If you happened to catch Part 1 of this series, then you’re up to date with what we are doing with this 1969 Pontiac Firebird, but if you’re not, let us bring you up to speed. With a dream to get behind the wheel of a classic muscle car, your author picked up a less-than-wholesome
If you’re into cars, then there’s a good chance that at some point you have wanted a muscle car. Unfortunately, the days of picking up a popular model on the cheap and driving away with it are long gone. Still, the lure of rolling down the road in muscle-car coolness is a powerful motivator. What
Having the right tool for any job often results in a successful completion of the task, and it can often save time as well, which can translate into more free time and/or more money. A tool that offers both of those attributes and saves you from asking for assistance—well, now that is like hitting the
[portfolio_slideshow id=59330] Visit enough car shows and you’ll begin to see certain styling trends under the hoods of your favorite vehicles. We’ve all seen chrome, and billet, and more recently, the racy looking fabricated aluminum covers are the latest trend. But you don’t have to settle for what comes out of the box. If you
[portfolio_slideshow id=54237] How much horsepower does it make? How much torque does it put out? These are usually the first questions enthusiasts ask when it comes to buying parts for his/her street machine or race car. The reality is, however, that many of the parts we need for these cars don’t offer any improvement in horsepower
Search the Internet about it and you’ll quickly find that failing knock sensors in LS-powered GM trucks are a common occurrence. Replacing a knock sensor may seem like a daunting task once you find out that you have to remove the intake manifold. Thankfully, intake manifold removal is much easier on an LS engine than a Gen I small
In this installment of Saving Silverado, we have a super easy upgrade that most anyone can perform without the need for any special tools. We’re upgrading the stock power side mirrors to those with built-in turn signals. As we eventually realized, the passenger mirror on this Silverado suffered from a broken motor assembly and would basically
[portfolio_slideshow id=49148] In our last installment of this Saving Silverado project, we remedied some issues with the HVAC system, and until this point, we’ve been doing a lot of fixing and repairing on the truck. I’d say it’s time to do something a bit more fun, so this time around, we’re going to “fix” the
[portfolio_slideshow id=48555] No one likes sweating in a hot car in the middle of summer, and it’s especially infuriating when there is a perfectly good air conditioning system on board that doesn’t exactly function like it should. The 1999-2007 Silverado/Sierra/Tahoe, and other similar GM trucks all suffer from several maladies that eventually affect the HVAC
If you happened to catch the introduction of the Saving Silverado project, then you know that there are as many things wrong with it as there are right. One of the trouble spots with this newly acquired crew cab pickup is the braking system, which shows off its warped front rotors and squeaky pads at
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