A loose nut or bolt can lead to an early end for your night of racing. Here's some tips on how to prevent this
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Improperly installed safety belts can be an express ticket to the hospital. Find out how to properly install your safety belts so you can race safely on Saturday night
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A basic floor jack can be easily modified into a specialty jack that will make shop work easier
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Going raing doesn't have to be a financial strain. Click here to find out some ways to have fun on the track and still have money left for gas
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Improperly torqued lugnuts can ruin an otherwise great night of racing, and ding up your wallet at the same time. Sleepy Gomez shows the right way to torque your lug nuts and a helpful tool to make it easy.
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A do-it-yourself way to check the accuracy of your torque wrench to make sure your bolts and nuts stay tight.
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How to perform an easy fix on your aluminum or brass radiator
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In the last two issues, we built a trailer to haul our race car. It wasrather inexpensive at about $306 for everything but the wheels, axles,and tires. They came from under a mobile home at no cost other thancrawling underneath to get them out. Even so,
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In Part 1 I covered building the basic frame of a budget race cartrailer. It was fitted with 6,000-pound mobile-home axles. They areplentiful throughout most of the country, and some are even free if youwant to crawl under a mobile home to get them. Our
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Sometimes we bucks-down racers spend all our money on the race car andthen have to borrow a trailer to get it to the track. This is an all toofamiliar scenario, so I sat down to devise a simple open trailer thatwill safely transport my beloved car at an
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If you are a pro engine builder, skip this article. If you have built upa few engines with some success, then read this lightly. If you've neverput an engine together with your own hands, this article should give youthe help you need.
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A racing seat won't do much good if it doesn't stay where is supposed to - we show you how to ensure it does
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How to mount a racing seat - safely.
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On the surface, handling and storing racing fuel appears to be simple. However, racers can make a lot of mistakes. To find out the most common errors and to gather some tips for handling fuel safely, Stock Car Racing found some advice that all racers shou
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For the average Saturday night racer, common car floor jacks are either too heavy or too inconvenient to use at the track, and buying a full-fledged racing jack is too pricey. One solution is to take an inexpensive jack and, with a few modifications, turn it
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When a race team wants to buy a welder, just what does it need to know before shelling out the bucks? We went to the showroom floor to ask a number of welding manufacturers for advice on selecting among these versatile pieces of equipment. The first order of
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Stock Car Racing offers original, limited edition posters commemorating Dale Earnhardt’s racing career. These 11" x 17" posters are offered individually or as a set, and are printed on heavy stock paper suitable for mounting. Individual posters are of
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Like most of us, when buying something new you’ve asked yourself, which one should I get? With the quantity of different scales available, it can become a little confusing to figure out which is best for your needs. But don’t let this decision weigh
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Trying to keep your race car looking good can become frustrating. You may want the best paint job available, but in the back of your mind you know that the paint will be ground up and spit out all season. You also know that the value of a great looking paint
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Ask Tony Stewart how he won six races in the 2000 Winston Cup season and he’ll give you this answer: He honestly doesn’t know. But Stewart says he’s figured out what he needs to do this year to give Joe Gibbs a twin to Bobby Labonte’s 2000
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Let’s crush the myth once and for all. You cannot walk up to a NASCAR team, offer to sweep its shop floor, and work your way up to driver. Sure, that’s the way it used to be. But even Davey Allison, who swept the floor at Bobby Allison Racing for 50
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As the level of technology elevates racing, so does the amount of equipment needed to be competitive. What you use in the way of parts and tools at the shop is usually what you need to take to the track. Short of having two separate sets of tools and parts, th
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Racing is dirty business. Grit and grime, wear and tear, wreck and repair are all part of goin' racin'. All this mess has to be cleaned up, serviced, and returned to near perfect condition in order to continue being competitive. Unfortunately, not
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When fractions of a second count, Winston Cup drivers have to depend on the performance of their pit crews--the seven men who go over the wall to service the car throughout the race, and keep them constantly in contention to win on Sundays. A team can have a s
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