Old School Ignition Fixes: Half a Dozen Little Tune Up Tips
While all of today’s cars are computer-controlled, there are still a few of us “antiques” out there who deal with the cars and parts of yesteryear.
General Engine
RacingJunk’s Best 0f 2025: How-Tos and Tech Tips
Our Best of 2025 How-Tos highlight the most practical, informative, and hands-on guides published this year—content designed to help enthusiasts wrench smarter, buy with confidence, and get more out of their builds.
Reciprocal Knowledge Part 2: Two Dozen Fast Facts About Cranks & Connecting Rods
When we left you the last time around, we presented a dozen different fast facts on connecting rods, crankshafts and associated components.
Balancing Act: The Right Way To R&R Harmonic Balancers
Removing and installing a balancer (harmonic damper) is an exercise fraught with headaches.
Reciprocal Knowledge
Two Dozen Fast Facts About Cranks & Connecting Rods – Part 1
Balancing Act: The Right Way To R&R Harmonic Balancers
Removing and installing a balancer (harmonic damper) is an exercise fraught with headaches.
Tool Review: Channellock 212 Oil Filter Pliers
This simple, inexpensive tool makes oil changes a snap, no matter how hard the guy at Take 5 cranked your oil filter on last time.
PAINLESS CONNECTING ROD DISASSEMBLY
A rod vise can be key to fixing multiple connectors for your engine.
Piston Persuasion: How To Install Pistons
There are a number of different ways to install pistons (with rings, obviously) and connecting rods in your engine. Different builders take different approaches.
Back to Basics: Jet Extensions
Pin the throttle, dump the clutch, hang on. The car hooks and rockets forward. Then, just as you’re watching the tach as it bends toward the redline, the thing noses over