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Bret Voelkel, founder and president of RideTech, didn’t have to look far to find inspiration to improve the hard-riding suspensions his contemporaries had grown uncomfortably accustomed to.
Air Ride has become well known in hot rodding circles for not only building kick-ass suspension systems, but debuting some of the cleanest project cars of just about every make and model. As such, the team at Air Ride has been building a ’68 Camaro which will come close to topping just about every creation they have built so far.
Racers who want build a 2010 Camaro drag car or road racer will find the 2010 Camaro as a great platform. GM Performance Parts wants to help return the Camaro to racing glory and is offering 2010 Camaro body in white packages.
Drag racers have had a good problem for the past few years – horsepower, and lots of it. It seems in just a short few years, door slammers have become brutally fast to the point of surpassing the mandated chassis certifications. We contacted chassis builder and SFI committee member Bryan Metz about what exactly the 25.3 cert will entail.
Drag racers have long favored the straight axle as the best source of traction when the tree goes green. Imagine my surprise after asking Graham Behan, Lingenfelter Performance Engineering’s chief engineer, what they did to the IRS on their ZR1 Vette project to achieve a 1.5-second 60-foot time… and the answer was “Nothing”.
Hey kiddies! It’s been a while since we’ve last heard a peep out of our Pro Street/g-Machine ’71 Nova nicknamed “Swinger,” we know. But be not dismayed! There’s all sorts of cool stuff coming down the line for our venerable classic conversion Bowtie.
n the last few years, more OEM’s have been making vehicles equipped with twenty-inch wheels as a standard option. If you have a hopped up daily driver that fits in this category, you have been forced to buy an extra pair of wheels so you can downsize to a smaller drag radial. That is, until Nitto released their 20” drag radials that we installed on our Trailblazer SS.
Be very careful of what you wish for! My little buddy Tom, the FNG, found it really funny to blog about my shoes. I took that to mean that he was an expert on shoes. Only makes sense to me.
Energy Suspension came through again and hooked us up with the perfect shop dawg gift. New high performance tires for our shop vehicle. We’ve been watching the project cars get upgraded with all these high performance tires from Mickey Thompson, Nitto and Cooper. Now the shop dawgs have some meats for our ride.
Not to be mistaken for any run-of-the-mill soccer mom’s grocery-getter, our 450-horsepower, LS2-powered “Project Blackout” is now packing some serious heat. You might remember from past features that our goal was to be able to propel this big beast down past the traps well within the 12′s.
We have installed a complete BMR front suspension system on the F-body, but that’s a completely different article where we give you ALL of those details. This is just an update… so enjoy.
Our latest performance upgrade involves a rear end change, replacing the wimpy stock rear end with a beefy Fabricated Ford 9-inch that could easily handle the rest of the drive train upgrades and wouldn’t be spitting gears and axles all over the pavement. A Moser M9 was chosen for the project.
Depending on who you speak to, we lose 10- to 20-percent of our torque due to friction losses in the drivetrain. Naturally, no one likes losing torque after spending so much money and working so hard to create this rotating force. This is, after all, the force we use to move the car…
The F-Body is one of the most popular platforms in the history of automotive performance. With that popularity comes a huge selection of suspension parts that makes picking the right ones for your car a real challenge.
The Pontiac G8 GXP was unleashed from the factory with a 6.2 liter (396 ci) LS3 Corvette engine rated at 415 horsepower and coupled to a Tremec TR-6060 manual transmission for an impressive 0 to 60 in 4.5 seconds and 13 second quarter mile time.
While we intend to reign over the other carb engine cars on the track, we know that having the brawn to stop is essential to a good safe run. For this Herculean task, we hand-picked the Wilwood Brakes Dynalite drag race rear axle kit and the newly released Dynapro big brake front hat kit.
Bringing Project Swinger, a ’71 Chevy Nova Coupe, into the new millennium as a retro street racer with a hi-tech edginess to it has led to some real challenges in the build.
Baer Brakes offers a great-looking and big stopping “EXTREME PLUS” brake system for late model C6 that has the race car technology and performance you need when “good enough” just isn’t good enough.
We’ve been hearing a lot of buzz on the forums about air suspension systems in recent months due in no small part to suspension pioneers like Air Ride. But like many people, we had always thought air suspension was for semi-trucks or super slammed low riders.
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We’ve been finishing up the full Air Ride suspension, we mounted up the Currie 9-inch rear end, and the SSBC brakes, and now we’re waiting for a full LS3 engine mount/swap conversion kit from BRP Hot Rods. Shawn is really dialing us in with everything we need for the Nova swap.
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