceway. The show has
Another of drag racing’s founding fathers is gone. Art Chrisman, the man who made the first pass at NHRA’s first national event, died Tuesday. He was 86. Chrisman was also one of the five charter members of the Bonneville 200-mph Club, piloting Chet Herbert’s Beast streamliner past the 200-mph mark in 1952 — three years before that historic
The best-selling vehicle in American history (more than one Ford F-Series truck is sold per minute in the United States) continues its higher-power-despite-lower-displacement evolution for model year 2017 when the new Ford F-150‘s 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 engine will make 375 horsepower and 470 foot-pounds of torque, Ford Motor Co. announced this week. This is an
Q: My ’72 C10 has a TH-700-R4 transmission. I want to run braided AN line to an aftermarket transmission cooler with -6 AN ports. What fittings will I need to adapt the braided line to the radiator and transmission? A: Your TH-700-R4, and most other GM transmission cases, accept 1/4-inch NPSM (National Pipe Straight Mechanical) fittings. Summit
NHRA Pro Stock driver Greg Anderson won his sixth race of the 2016 Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season Sunday to help Team Summit and KB Racing tie the NHRA record for consecutive wins by a racing team. Anderson notched his 84th career victory, putting him just one shy of the great Bob Glidden who
Does your car have what it takes to cruise at highways speeds for extended distances? Does it also have what it takes to outrace the competition a quarter-mile at a time? And do you have the mechanical skills and mental ability to make your vehicle do both — and do them both well? If so, you might be Rocky
The 2016 NHRA season has been a great ride for Team Summit Pro Stock drivers Greg Anderson and Jason Line. After taking victory number 12 at the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, we talked to Anderson and Line to get their thoughts on the season so far, their dominating winning streak, which one will
Chuck Etchells, the man who piloted drag racing’s first four-second Funny Car, passed away on July 6 at the age of 61. Etchells began his racing career in 1974, bracket racing his D/Gas Dodge in the Northeast. He eventually moved into Funny Car racing in the late 1970s and got his first national event win at the NHRA Summernationals
I have an ’85 C-10 pickup that we’ve installed a factory fuel-injected 5.3L truck engine. We bolted a TH400 transmission to the LS engine but I now realize that I don’t have any way to trigger the kickdown linkage on the TH400 trans. How do I do this so I don’t hurt the trans? R.G.
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