How Tos

When it comes to engine oil, maintaining the right temperature range is key to longevity and minimizing internal wear. That’s because engine oil relies on its viscosity—the thickness of the […]

Valvetrain geometry can be a finicky thing in pushrod V8 engines, especially when aftermarket heads, cam, lifters, and valvetrain are added to the mix. Sometimes you get lucky and everything […]

I’m building a small block Chevy and I think it would make more compression if I could mill the heads to drop combustion chamber volume from 76cc to 70cc, but […]

I have a 1970 SBC 350 in a 1968 Camaro. It’s all old-school with a flat tappet hydraulic cam, carburetor, mechanical cooling fan, and other details. Can the cam timing […]

Black rubber coolant hose has three great advantages: it’s cheap, it works, and it’s everywhere. It’s also so ordinary looking it might as well be invisible. When you want an […]

I recently made a trip to California…and unexpectedly wound up with a car. Not just any car either, a vintage air-cooled Porsche 911 gifted to me by a beloved relative. […]

I’m not sure if anyone reading this actually enjoys bleeding brakes. The traditional two-person brake bleeding process—one to do the actual brake bleeding while the other pushes the brake pedal—works […]

Seat belts have been federally mandated equipment in new cars since 1966. They have saved countless thousands of lives and should be in every hot rod, street machine, muscle car, […]

I’ve been working on cars for over 50 years. During that time, I’ve had two close calls with cars falling off jacks and jack stands. The first involved preparing the […]

You may ask why anyone outside of a concours restorer would be using a points-ignition distributor in this age of electronically controlled everything. A properly rebuilt and tuned points distributor […]