TI Automotive Launches “Pick Your Horsepower” Parts Lookup Tool
TI Automotive, a manufacturer of fuel pumps and modules for performance enthusiasts, has launched its “Pick Your Horsepower” digital search tool on the company’s aftermarket website. Replacing the traditional method of manually searching for the right high-performance fuel pump, the interactive “Pick Your Horsepower” tool provides a dynamic digital catalog to search for universal fuel pump
Intellectual Horsepower – Ep. 2
From Lewis Hamilton to a new fastest production vehicle, we give you the latest racing and performance updates.
Intellectual Horsepower – Ep. 1
Welcome to Intellectual Horsepower, Engine Builder’s new podcast covering engine building, racing and performance topics. This episode we talk about NASCAR, NHRA, IndyCar, and more.
Episode 1: Insane Engine Moments – Stolen Horsepower
As an engine builder, you never know what each day may bring. It’s always something different. However, Charlie Buck Jr., owner of Buck Racing Engines in King, NC, wasn’t expecting this!
Holley Sniper EFI High-Horsepower Super Sniper 4150
Holley/MSD has announced the release of Sniper EFI’s High-Horsepower Super Sniper 4150 in two versions – one with eight 100 pound-per-hour injectors for forced-induction engines making 1,250 horsepower, and one with four 100 pound-per-hour injectors for engines making up to 650 horsepower.
Tempering Horsepower Heat: Keeping Your Cool with Heat-Handling Accessories
Engines produce lots of heat, and the more horsepower they make the more heat they generate. Only about 35 to 40 percent of the heat energy released during combustion in a gasoline engine performs useful work by creating pressure that pushes the pistons down their bores. Diesels are a little better at 40 to 45 percent efficiency thanks to a higher compression ratio and reduced pumping losses (no throttle restriction). Even so, all internal combustion engines waste more heat than they put to good use.
Pistons and Rings – The Technical Price for Horsepower
Pistons and piston rings have been a hot topic of discussion among engine builders. At some point in our past, it seems as though there have been some piston shape and design changes along with some applied thermal and friction coatings – the same can also be said for piston rings. Piston rings seem to have become smaller with different shapes, finishes and coatings.
Hidden Horsepower – How Simple Machining Steps Can Provide a Win-Win Power Upgrade
In the automotive industry, power and reliability have always been the quest of all engine builders and racers. There are many time-honored methods of increasing horsepower and the same with making engines more reliable. But modifications can sometimes have residual effects and overtax another area of the engine, even compromising reliability. For example, raising compression
Pistons and Rings – The Technical Price for Horsepower
One of the most overlooked components of the internal combustion engine is the piston ring. It is, by scale, one of the hardest working components in the engine. And when you are building an engine, before choosing your piston rings you have to determine your application.
Honoring Horsepower History in Horse Country
Nestled next to King’s Florence Speedway in Walton, a half-mile, clay, oval track carved into the top of a hill, sits the Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame – a 2,500-sq. ft. building that seems to be bursting at the seams with racing late model history and memorabilia. Everything from helmets, clothing and trophies of racing legends to parts and complete vehicles themselves, pack this pole building.
British Invasion – All the King’s Horsepower
Interest in British sports cars grew in the U.S. after World War II, when soldiers returning from England brought MG TCs home with them. Soon other sports cars came from “across the pond.”
How to Build Horsepower – Ford 461ci Windsor V8
Australian engine specialists Dandy Engines building a small block Ford Windsor 461ci stroker for Pat Staplton. Follow the engine assembly as the guys aim to make more than 820hp naturally aspirated on regular pump unleaded 98-RON. Pat plans on putting this brute of an engine into a Ford Falcon XD/XF.
Adding Horsepower to a Ford 461ci Windsor V8
Engine specialists Dandy Engines build a small block Windsor 461ci stroker for Pat Staplton. Follow the engine assembly as the guys aim to make more than 820hp naturally aspirated on regular pump unleaded. Pat plans on putting this brute of an engine into a Ford Falcon XD/XF Ute.
Put Real Horsepower Into Your Hot Rod with COMP Cams’ Thumpr Camshafts
You’ve built your dream car. Now make your dream of an aggressive-sounding, high-performance ride come true with a Thumpr Camshaft. With the combination of early intake valve opening, long exhaust duration and a generous amount of overlap, Thumpr Cams from COMP Cams maximize your engine’s nasty-idling characteristics without negatively impacting streetability. Thumpr Cams offer performance and aggressive
740 Horsepower Ford with LS1 COP
Custom Built Ford Engine for customer race car. 414 Cubic Inch. Using LS1 COP with BigStuff3 Engine Management system. Engine averaged 740 hp with back to back pulls.
Build With Bolt-On Horsepower, But Proceed With Caution
Whether the speed equipment is old school hardware or electronic in nature, you can be sure it is designed to turn automobile engines into more efficient air pumps. “Because the engine really is an air pump, I tell my customers one of the biggest things they can do is bolt on a different exhaust system,”
Build Horsepower the David Vizard Way
The principle speaker for the event will be tech author and engine guru David Vizard. He is recognized as one of the top authorities on the production of high engine output. Along with Vizard’s expertise, the seminar will also freature a presentation by Chris Osborn of Pac Springs, who will be showing high-speed video of
Still Seats Available For ‘How To Build Horsepower’ Seminar March 11-13
With only little more than a week to go, there are still a handful of seats left in the "How To Build Horsepower" seminar by David Vizard, being held held March 11-13 at the University of Northwestern Ohio. Eighteen months in the making, this seminar will be delivered largely by David Vizard, who claims his
How Piston Rings Affect Horsepower
The rings seal the pistons to prevent air and oil from being drawn past the rings into the combustion chamber during the intake stroke. During the compression stroke, the rings make sure the air/fuel stays in the combustion chamber and is fully compressed before it is ignited. During the power stroke, the rings prevent pressure