Holley Carburetor

Video: How to Tune the Power Valve on Your Holley-Style Carburetor

Learn how your carburetor’s power circuit affects your vehicle’s acceleration, as well as how the power valve works and how to find the perfect tune, by watching this 16-minute video. Before tackling your power circuit adjustments, you may want to check out the preceding videos in this series on How to Tune Your Holley-Style Carburetor:

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Iron Man: Jay Porter’s 1964 Pontiac GTO

This story originally appeared in the Summit Racing catalog and at SummitRacing.com. Jay Porter is an ironworker for Local 17 in Akron, OH. And as everyone knows, a guy with a he-man job like that can’t be seen driving some tin can weenycar. No sir, Jay maintains his iron man rep by driving an asphalt

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Mailbag: Diagnosing Starter Issues and Resurrecting Your Ride

 Got questions? We’ve got the answers—Mondays when the Summit Racing tech department tackles your automotive-related conundrums. This week, we’re troubleshooting a starter and bringing a dormant vehicle back to life. From: Ron Brandelli • Oak Harbor, WA Q: The starter on my 1936 Ford street rod breaks every year. The copper stud completely burns out

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Project Strokers Wild (Part 2): We Build 393 CID Ford 351W

After you build a serious 347 cubic inch Ford 5.0—like we did in our first installment of Project Strokers Wild—what do you do for an encore? You build it a bigger, badder brother. In this second installment of our Stroker’s Wild engine series, we’ll show you how we built a 393 cubic inch 351 Windsor.

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