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Air Conditioning/Heat:
Vintage
Air Tex Tips.
Vintage
Air Tech Downloads.
Body & Chassis:
Choosing the Right Equipment - Competition Engineering
Rust
& You
Sub
Frame Basics: Camaro-Nova
Brakes:
1968 Camaro -- Front-Brakes Conversion
'63-'64
Brake Upgrade
Blue Oval Bolt-on Binders
Bolt-On Brakes: Upgrading to four-wheel discs with Stainless
Steel Brakes' bolt-on kit
Bolt-On
GM Aluminum Calipers
Braking To Aviod Breaking
C-Body Disc-Brake Conversion
Flathead
Ford V8
Quickest
Discs: Stainless Steel Brakes Disc-Brake Conversion Kit
Stainless Steel Brakes’ Six-Cylinder Disc Brake Conversion
Swap Your Six For a Great V8: Upgrade That Six-Cylinder Mustang
to V-8 Status
Classic
Performance Products (tech articles)
Car Care:
Cooling System:
Cooling
Woes
Cool Tech Articles from Arrowhead Radiators
Flathead
Ford V8
Electrical
Basic DC Electricity and It's Application in Old Trucks
Flathead
Ford V8
Restoration:
Determining
if your car worth restoring (Auto Restorer Online).
Flathead
Ford V8
Philosophy
of Car Restoration (Auto Restorer Online).
How
To Start A Frame Off Restoration (Auto Restorer Online).
Food
for Thought on Restoration (Auto Restorer Online).
Restoration Articles from The Guild of Automotive Restorers.
Steering & Suspension:
Anti-Sway
Bar Diameter/Stiffness Formula.
Auto
handling theory
Classic
Performance Products (tech articles)
Flathead
Ford V8
Handling
Adjustment Chart
How
do stabilizer bars work (by How Stuff Works).
How
sway bars work, and why people use them (by houseofthud.com).
How control bars affect handling (by Canadian Driver).
Improved
Handling with Anti-Sway Bars (by SCR Motorsports).
Rear Sway Bars: Improving FWD Handling (by AutoSpeed).
Shock Absorbers (by Monroe Shocks).
Stiffer, Stronger, Faster! (Popular Hot Rodding).
Struts
(by Monroe Shocks).
Suspension
101 - Components of Suspension & What They Do (by Leo Zick).
Suspension
102 – Tuning your car to Perform (by Leo Zick).
Suspension Terminology Guide (by Monroe Shocks).
Suspension
Upgrades: Step-By-Step Handling Improvements (Hot Rod Magazine).
Suspension System Fundamentals (by Monroe Shocks).
Swaybar
Design (by Scott Mueller).
Sway bar rate increase by diameter
Understanding the Basics of Chassis, Suspension &
Traction Equipment (by Competition Engineering).
Understanding Vehicle Dynamics (by Monroe Shocks).
What Is Ride Control? (by Monroe shocks).
Tires & Wheels:
Tools:
How
I Built My Own Automotive Rotisserie
Tuning, Engine:
Adjusting the valve train - Crane Cams
Choosing
a Magneto - Don Zig Magnetos
Flathead
Ford V8
Competition
Cams - links to articles on their website.
Various
Tech tips from the Stovebolt Engine Parts Co.
Various Tech articles from Diabolical Performance.
Upholstery:
Installing
Headliners: Special Instructions For One Piece Headliners
Other Tech Resources:
Automotive Definitions and Definitions for Automotive
Parts A-Z
Autobody Repair Definitions
Autoshop 101
Buy
Classiccars.com (articles on purchasing and restoration)
Classic
Industries - GM restoration tips.
Classic
Performance Products (tech articles)
Flathead
Ford V8
Ford
Truck Enthusiasts
Hotrodders.com
Knowledge Base
How Stuff
Works (great resource).
Inner
Auto Parts dictionary of automotive terms.
LubeDev
Articles on oil and gas (very interesting).
Project 33
Studebaker
Technical Information
Tech
Articles from Hot Rod Hotline
Tech
Articles from Auto Shop 101 in PDF format
GM
Goodwrench Tech Center
Generator
Facts: information about portable generators.
