Fans of the general with a first-gen Camaro or Nova in their garage may already know of Chris Alston's Chassisworks. For those who don't know comes the news of a upgraded-for-handling version of their popular NoFab front clip. The bolt-in assembly comes with a power steering rack, adjustable billet aluminum…
Modstuff: Take Control of Audi S4 RS4 Handling
For those willing to make the leap and stop pretending their Audi S4 RS4's
Some Motorcycle With That Starlet?
My Starlet was recently selected at random by the punch card driven vacuum tube powered California DMV computer for a yearly smog chek. The usual routine is every two years. The 1300cc engine passed after three trips to the rollers and countless hours of rebuilding and tuning the inherently evil downdraft Aisin…
Stuffed Honda 360 from Rocket Craft Japan
From the we could never make this stuff up department comes Rocket Craft from Japan. Their slogan says it all. The stuffed animal of the engine of a car and a motorcycle. The company designs and sews stuffed cars, motorcycles, trains, and even Maserati engines. For more entertainment run Rocket Craft through a…
Flexible Wagon Gear!
One of benefits of spending all manner of time and money on older Japanese cars is the often entertaining intersection of Japanese and English. We had seen the jewelry-like quality of Cusco suspension components before, but we had yet to see the packaging for these pillow ball adjustable camber plates. All language…
Bluetooth for Engine Tuners
Innovate Motorsports has teamed up with BradaTech to keep cable clutter from tangling up engine tuning. Bluetooth adapters are now available for the entire range of Innovate tuning products. Running air-fuel ratio signal from wide band O2 or other sensors and data from test runs can be dumped wirelessly onto a PC or…
Ask Bob: Clutches Explained
Making the wrong choice in a performance clutch is a wicked easy thing to do. While a super ceramic or unsprung sintered iron disc may sound like the hot setup for those who fancy themselves John Force, the most common error is to choose more clutch than required. Loose fillings, scored flywheels, and grabby clutch…
Pneumatic Garden Stool
The modern postal mailbox is a dreary affair. There is but one gem that shows up occasionally among the usual pile of bills, credit card offers, carpet cleaning discount coupons, and sporadic check. The Harbor Freight Tools catalog! In honor of President's Day they sent along an extra thick version, which contained…
ModStuff: Fidanza One-Piece Mustang Driveshaft
Flummoxed would be a good word to describe the first time we saw a latest generation Mustang up on a rack. We wondered, possibly out loud, why Ford installed a two-piece driveshaft into a vehicle which folks were obviously going to modify to make ridiculous horsepower. As 500 hp out of Mustangs becomes increasingly…
