Q: Help! I have a 1966 Ford F-100 pickup with a transplanted 5.0L from a 1991 Mustang and the following mods: Ford Performance cam (220° duration/.498″ lift), Airflow Research CNC-ported 185 cylinder heads, Edelbrock Performer intake manifold, Holley 600 cfm carb, B&M flexplate with a 50 oz. balance, TCI C-4 Street Fighter transmission, and a TCI
You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. We work with the Summit Racing tech department to help you tackle your auto-related conundrums. In this week’s Mailbag, we’re helping a reader time his engine. Q: I have a 1956 Chevy with a 300-horsepower 350. It’s hooked up to, and sends power to, a 12-bolt rear axle with 4.11 gears. My
Q: I have a 1973 Ford Ranchero. It has a stock 302 engine with a two-barrel carburetor, a C-4 transmission, and an open-type rear axle with 3.08 gears (I think). The only modifications are headers and a dual exhaust. At about 50 miles-per-hour and above, the engine starts to break up. Acceleration up to 50 is
Check out the latest overdrive pulleys released by ATI Performance Products by watching the video below. ATI released 5-, 10-, 15- and 20-percent overdrive pulleys for the GM LT4 (the punchy supercharged engine introduced for the 2015 Z06 Corvette) as well as a 10-percent overdrive damper for Dodge’s Hellcat engines, and introduced them to the
Watch this video and learn the ins and outs of Summit Racing Street & Strip® Bracket Racer SFI Harmonic Dampers for LS engine applications. These particular harmonic balancers were designed with bracket racers in mind. They are constructed from carbon steel, have been tested up to 12,500 rpm, and are 18.1 SFI-rated which will pass tech inspection at virtually
There’s a lot of confusion about harmonic balancers. Heck, we can’t even agree on the proper name. Is it a balancer or a damper (we tend to lump them all together)? And furthermore, what does it even do? In this post, we’ve enlisted the help of Summit Racing, Fluidampr, and ATI Performance to provide a
[portfolio_slideshow id=27531] Some call it a harmonic balancer. Others refer to it as a harmonic damper. Whatever you call it, that big chunk of metal hanging off the crankshaft snout of your engine is essential to your powerplant’s wellbeing and performance. Its job is to absorb harmonics, so from here-on-out we’ll refer to it as a harmonic damper (its only true
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