In The News
The Bum Rap on Biofuels (2008).
Don’t Freak Out--Bjørn Lomborg
speaks climate sense to nonsense (2008).
The Trouble With Ethanol (2008).
Ethanol fires harder to control than gasoline,
require special foam (2008).
In Defense of "Big Oil"(2008).
Oil - Too "Complex"? (2008).
Oil at $120: Here's Why (2008).
Chill Out on Climate Hysteria (2008).
More Carbon Dioxide, Please (2008).
The Environmentalists' Real Agenda (2008).
Ethanol's Failed Promise (2008).
Trash today, ethanol tomorrow: Invention
promises major advance in biofuel production--No Corn! (2008).
Why 'Global Warming' is Not a Global Crisis
(2008)
Media Revelation: Ethanol is Causing Inflation
(2008).
Pols Drunk On Corn-Based Ethanol Have Left
Millions With Hangover (2008).
'Global Warming' as Pathological Science
(2007).
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming: Part 1/4 (2007).
Fire & Ice - History of Global Warming/Cooling
Scares (2007).
U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent
Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007.
Driver ticketed for using biofuel (2007).
Study Finds Certain Ethanol Blends Can
Provide Better Fuel Economy Than Gasoline (2007).
Don't Look to Government to Cool Down the
Planet (2007).
The Sun, Stupid--The mighty sun is in charge
of what happens on puny Earth (2007).
Green Goodies (2007).
Warming Without SUVs On Neptune (2007).
The Many Myths of Ethanol (2007).
Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Update, SEMA eNews (2007).
Hot Air, Cold Cash: Who are the Merchants
of Fear? (2007).
Why some experts want higher gas tax (2007).
Surprise: Ethanol as Deadly as Gasoline
For Now (2007).
An Inconvenient Truth... or Convenient
Fiction? (2007).
The Global Warming Industrial Complex (2007).
Robert E. Petersen, Founder of Hot Rod,
Motor Trend Magazines and Benefactor of the Petersen Automotive Museum Passes
On at 80 (2007).
Green Fuel for Yellow Buses; Program Pushes
Biodiesel Fuel (2007).
Limousine Liberal Hypocrisy (2007).
State Makes Big Fuss Over Local Couple's
Vegetable Oil Car Fuel--Told To Pay Taxes on Fuel or Else (2007).
Fire danger fuels "trees-for-fuel"
plans--biomass/hog fuel (2007).
The Real 'Inconvenient Truth' - Greenhouse, global warming and
some facts (2007).
From Food to Fuel (2006).
300 Million and the Environment (2006).
Flex-fuel Fans Beware (2006).
US rules on big brother black boxes for
automobiles (2006).
Frankenstein Fuels (2006).
Scientists: Global Warming is Real but
This Isn't It (2006).
U.S. outdoes Canada in cutting toxic pollution
(2006).
Why Liberals Fear Global Warming More The
Conservatives Do (2006).
Building additional refineries won't lower
fuel costs (2006).
From moonshine to cheap gas: Home stills used
for additives (2006).
Beware the big green political monster--the
environmental damage caused by leftist greenies (2006).
Crunching the Numbers on Alternative Fuels:
how far can you drive on a bushel of corn? (2006).
Hemp For Fuel (2006).
Cheaper Fuel Cells (2006).
Cheap Hydrogen Fuel (2006).
The Ultimate Economy Ride (2006).
Practical Fuel-Cell Vehicles: Hybrid vehicles...
are lifting the prospects of fuel cells (2006).
Biofuels get mixed review--Ethanol does
well on efficiency, but only so-so for the environment (2006).
Does Deep Earth Host Untapped Fuel? (2006)
Europe biofuel plans under fire [Environmentalists
claim biofuel is bad for the environment] (2006).
Worse Than Fossil Fuel (2006).
Climate of Fear: Global-warming alarmists
intimidate dissenting scientists into silence (2006).
Michael Crichton before the US Senate Committee
on Environment and Public Works (2005).
Researchers Convert Chicken Fat to Fuel
(2005).
Ugh, Wilderness! The horror of “ANWR,”
the American elite’s favorite hellhole (2005).
The Great Global Warming Swindle Videos
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