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
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
9/22/2004 By: Roger Hewson No one likes stock suspension; not even the people who designed it. Compromises have to be made here and there to keep 12 different focus groups happy and the ride height needs to be kept at semi truck height so when grandma drives over a parkingContinue Reading
High-Performance Exhaust: Legalize It 8/21/2003By: Chris Neprasch On a morning in early July, Chris Cruz was driving his blue 1992 Acura Integra through the streets of West Covina, California. His DA has a lowered stance, carbon fiber hood and rolls on 16-inch Work wheels. It is obviously a modified carContinue Reading
6/21/2002 By: Scott Croughwell Los Angeles has the dubious honor of being the one city in the United States with the heaviest automotive traffic. Average Angelinos sit in traffic an average of 124 hours per year; thus, we’ve thought of many things to do during that slow crawl home onContinue Reading