Everyone seems to have their own theory for engine break-in procedures these days, but sometimes sticking to the old-fashioned way of doing things is the best. "Getting a new engine is a wonderful thing, some liken it to having a new child," says Ben Smeding,
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When your background is in auto restoration, folks pay attention to which cars you choose to build. Down South in Gastonia, North Carolina, Kim Haynes is one of those auto restorers to whom folks listen. He had completed several NASCAR restorations, but his he
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To many people Estonia, one of the Baltic states, has always been a part of Russia (or, at least, the Soviet Union). The fall of the USSR has re-established Estonia and the Baltic states as independent sovereignties. In Estonia, with 1.5 million inhabitants, t
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Proper Parts Typically, a kit car consists of a bunch of parts that you, the owner, put together to get a running vehicle at the end. Generally speaking, the manufacturer or supplier of the kit car builds only a portion of the vehicle-usually, the fiberglass
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As the Editor of KIT CAR magazine, I get to drive countless kit cars and race cars on the track and around the street. Tough job, I know.
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How Kit Car Racers Squeeze Out More Power or Get Better PerformanceWith a trophy on the line, the combatants at our past 15 Run and Gun events have shown dexterity, creativity, and skill in eking out every last horse and fine-tuning their handling and perfor
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Recently, SRMA (the Street Rod Council of SEMA) has, under its umbrella, included and expanded its definition and support of "street modified" and "kit cars." I thought it would be interesting to point out the crossover similarities between all of these vehicl
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We all need the best safety equipment we can find. That is true whether your kit or component car ever sees the track or not. It is even more crucial, though, if you test yourself and your car in race conditions. If professional race car drivers use the best e
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Who would have thought that out of America's Dairyland would come an Italianesque car that really turns heads? Based in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, the Aldino Car Co. has transformed a Fiero platform into something Ferrari might have dreamed up but didn't...the Aldi
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Ever wonder how the pros get their engines looking so good? It's not as difficult or expensive as you would think. These basic tips can help you start detailing with the best of them, and the procedures will also work well on other parts of your project vehicl
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Every kit car project is much more than just building something of which we can be proud. More importantly perhaps, it's a learning process by which we add information to our car-building memory banks. Sometimes we even learn from our mistakes--mistakes we hop
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OK, we'll admit it--not every kit car manual is exactly a wealth of usable information. Some are quite good, but many consist of a set of amateurish line drawings and vague instructions such as:
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Building a component car, even though it may be considered complete, usually requires some effort in gathering parts, accomplishing niggling little details, or finding some good ideas that could be incorporated in the project. We know, by the volume of mail yo
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