Selecting a power adder often comes down to a choice between supercharger, turbocharger, or nitrous—at least for many people. Bradley Gray is not like “many people,” and he’d like one of each please! The Concord, NC resident has built an entire lifestyle around creating mountainous engine setups fed by an intricate combination of blowers and
Here at OnAllCylinders, we strive to maintain a high level of journalistic integrity in an effort to bring you automotive tech stories and industry news in a professional, objective manner. …until a totally righteous, super-gnarly VW Baja Bug ba-braaaaps! into the Summit Racing retail store parking lot while we’re standing nearby. Then, of course, we lose
Summit Racing’s been around for over 50 years now, which means the Company has been involved in more than a few project car builds. (You can check out its first one here.) The 1987 Chevy Corvette you see here was featured in the November 1997 edition of Car Craft magazine. Summit Racing threw its vast parts catalog
Whether we’re talking about your engine, axles, transmission, or anywhere else they’re found, bearings have a very, very, very important job. That job, for the purposes of this article, is to enable rotational movement. Or, in slightly less-fancy talk, a bearing reduces friction and makes it easier for a shaft or hub to spin freely.
Q: Recently, I purchased a 1974 Chevy Impala 4-door. It’s a pretty big car, so I decided to swap the small block 350 with a big block 454. I had a buddy build the 454, and we got a lot of parts from Summit Racing—from the Moroso 7-quart oil pan to the K&N air filter.
The water pump wizards over at Tuff Stuff Performance field a ton of questions about things like pump sizes, flow rates, belt routing, and all sorts of other cooling-related issues. They shared the questions customers most often ask them about water pumps. It’s a good read if you’re looking at replacing or upgrading your current
Back in the day, a breaker-points ignition system regulated by a mechanical distributor was what controlled engine timing. While that system worked o.k. for its era, “points” ignitions are now very much out-of-date and an upgrade to an electronically-controlled ignition system can make a night-and-day difference in your vehicle’s performance and reliability. (By the late
How do I tell the correct heat range spark plug for an engine? – Mark S. Jeff Smith: Simple questions sometimes require a bit longer answers. This is one of those cases. Let’s start with a typical street engine. For a stock engine, the answer is simply to use the recommended plug for the application. Clearly,
The sixth race of 24 in NHRA’s 2018 Mello Yello Drag Racing Series took place at zMAX Dragway near the motorsports hotbed of Charlotte, NC. Smack-dab in the middle of three in a row, the action was hot. Catch up on the results in the professional classes here. The Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Sportsman
[Editor’s Note: This L76 truck engine upgrade guide is part of a series of LS engine upgrade guides assembled by a team of LS experts at Summit Racing that we are sharing at OnAllCylinders. For a primer on the entire LS engine universe, read LS Engines 101: An Introductory Overview of the Gen III/IV LS Engine Family.] …
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