We slide a Genn III engine into Glad's El Camino and tell you how it's done.
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Stock Rear Brakes Giving You Fits? Stock rear brakes giving you fits? We show you how to get big brakes for 10- and 12- bolt axl
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We show you how easy it is to convert a Gen III engine to a carb with the MSD LS6 Ignition-Control Box.
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Your Control Arms for Cheap
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If Those Cracked And Nasty Vent Wings Make Your Chevelle Look Like A Junkyard Refugee, Then Reclaim The Quiet With A . . .
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Don't Throw Away That Rusty Fender. We'll Show You How To Easily Revive That Sacred Sheetmetal.
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Don't Let The Custom Guys Have All The Fun- Get Attention With
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Maintaining your paint job is easier than you think with these tips on how to detail your car.
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Jeff Smith Answers Some Of Our Readers' Questions
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Follow along as an El Camino is prepped and painted.
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Can't Id That Color? Not Ready To Commit To A New Paint Job? It's Still Possible To...
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Can You See Right Through The Rust Hole In Your Trunk? Fix It Inexpensively With Our Do It Yourself Trunk Repair.
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The Basics Of High Performance
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The Basics Of High Performance
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It’s now been a year since we first introduced our project ’78 Malibu (The Ultimate Malibu .) If you’ve been following along, you’ll also know that for the first time, rather than mindlessly dropping in a mega-horsepower big-block and toppi
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Any good bodyman will tell you that surface prep is at least as important as the paint itself. Cheap paint over crisp, straight body lines always looks better than nice paint over waves. Similarly, poor panel fit after the fact can ruin even the straightest pa
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One of the recent car crafting trends is something we’d never have predicted if you’d have asked us 10 years ago. That trend is making mods that don’t necessarily make your car go any faster—such as brakes, safety equipment, and reliabilit
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It can be hard to purchase parts that don’t offer some sort of aesthetic appeal or an obvious increase in power. Take the fuel system, for example. A trick fuel pump doesn’t really make power, it simply allows you to support the power your engi
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We’ve built everything from stock 289s to monstrous 496ci blown big- blocks and dumped them into every conceivable four-wheel make, model, and brand—only we’ve never paid much attention to the suspension. That makes us wonder if it really was t
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Anyone who thinks four-wheel manual drum brakes are “good enough” for his car must have never driven it in Los Angeles. Sure, Southern California is an old-car mecca, but traversing the overcrowded freeways crawling with half-baked drivers puts our
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Car restoration is full of exhilarating experiences—like breaking in the cam on a fresh motor, rolling the freshly painted shell out of the body shop, or setting off on the maiden shakedown run. Rebuilding the front suspension isn’t that exciting;
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Having your street machine stolen is a stomach-wrenching experience. Through a desperately needed stroke of good luck, the police recovered our ’70 Chevelle. Of course, the model citizens who pilfered Cheap Street managed to mangle a few things on the car
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In the story entitled "Blower How-To," we bolted a Vortech V-1S to our 305-powered 1991 Camaro and hit the track. The supercharger produced 10 psi of the good stuff and ran a not-so-healthy 14.48 at an equally gutless 93 mph. Considering the baseline for this
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Although your street machine may be sharp on the outside, oftentimes the inside of the trunk isn't so hot. Trunks often serve double-duty as parts haulers, shuttling greasy blocks, heads, tranny guts, and even grimy rear gears.
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Bolting on a supercharger can be either an adventure of a lifetime or a long series of nightmares. We’ve seen both. Whichever card fortune deals you, the result is the same: big power and the ultimate speed part singing a tune only the experienced ear ca
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