1/13/2005 By: Roger Hewson Heat is detrimental to performance; it’s the entire reason behind cooler thermostats, front-mount intercoolers, cold-air induction systems and everything else on the market today designed to cool down something under the hood. Colder air being fed into the engine makes more power and that’s the reasonContinue Reading
1/4/2005 By: Roger Hewson I was going to start this with a cliché “nobody likes dead batteries” statement, but any idiot knows having a dead battery sucks. For a motor to run it actually has to get going first and that is where the all important battery and starter comeContinue Reading
By: Roger Hewson 12/28/2004 Any one who has ever had a drop of gas and oil running through their veins has dreamed of becoming a racecar driver at one point in their life. Every time I drive through a long sweeping onramp, I debate sliding the tires off my carContinue Reading
12/22/2004 By: Roger Hewson Clutches and gear ratios are a couple of the most misunderstood aspects of tuning out there. From terminology to setup to how it works, we have not come across anything more mixed up, applied wrong or just screwed up more than these two applications. It’s whyContinue Reading
12/8/2004By: Roger Hewson It’s no mystery that stock exhaust systems stink. No matter how good it might look or sound, there is something somewhere on most OE systems which makes them worth replacing. If this was not true we wouldn’t be writing this story, or the countless other exhaust installContinue Reading
12/1/2004 By: Roger Hewson A lot of ground has been covered in the first two installments of You Need To Hook It Up. Part One covered how important chassis dynamics and weight distribution are and after Part Two everyone should have a better understanding of how important tires are toContinue Reading
11/24/2004 By: Roger Hewson Welcome back to class students. After reading the first installment of our mini-series on putting the power to the ground in your front-wheel-drive car, there should be a decent understanding of how the chassis on your FWD should be set up. In this installment we areContinue Reading
It’s not the actual show that makes SEMA such a treacherous week. If you think about it, the Las Vegas Convention Center doors are only open nine hours a day. That gives plenty of time to relax over dinner, catch some sleep and then hit the show all over againContinue Reading
10/15/2004 By: Roger Hewson Front-wheel-drive cars have come a long way in the last 15 years. It used to be a common belief 200 horsepower was the limit of a FWD platform. Engineers said wheel spin and torque steer were just the beginning of the problems that more power wouldContinue Reading
10/8/2004 By: Roger Hewson Technology is a fabulous thing when it is applied properly, especially in the case of engines. If you look at the K-series motors and compare them to the B-series, you’ll wonder why anyone is still running a B-series. Especially after seeing what happens when you getContinue Reading