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Wanna make jokes about the color of Al Stacko’s award-winning ride? You’d best bring your A-game material, friend, because he has heard them all and emerged unflustered. “Some guys from […]

Right about now, Ryan Hopkins and his crew at Cat House Customs are on the road to the 2019 SEMA Show in Las Vegas with a fresh hot rod—and wondering […]

Q: What is rod ratio? … A: Rod ratio is the relationship between the Connecting Rod Length and the Stroke Length of the crankshaft. How is it calculated? Use the following formula to calculate rod […]

It’s no secret that yanking a Gen. 3 or Gen. 4 Vortec truck engine out of the junkyard is the cheapest way to make 400+ horsepower. 5.3L engines start in […]

“I’m gonna give my Mouse some laughing gas, add some zoomies, throw on some big baloneys, and hit the quarter-mile with my Tri-Five.” OK–who talks like that really? Probably no […]

When Dennis Chillik purchased his first car—a 1968 Ford Torino GT—he couldn’t have imagined that 50 years later he would be piloting it down the quarter-mile in a Summit Racing […]

For St. Patricks Day, we were going to share a traditional meal of corned beef and cabbage. But we can’t cook–and we didn’t know where to send your invitation. Instead, […]

Steel or aluminum? H-beam or I-beam? And don’t even get us started on rod length and rod ratios! Yes, there are a lot of factors that go into choosing the right […]

As a child, few things were more exciting than opening gifts on Christmas morning. Now, as a grown-up (sort of), it’s hard to the beat the anticipation and excitement of opening […]

A while back, we told you about Summit Racing’s new Forged Steel Crankshafts. Now to complement those cranks, Summit Racing just expanded its lineup of connecting rods made from forged […]