On the floor rests two Realtime Racing Acuras and the Spice-Acura IMSA car. Like seeing an old friend again, we were glued to the Realtime Racing Acura NSX, which we hadn’t seen since...
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September 3 2010 / No comment / Read More »RM sold five cars in Monterey for more than $2 million each with the top spot 1938 Talbot-Lago T150-C Lago Speciale Teardrop Coupe going for a cool $4.6 million dollars. ...
August 27 2010 / No comment / Read More »With million dollar cars on track and in the concours shows, some going for up to four million dollars in the auctions, enthusiasts show up to Monterey in waves. The cars entered fall...
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In a way, the DTM (which stands for Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) can be seen as the NASCAR of Europe. It’s not that Europe’s fastest touring racecars do ovals or superspeedways, it’s that DTM cars are incredibly popular, tube-framed, silhouette-bodied and all the drivers have accents.
To say without a disclaimer that we’re going to start from the beginning is a bit of a misnomer. Europe has had touring car racing as long as, well, there have been touring cars.
The NT05 is Nitto’s latest maximum performance offering. With a low UTQG rating of 200, it’s matched up against the usual SCCA Street Touring standouts like the Falken RT-615, Yokohama Advan Neova, Toyo R1R, Hankook RS-3 and Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1.
The most highly developed 911 racing chassis sold by Porsche Motorsport, the 911 GT3 RSR is a stripped out and reworked racecar that weighs about 2,700lbs and puts out 450hp through an air inlet restrictor. Falken Tire’s racecar was hand-built in Weissach, Germany and then flown straight to California for delivery.
Digital dash displays are replacement instrument clusters often used in racecars since they can integrate so many information displays into one place, eliminating the need for numerous gauges.
When you’re intent on building the ultimate street car, you’re going to need the best brakes to haul down 1,500whp. The best off-the-shelf bolt-on big brake kits use what is known as a monoblock caliper.
Faster steering gives a car quicker response and is more in tune with a driver’s reactions behind the wheel. Some cars have aftermarket offerings of new, faster steering gears that replace the guts in the rack but those cars are rare.
Titanium doesn’t transfer heat as well as steel. Most cars use steel for the brake pad backing plates due to the cheaper nature of steel. By switching to a titanium brake pad backing plate, less heat will be transferred from the rotor and pad to the piston and caliper.
The inner bolt has a magnetic tip to attract metal particles and can be unscrewed from the outer bolt. The outer bolt is spring loaded with a trap, so the inner bolt can be removed and inspected for shavings without dripping a single drop of oil.
Dzus fasteners are quick release hardware originally used in airplanes as well as racecars. One of the most popular, Dzus-type fasteners are not the only type of quick release hardware out on the market.
When using some lightweight hoods or gutting your factory one for weight, the heavy latch mechanism sometimes just has to go. When this happens, you need hood pins.
One of the easiest ways to drop weight out of your car is to get a lightweight battery. With no noise or ride quality effects, lightweight racing batteries are some of the few racing parts that can be used regularly in street cars.
Used in Le Mans prototypes and many other pro racing series, Wiggins connectors are lightweight, can be quickly opened with one hand and will never blowout or burst.
You might have seen this gold-foiled tape under the hood of some racecar and wondered what it was. Reflex-A-Gold tape is designed to reflect radiant heat and block high temperatures from getting past.
Whether it’s for track use, a general performance increase or, yoiks, just looks, racing parts are uniquely engineered and designed items that have long captured the attention of gearheads.
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