The guys on Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters have exposed some pretty incredible myths. But when it comes to debunking some of the most common motor oil myths, you’d be hard pressed to find a better source than Driven Racing Oil. Formulated by the engine gurus at Joe Gibbs Racing, Driven Racing Oil motor oil and break-in oil have protected
The Winter Games are over. The flame has been extinguished, and Bob Costas’ eyes are all cleared up. But the OnAllCylinders Winter Games—the competition that asked you to pick gold medal winners in seven distinct automotive categories—still has some unfinished business. We have to award our medals. We opted to announce our winners after the Sochi closing
The battle between the Hennessey Venom GT and Bugatti Veyron continues! Hennessey fired the latest salvo by making a 270.49 mile-per-hour pass on a Kennedy Space Center runway. The 3.22-mile pass bested the Veyron’s fastest speed by .063 miles-per-hour. That’s fast enough to impress everyone—everyone except the folks at NASA, that is. NASA officials wouldn’t let the Hennessey make a return
You’ve got questions. We’ve got the answers—the Summit Racing tech department tackles your automotive-related conundrums. This week, troubleshooting and troubled tranny. K.R. Denham Springs, LA Q: When going up steep, muddy hills, the transmission in my 1999 Jeep Wrangler slips. On the road, the transmission operates fine. The Wrangler has a 4.0L 6-cylinder engine with
[portfolio_slideshow id=28574] Racing legend “Big Daddy” Don Garlits officially began his latest quest for another racing milestone at the 2013 SEMA Show in Las Vegas last November. That’s where his latest dragster, the SR-37 “Quest for 200 MPH of Batteries” made its debut. Garlits, along with SR-37 co-owners Brad Hadman and Mike Gerry, are pushing to break
Rocker arms are among the most stressed components in your engine—and the most important, too. They’re essentially tasked with transferring movement from the camshaft lobes to the valves, making them a key cog in your engine’s power production. So are you getting optimum performance from your rocker arms? According to the valvetrain experts at COMP Cams,
That’s right—it’s old school muscle vs. new-age technology in this unusual burnout competition. You don’t have to like electric vehicles, but we think you’ll be somewhat surprised by the effort of the Tesla S. Keep in mind, the driver had to pull a fuse to disable the traction control and anti-lock brakes to make the burnout
Despite its recent troubles, Lotus has made its initial foray into the motorcycle market—sort of. Although the newly unveiled Lotus C-01 motorcycle bears the Lotus name, it was actually built by Kodewa, the German company that built the Lotus Le Mans car. Outside of lending its brand name to the new superbike, Lotus has had
In a separate Mailbag post, we responded to a question about choosing a nitrous oxide system. Although nitrous oxide is a rather simple concept, tuning your engine to take advantage of the extra power potential can be a little involved, especially when you get into the high-horsepower or multiple-jet nitrous kits. Fortunately, the gurus at NOS have
Remember when the Jamaican bobsled team made its debut at the 1988 Winter Games? The team took the Winter Games by storm, because they were lovable underdogs and represented a tropical nation in a winter sport. Up to that point, Jamaicans fit in at the Winter Games like Miley Cyrus at a Billy Graham Crusade. People were captivated. The point is
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