After a brief hiatus, we've turned our attention back to Project Grandma with the installation of new spindles and steering arms from TRZ Motorsports and brakes from Aerospace Components for a return to the street after a tour of duty on the strip.
After a brief hiatus, we've turned our attention back to Project Grandma with the installation of new spindles and steering arms from TRZ Motorsports and brakes from Aerospace Components for a return to the street after a tour of duty on the strip.
After more than a year of construction, Project Grandma was finally ready for her shakedown runs! With the car strapped down on the trailer, we made the trip up to Fontana, CA for the 2009 LA Invasion Car Show and Drag Racing.
Wiring is usually the last thing an enthusiast thinks about when building a new race car. And - it usually shows. Bundles of unlabeled wires, shorts, difficulty starting, and electrical gremlins usually show up when the car debuts, or soon after.
Check out a few highlights from our upcoming tech article on installing a Spaghetti Menders wiring kit in our 1979 Malibu.
Project Grandma receives a new exhaust system, with Flowmaster mufflers, with everything coated using a Techline coating by Olympic Coatings.
For our Project Grandma, we needed to add a nice set of restraints and a parachute to make sure our driver - and our car - make it back to the pits in one piece. We sourced famous safety-supplier Simpson to supply some of the safety gear for our car.
You sit in the stands, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the next pair of performance monsters to line up at the tree. Burnt rubber and high octane racing fuel permeate the air at the drag strip, as the two cars produce billowing clouds of white smoke that only seconds before …
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