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C4 Corvette 2.1
Jeff McCormick's blown-injected, drag race inspired Pro Street C4 Corvette is one radical piece thanks to his personal vision and...
Testing ProForm’s Wireless Vehicle Scales
ProForm Performance Parts has take the art of chassis scaling to the next level with its wireless scale set that eliminates the messy task of positioning the scales...
Lumin8: V8 Powered 1993 Lumina Z/34
The Lumin8 Chevy Lumina makes a stunning street car with V8 power. Not an engine swap per se, but a radical body and chassis swap that creates a V8 powered Chevy Lumina with plenty of street prowess and hot rodding ingenuity...
Summit Racing’s 50th Anniversary Salute
Summit Racing is one of the most recognized names in the high-performance industry; eclipsing all other high-performance retailers by a wide margin. Literally, millions of high-performance cars, trucks, hot rods and race cars have been...
Cammer Powered Doomsday Galaxie
Quite a departure from your standard tunnel rams and roots blower combinations typical of Pro Street rides, but every bit as businesslike; Ring's Galaxie 500 packs death star power potential wrapped in galactic black and silver trim.
LS3, 6-speed 1985 Fiero Swap
Here's a 1985 Fiero SE that has been retrofitted with an LS3 430hp Corvette engine and 6-speed manual transmission for the ultimate in small car engine swap performance. A professionally done swap that looks almost factory and runs like a rocket. The power to weight ratio on this baby is pretty favorable...
Racing the NMCA-West with Our Low Buck Corvette
We entered our Low Buck "Beyond the Crate" supercar in the True Street division of the National Muscle Car Association's Springnationals at the Auto Club Dragway in Fontana and came away with a great performance and a lot of new friends with common interests.
Energy Suspension C4 Corvette Upgrade
The cure for our Corvette's mushy suspension was a clear cut path to Energy Suspension in San Clemente, California for a full suspension upgrade with their polyurethane bushing Corvette Hyper Flex Master Kit PN 3-18122 for 1985-95 Corvettes.
Affordable Corvette Supercar: Beyond the Crate II
A 1995 C4 Corvette is one of the sexiest and most affordable supercars you can buy. They are available from 5-7K and they are already equipped with a fuel injected LT1 engine and a very competitive handling package. With the possible exception of wheels and tires...
Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2016
The future of motorsports remains in jeopardy! The Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports (RPM) Act is critical to protecting the industry. Congressional action is the only way to guarantee that street vehicles can continue to be modified for the track well into...
383 Beyond the Crate LT1 Parts List
The following parts for the Beyond the Crate 383 project are available through Summit Racing except where noted. These are Summit part numbers which you can use to find them on Summit's web site...
383 Chevy: Beyond the Crate!
Building a Bad Ass Supercar for under twenty grand with a six thousand dollar C4 Corvette and a powerful new LT1 stroker engine package. This build is based on an OEM '95 LT1 Corvette block and will use a set of ported aluminum...
1969 Z/28 Canted Valve 302
An in depth look at a one-off all aluminum canted valve, crossram inducted Chevrolet small block evaluated for the '69 Z/28. A glimpse of something so unique and bad ass for its day...
Ford Debuts 2016 Mustang Cobra Jet Drag Package
The new 2016 Cobra Jet Mustang sports a blown Coyote 5.0L V8 engine with a refined Whipple 2.9L supercharger pumping up the power to almost....
Why You Want ARP Bolts for Your Engine
ARP is the first thing you think of when you need fasteners for your race engine. Need some head bolts? Call ARP. Need a complete fastener kit? Call ARP...
Top Pro Street Engines from the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals
Hot Pro Street engines were in plentiful supply at the 2014 Car Craft Street Machine Nationals this past weekend in DuQuoin, Illinois. Participants and spectators were treated to a dazzling display of top quality cars and engines...
Finding Vintage Big Blocks
Vintage Big Blocks www.vintagebigblocks.com stands out with an easy to use web site that lists all the original blocks, cranks, heads, and manifolds they have collected for sale. Owner David Swartz (Swartz Enterprises) provides a well organized web site with listings by year...
Ford FE Engine Power Secrets
Ford built FEs from 1958 through 1976, in a wide variety of configurations. Displacements included 332, 352, 360, 390, 406, 410, 427, and 428. From a performance perspective the best known engines are the 427s found in the original 427 Cobras, Galaxies, Fairlanes, and Cougars, and the...