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Understanding Driveline Alignment and Eliminating Driveshaft Vibration and...
When putting your car together after an update, or when building up a car from the frame off, you need to consider the drive line alignment when mounting the engine and rear end. Because this is one of...
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“Going to Hell” Reader Responses
Well, it has been two days since we posted comments on a couple of not so good incidences of track safety. The readers response has been huge. What we have learned is that there are strong feelings...
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How To Build A Safer Car
Tips From The Experts Everyone in the business of race car safety will tell you that there is no such thing as a completely safe race car. Race cars are designed to go as fast as possible within the...
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Constructing a Safe Driver Environment
The sport of racing has made huge gains in providing a safer environment for drivers. In this day and age, your chances of injury or death is much less than even ten or fifteen years ago. There are a...
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What Every Safety Crew Should Know
A well-equipped safety crew will have what is needed to fight fires, extract drivers and maintain the track when oil or water is spilled. This crew is suited in fire-resistant clothing and ready to...
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Second-half of Race Season Driving Tips
In the recent past, we have talked about when is a good time to pass and how to do it. We have given some insight on why certain drivers win and how they do it. With the end of the season coming fast,...
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Race Car Setup is an Art Form
The Development of the Setup is a Form of Art The whole process of setting up a race car involves seeing a picture of what you want to develop and then assembling all of the parts and pieces that will...
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Preventing Late Season Failures (Part One)
Throughout the season, things can go wrong unexpectedly. These problems cause loss of points and loss of money, both from fixing the problem and from loss of prize money. So, it is in our best interest...
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Preventing Late Season Failures (Part Two)
When it gets to crunch time in the points battle, the last thing you need is a parts failure. We have some more tips and tricks to help ensure that nothing preventable takes away those precious points...
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Solving Your Handling Problems: Corner Entry
There are many teams still today who struggle throughout the season with their cars handling. Many times, the problem lies somewhere simple where a slight adjustment or a small tuning procedure could...
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Solving Your Handling Problems: Mid Turn
We’re going to continue where we left off in our analysis of your handling woes. If you missed it, we’ve already addressed the problem of an ill-handling machine entering the turn. Now we’ll try to...
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Solving Your Handling Problems: Corner Exit
We’ve covered the entry and mid-turn, now it’s time to see where problems can arise at the exit of the corner. Keep in mind that some handling problems have multiple sources. Before we evaluate our...
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What If Drivers Called Their Own Penalties?
Racing Like Golf? In golf, especially professional golf, players are expected, and most of the time do, call their own penalties. I’m sure in amateur golf that doesn’t happen nearly as often. We’ve all...
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Tuning up Your Brakes
Tips on Race-Car Brake Maintenance One of the hardest working group of parts on our race car are the brakes. At season’s end, as part of our teardown, we need to schedule a time for concentrating...
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Maintaining Your Shocks
Shock maintenance is about problem prevention as much as it is about servicing. Yes, we need to service our shocks on a regular basis, but if the shock is asked to do more than it is capable of, or...
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End of Season Maintenance Tips for your Race Car (Part One)
To Do List For End Of Season Maintenance At the end of a hard year of racing, our race cars are ready for a good looking over. It needs a hard cleaning and some much needed repair work that we might...
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End of Season Maintenance Tips for your Race Car (Part Two)
In Part One of this maintenance to-do list, we went through which chassis components you should check and what you should keep in mind when inspecting them. This installment of our End of Season...
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Save Money by Inspecting Your Motor Parts (Part One)
Here is a thought. What if you did your own teardown of your motor prior to sending it off to your favorite engine builder to freshen up for next season? A part of the fee most engine builders charge...
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Save Money by Inspecting Your Motor Parts (Bottom End)
Save Money By Inspecting Your Motors Parts In our previous installment of this engine teardown checklist we took care of most of the top-end of the engine and then took out the cam and examined the...
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The Reality of Race Car Dynamics
The End of The Dynamics Controversy I’ve presented information on race car dynamics and geometry many times in the past. This piece is unlike any other I’ve written or that you have ever seen anywhere....
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