For 2018, we’ve been taking a look back at the past 50 years of automobile evolution to help celebrate the 50th birthday of our favorite speed shop. Want to see more tidbits from Summit Racing’s history? Start here. Using the Summit Racing Facebook page, we crowd-sourced a list of what your fellow gearheads thought were
RENO, NV. — No, we haven’t run out of Hot August Nights photos to share with you. Our friend Nicole Kunar from the Summit Racing social media team spent most of last week in the “Biggest Little City in the World,” taking photos of all the excellent automotive eye candy sprinkling the Nevada-California border. [NOTE: See Part 1 and
SPARKS, NV. — Each week, we try to share a noteworthy vehicle spotted outside of a Summit Racing retail store in our Lot Shots feature articles. We’re taking a slightly different spin this week in honor of Hot August Nights, which took place last week in and around Reno, NV, including at Summit Racing’s retail location
The world’s fastest land-speed vehicles have once again descended on the hallowed racing grounds of Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats for the 2018 edition of Bonneville Speed Week. And, per usual, our friends at BangShift made the trip to the Salt Flats to cover the action and bless us with their articles and photos from what might
RENO, NV. — We’re embarassed to tell you how many thousands of unpublished car show and event photos we have from years gone by. The hazards of dabbling in automotive media, we guess. Our friend Nicole Kunar from Summit Racing‘s social media team spent most of last week in the biggest little city in the world, taking photos
NHRA Pro Stock drivers Greg Anderson and Jason Line will sport the Summit Racing logo on the sides of their 1,400-horsepower Chevy Camaro race cars for several more years, after KB Racing inked a deal with the world’s largest aftermarket performance company to extend the partnership. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We’re proud
Q: I’m building a 360 Dodge Magnum engine, and want to install a performance hydraulic roller camshaft. I can’t find the replacement OEM lifter alignment bars that the stock roller lifters require. Is there another lifter option for this engine? A: Yes! You can use Howards Cams retrofit hydraulic roller lifters. They work in both LA
Driving his Challenger II land speed record car, Danny Thompson set a new AA/Streamliner record at the 2018 SCTA Speed Week in Bonneville, UT with a two-run average of 448.757 miles per hour. In case you were wondering, that makes the Challenger II the fastest piston-powered car in the world. (The record was previously held
RENO, NV. — Working in the automotive performance industry has several perks. One of them is the ability to attend Hot August Nights and call it ‘work.’ Our friend Nicole Kunar on Summit Racing‘s social media team spent most of last week in the biggest little city in the world, taking photos of all the excellent
Mechanically similar, General Motors’ LS and LS-based Vortec engines wound up on almost every branch of the GM family tree: Chevy, Pontiac, GMC, Cadillac, Buick—heck, even Saab, Hummer, and Isuzu got some LS love. Since LS and Vortec engines are so common, they’ve become the go-to performance and swap engines of the modern era. These motors are
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