When discussing the spool-up and high-end flow characteristics of a given turbocharger, the term “wheel trim” may pop up. If you’re in the market for a turbocharger upgrade, comparing new units, or are...
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...
August 27 2010 / No comment / Read More »A project car is all about the cursing, over-your-head budget, and time spent under the hood. They’re bought used, worked on for countless hours, and then put up against competitors that cost more...
August 23 2010 / 4 comments / Read More »The stock twin-turbocharger system was re-installed, converted to boost non-sequentially, but didn’t produce as much power as White liked. The final answer was a huge single GReddy T78 turbocharger kit....
August 20 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »The History Garage museum is designed to honor production cars from the 1950s through the 1970s, as well as past racing machines. The Corolla WRC car and GT-One Le Mans car are rare...
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The GT L.S.D. Pro features an externally adjustable initial torque setting. With this capability, the LSD can be set trackside to compensate for power, tires or even the difference between a drift day and a track day.
Like a good set of tires, drivetrain is an often-overlooked area of car tuning. Many obsess over blowers, exhausts and wheels but when it comes time to get that project buttoned up, the cheapest clutch kit is usually shoved in.
Sandwiched into a busy Tokyo city block is the headquarters of Nissan Motorsports International, known as Nismo. Nismo’s Super GT racing team, Omori Factory customer service center, parts development team, and main office are all housed in this complex.
The ECON is designed to increase torque, improve gas mileage and clean exhaust emissions (less CO and HC) by supplying up to 130% higher voltage (when compared to OEM).
With their own in-house project GT-R pushing more than 720whp, GReddy knows a thing or two about injecting the twin-turbo V6 VR38DETT engine with more speed.
Ralliart’s statement is a bit ambiguous about whether Ralliart itself is closing its doors. For certain, they are stopping certain business activities for now and scaling back.
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.
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.
For the average real world driver, the Continental ExtremeContact DW provides a better balance between cost and performance and will provide more than enough grip for the street and, occasionally, the track.
On track, our palms get so sweaty that the steering wheel and shift knob can become slippery. Being too slow to catch a tank-slapper or missing a shift because of grip, well, sucks.
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