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At last year’s PRI tradeshow in Orlando, Florida, we happened to catch GZ Motorsports’ racing vacuum pump on display. After talking with company founder Greg Zucco, we’ve given a lot of thought about the VP series Vacuum pumps.
Bilstein has also brought out a new piece for the club racing crowd here at PRI with their B16 CSC Clubsport coilover shock package, designed to be right at home on the road or the racetrack. These shocks will be available spring 2012 for VW Golf VI, BMW M3 (E36 and E46), and Porsche 997 GT 2/GT 3 vehicles.
At the 2011 PRI show, Powermaster rolled out a bunch of new hardware for late-model V8 cars, covering applications for both Blue Oval and Bowtie aficionados.
At the 2011 PRI trade show, we checked in with Richard Keller of Champion Spark Plugs to find out how Champion deals with ever changing technology in automotive engines and fuels to provide a spark plug that lasts and is a good value.
We stopped by the MSD Ignition booth at the PRI tradeshow in Orlando, Florida. We were showed several new product releases specifically for Chevrolet LS engines, check out their complete line here.
Like the racers they serve, wheel manufacturers are in constant competition to improve their products, offer new features, and try to stay ahead of the pack. Forgeline, makers of the rolling stock found on some of the fastest cars on the planet, know this very well, and they’re always looking for ways to improve.
Fueling your daily driver, street/strip ride or full-tilt race car is no joke. How many times have you seen a fellow competitor or heard of someone you knew of, who’s motor ran dry, ultimately melting their mill down.
Whether you race on the strip, oval, or simply just restore cars for a living, having a differential for your application is critical for your success. When we stopped by the folks at Eaton Performance booth at PRI 2011 they reminded us how crucial choosing the correct differential is.
One of the most frustrating things when a engine is on the dyno has to be leaving all of the data and controls behind to walk back into the dyno-room to make an adjustment. Now with Superflow’s latest data acquisition system you can carry the wireless dyno controls and information with you.
While robots will inevitably rise up against us, overthrow and enslave us to toil in their chromium mines and vacuum their houses, in the meantime they turn out some darn good speed parts, and Scorpion Racing Products is making the most of the time we have left by using them to manufacture quality US-made parts.
Here at PRI, Bilstein has launched a number of new products aimed at different markets, including their Drag line of shocks with a street/strip attitude for the Fox body Mustang and F-body Camaro, along with new Universal Motorsports Struts for road racing, oval track, and rally racing applications.
Innovate Motorsports’ new MTX Dual Function Gauges are four gauges: three are dual function, consisting of oil pressure/oil Temp, water temp/voltage, and a boost/shift light. The fourth gauge is a exhaust gas temp gauge, which doesn’t require a secondary function.
Lincoln Electric is well known for their welders and the ability to join metal, with the release of their new Tomahawk line of Plasma cutters, they may become better known for the ability to cut metal precisely at any location. We checked out the Tomahawk Plasma cutters at this year’s PRI tradeshow.
The braintrust of K1 and Wiseco has resulted in a series of products that have been designed specifically to benefit the other, and to maximize each part’s inner potential.
We stopped by McLeod Industries booth at PRI 2011 to check out their complete driveline solution. They also showed off their new clutch that is ready for 2500HP+ applications. Watch the video here.
Among the many high-end race component manufactures available to us during the PRI 2011 Show was Aerospace Components. Aerospace’s newest parts consisted of their F-Body brake kit for ’93-04 F-Bodies and their transmission cable bracket including the bellcrank feature.
Deciding whether or not to invest in a chassis dyno can be a tough decision. At the 2011 PRI tradeshow we had the opportunity to speak with a variety of race shops, engine builders, and race teams and get their opinion of Dynojet chassis dynamometers. Watch the video here.
We got a chance to see how DynoJet Research and SCT Performance’s partnership works to benefit automotive enthusiasts. Read more about it here.
When we stopped by the Crane Cams booth at PRI 2011 we were reminded just how far digital CD ignitions have come in the short time that Crane has been producing them.
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No, not all late-’80s G-body Malibu’s have been turned into three-wheel dippin’ low riders. While seeing one sitting on a set of 1,000-spoke Dayton’s is pretty cool, throwing one down at the drag strip or during an open-track event won’t net you the greatest return.
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