Chevy High Performance How To Articles

File Fitting Pistons - Step By Step

File-Fitting Pistons for Max Performance more

The No-Spin Zone

You're Staged. Your engine's rpm climbs. The Christmas Tree begins to flash. In the wink of an eye your tires plant hard... more

The Super Seven

The Super Seven more

Double Play

One example of the way things used to be is the dual-quad carburetor setup. Theoretically, it makes sense... more

Straight Up & Down

Up and down they go. Year after year, the regulators continue to position your door glass exactly where it should be... more

Bidding for Power

The Internet age has zapped the automotive performance and restoration world with classified ads and information... more

Setting Ignition Timing Curves

Having a car with outrageous low-end throttle response and top-end horsepower is something every gearhead strives for. The correct combination of parts will get you close, but it’s the tune-up that truly makes the difference. This month we are taking a lo more

Budget How-Tos

Hey—hot rodding isn’t easy, and it certainly isn’t cheap. more

Iron Vortec Head

We’ve been getting a ton of mail with questions about how and when to modify the Vortec small-block iron heads—so much mail that we decided to condense all the Vortec information into one concise story that should answer almost any question you have more

Four-Speed Hurst Shifter Install

Imagine watching a stoplight turn green and dropping the clutch to pull ahead of the car next to you. As the revs climb, you depress the clutch and grab Second gear. The shifter feels sloppy, and you find yourself searching for a gear—any gear. It’s more

Engine Elegance

There's nothing nicer than a well-detailed engine compartment. With today's variety of aftermarket pieces and a little ingenuity, anyone can transform his engine bay into an inspiring work of functioning automotive art. Because the Chevy High Performance staff more

Take It In

Making lots of horsepower requires an engine that inhales large amounts of air. The smart move for more power includes an intake manifold matched to the engine’s performance characteristics. But before the manifold can provide that power, it must be insta more

Dialing It In

A properly tuned engine and suspension are key to keeping your Chevy running hard. Monitoring that performance requires a constant and accurate stream of information. Gauges that monitor oil pressure, water temperature, voltage, and engine rpm tell the driver more

The Big Chill

High-performance cars and horsepower are hot—especially under the hood. Hot rodders know that an internal combustion engine heats things up by combining fuel, compression, and ignition to create horsepower. But there’s a fine line between heat that g more

The Too Fat Follies

Where did the notion come from that adding more fuel to an engine makes more horsepower? It’s one of those automotive myths that clings to life even in the new millennium. It seems just about every hot street car on the planet runs too rich and could use more

The Borla Shuffle

Chances are if you’re anywhere on the East Coast or even in the Midwest, you probably have more time on your hands during the winter weekends than you know what to do with. And since Jack Frost has been around for a while, we bet your project cruiser is s more

For Your Information

Performance car enthusiasts crave engine information. Oil pressure, voltage, and engine-temperature gauges not only tell the driver how well everything works, but also how the engine performs under grueling conditions. Unfortunately, many musclecars came o more

Coiled And Ready

If you turn enough wrenches on old cars, chances are you’ll break a bolt or two. Breaking a bolt is a rite of passage in the automotive world, and it’s something every automotive enthusiast eventually has to face. You have tested the strength of meta more

The Sub Way

Perhaps the most sought-after car in the Chevy musclecar lineup is the early Camaro. While this model is extremely popular, as a performance platform it leaves much to be desired. The problems start when you add extra power. All that newfound torque tries to t more

Balancing Act

You have just yanked the motor out of the engine bay, and it’s ready for a rebuild. As you begin to disassemble the front accessories, you realize that the timing cover isn’t going to come off until that circular-looking weight on the crankshaft is r more

Staying Connected

To any hot rodder, a hard-running small-block with deep rearend gears blasting through the quarter-mile at over 7,000 rpm sounds great. But driving that same hot cruiser down the freeway at anything over 3,000 rpm gets old fast. To be able to blast low e.t.'s more

It’s a Spring Thing

Greg Smith had a problem. His ’55 had come up lame, and he wasn’t sure what it was. “It just lays down at the top of First gear,” he said. The ’55 used to be a stab-it-and-steer-it 12-second car with its 355ci small-block, Turbo 400 tr more

Sound Advice

Running in the Los Angeles Marathon requires endurance, proper training, the will to finish—and most of all, the ability to breathe. As fundamental as that may sound, a high-performance engine makes similar demands. Since an engine is simply an air pump, more

Win a 502 Crate Engine!

We're offering readers the chance to win this incredible crate motor from GM Performance Parts. The Deluxe ZZ502/502 engine delivers 502hp and 567 lb-ft of torque in standard form. But we're giving the engine our special Chevy High Performance trea more

In the Clutch

The clutch comes out, and the Camaro launches hard. The tach hits 6,000 rpm and you stab the clutch pedal, yank on the shifter, and slam the trans into Second gear. Again the motor climbs to 6,000 rpm and you press on the clutch and bang the shifter into what more