If you spend any time under the hood or under your car, every time you remove a bolt it's usually dirty, maybe greasy and sometimes a bit rusty. You don't want to spin that back into the hole after you've put all of that work into your repair, so you grab a wire brush and try to clean it up or maybe you take it over to that wire wheel on your grinder. Either way, it's a little … [Read more...]
Distributor Test Machines are Once Again Extinct
Several years ago I wrote an article about King Electronics, a company in California that had purchased the name of the original, but out of business, King Company of Cleveland. Their aim was to bring back the King distributor testers many of us remember from years gone by. Sun and King were the big names of the machines found in garages and speed shops decades ago, (actually, … [Read more...]
Another Look at ICEngineWorks Exhaust Header Modeling Blocks
Several years ago, I wrote about ICEngineWorks header modeling blocks. I thought they were an incredibly cool idea that makes header fabrication for those impossible engine fitments a far more manageable task. Instead of trial and error, you could now work the header tubes into those tight spots and around crazy bends without the wasted work and headaches you always faced … [Read more...]
Distributor Test Machines Make a Comeback
Working on that American muscle car back in the 60s, you didn't have a computer diagnostic port where the car told you what was wrong, if you thought the ignition might be an issue, you checked the plugs, the points, the distributor cap and all of the associated wiring. Maybe you changed the springs on the centrifugal advance to change the curve, hoping to get the best from … [Read more...]
ICEngineWorks Exhaust Header Modeling Blocks – Make Custom Headers Like a Pro
The original Ford GT40, had a pretty sweet exhaust system appropriately called a "basket of snakes" reflecting the intertwined tubes running over the engine and out the back. Some of us look at a system like that and our first thought is of the time and frustration involved putting it together for the first time. ICEngineWorks might have made their day a little easier and if … [Read more...]