Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

It's a concept that with a little bit of tailoring might possibly work. The issue becomes can you design a chassis with a variable engine/trans mounting that would allow different drive trains? My thinking here is that SCCA has a class that is a pre-built frame with a replica Cobra body and the enti...

#1 - We have a tube frame, aftermarket bodied Corvette roadster. Similar to a Suncoast car but this one was built up around the Ohio area. It is a ladder bar car and the adjustment range is almost non-existent. We have two front mount adjustment holes. We do not have any "adjustable span" ...

I have always wondered why people pay so much attention to the spark plugs to start with - that's at a minimum the second gap that the electrical energy has to jump. The gap between the rotor and cap (conventional ignition) seems to me a place where some minor gains could be made. If you take a spar...

We have a 2000 pound Monza, 2x3, ladder bar. Our problem was very similar except it was going to the right pretty hard on launch. What we did was "string" the car. We found that we were a touch long on one side by almost a quarter inch. Corrected that and the launches have been straight si...