Articles: Tech
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Slippery Slope
How to choose the right oil for your engine.
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Rebuild It Right
10 commandments for successfully nailing your next engine rebuild
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Stop!
10 Tips for Safe, Sure-Footed Brakes
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Dialed In
10 steps to better handling
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Executive Decisions
Finding the Perfect Exhaust System for Our BMW 335i
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Beat the Heat
Would you trust this engine to synthetic oil? What about your own?
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Grease: It's The Word
While everyone knows that duct tape and wire are among the most important low-buck tools, grease is rarely recognized for its position in this valuable family.
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Horsepower in a Bottle
Oil Additives: We take a look at the pluses and minuses
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Tilt!
The Sesame Street approach to chassis setup.
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Roll With It
The proper anti-roll bars let you have your cake and eat it, too.
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MINI Go
Even if it’s not supercharged, the MINI Cooper can easily make some nice horsepower gains with simple mods that you can perform at home.
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Shop Safety
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
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Shop Talk
Make your home shop the best it can be
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Digital Revolution
Do electronic driver aids really help, or do they portend a dystopian, HAL 9000-style futureworld ruled by draconian robot overlords. We find out.
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What's the Diff?
Three differential approaches, three different answers
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Hose Heaven
The lowdown on high-performance plumbing for every fluid
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Black Belts
Properly Install Your Racing Belts and Be a True Driving Ninja
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Tire Temperature Monitoring
We test Hot Lap Motorsports’ Optigrip onboard tire temperature monitoring system.
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The Little Engine That Can
The VW 1.8T Engine Can Make Big Power From a Small Displacement
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MegaCapable
Beating The Man With DIY Fuel Injection From MegaSquirt
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Strictly Cool
Late-Model BMW M-Engines In Early 3 Series Cars Make Neat Packages
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Dyno Dos
An Analytical Approach to Dyno Tuning Can Pay Huge Dividends
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Is it Junk or Not?
How you can tell if that junkyard turbo score is any good.
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Pressure Cooking
Boosting your engine doesn’t require rocket science. Here’s the nuts and bolts of DIY turbos.
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Lean Less
The inside scoop on anti-roll bars
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Shocking Behavior
if you knew the extent of the effects that shocks have on handling, you’d be… well… shocked.
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Wiring Up an In-Helmet Radio
Driver-to-Pit communication is critical in an endurance race; we installed a Sampson Racing Communications in-helmet radio before our stint at the 6 Hours of Buttonwillow in California.
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Understanding Corner Weights
One of the most important aspects of car setup is the static weight distribution and the cross-weight percentage
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ZAP!
How to Diagnose and Solve Automotive Electrical Problems
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Wheels of Fortune
Picking the Right Wheels for You
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Stock Tips
Even in Stock Class, There Are Ways to Get an Edge on the Competition
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Trash to Treasure
Refurbish That Rat in Just One Weekend
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Mass Air Sensors
Get rid of the air flow meter bottleneck on older cars by retrofitting a modern mass air sensor.
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