As a kid, impressing your BMX buddies with a sick wheelie down the sidewalk is cool. But if you’re at the track, trying to shave previous milliseconds off of your ETs, wheelies are your time-robbing nemesis. Summit Racing’s got a new line of wheelie bars that keep your drag car planted, letting your tires grab
The Koni roadshow pulled into Summit Racing’s retail store this week to chat with folks about the merits of proper suspension tuning. We got a chance to sit down with Lee Grimes, an Automotive Product Manager with Koni (and a racer himself with decades of track experience), to get his take on performance trends, suspension
The foundation of a vintage vehicle build is the frame. Any damage, whether its from rust or a wreck, can cause havoc when its time to get the car roadworthy. And it’s not like you can go to a junkyard and salvage a frame from a 50-year-old vehicle and expect it to be in good
Before we get into the importance of subframe connectors, let’s first talk about what vehicle subframes are. What is a Subframe? A subframe is a discrete structural component in vehicles. That’s a fancy way of saying that a subframe is separate from the vehicle frame (in a body-on-frame configuration), or separate from a vehicle’s body shell
Listen to QA1’s Dave Kass demonstrate how QA1’s new K-Member for Fox-Body and SN95 Ford Mustangs (model years 1979-2004) provide enormous performance advantages and project flexibility over the factory K-Members. The new QA1 Mustang K-Members are constructed from high-strength, low-alloy steel, and weigh half as much as the factory K-Members and take up much less
In this video from Baileigh Industrial, master builder Bryan Fuller of Fuller Moto will show you the ins and outs of Baileigh’s entry-level TN-250 hole saw tube notcher. Versatility and adjustability are the hallmarks of this machine. It features a radial, self-centering capture vise which has a powerful screw with built-in handwheel that opens and
[portfolio_slideshow id=42114] Plenty of racers use ballast to meet specific class weight breaks. Clever racers use the ballast as a tool to effectively tune the car too. As we covered in Weight Plan (Part 1), the best way to build any race car is build it as light as you can, then use ballast to
Nearly a decade old, a Grassroots Motorsports magazine article titled “Soccer Moms’ Revenge,” recounts a day at Michelin’s Laurens Proving Grounds in Laurens, SC when the magazine’s staff took a 1960’s-era Porsche 356 and Jaguar XKE and pitted them against a modern-day Honda Odyssey minivan. After a 400-mile air-conditioned road trip with no tire-pressure adjustments,
[portfolio_slideshow id=4858] This story originally appeared in the Summit Racing catalog and also appeared on SummitRacing.com. It’s a minor miracle Denny Terzich Jr.’s head isn’t about 10 times larger than it is. After all of the ego-massaging he got over his 1956 Chevy—the one that won Goodguy’s 2002 Street Machine of the Year honors—we wouldn’t
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