Electrical

A few months ago we needed to free up some ponies in the Duramax diesel engine of our ’05 Chevy Silverado. We accomplished this by installing the Corsa diesel performance exhaust system, as well as the Advanced Flow Engineering (AFE) performance intake and air filter system-both designed to help the truck breathe easier. The results were impressive to say the …

Style: Cockpit Royale Information, it’s what we all crave, but the information must be accurate. If you have lifted your 4wd vehicle, added larger tires, or changed your differential gears then you know that the information that your stock speedometer is providing you is not accurate. VDO has now found a permanent cure for your inaccurate speedometer. Meet the VDO …

If I’ve said it once, I’ve screamed it a hundred times – I love easy! Easy is good, and adding gobs of power to diesel trucks is getting easier and easier. But sometimes, ‘easy’ just ain’t enough, and Hypertech didn’t stop with just easy either, nor did they rest on their laurels. In today’s dog-eat-dog world of making more and …

Innovate Motorsports’ RAD (Rollover Avoidance Device) inclinometer system is a new twist on an old concept – keeping your rig’s roof pointing up and the tires pointing down, not vice versa. Inclinometers though, have been around as long as I can remember, and they get their roots from the aviation industry. They are bloody simple by design… some floating, weighted …

For those of us that have made engine modifications, particularly larger-engine transplants, overheating is a common problem. There are a number of cures for this, but in the end, there are only a few things in your cooling system that will make a big difference – your radiator, your fan / shroud combo and your water pump. Any other change …

Men hate asking for directions almost as much as we hate a visit to the dentist or nails on a chalk board. Asking for directions falls somewhere between visits from our mother-in-law and getting kicked in the… well, you know. It isn’t our fault, though. The gene for asking for directions disappeared long ago. Early nomadic tribes weren’t wandering the …

Our old plug wires had burnt through their protective sheilding in just 5 hours of usage. It’s a deplorable action, a sin amongst sins, an outrageous, awful, appalling act of omission. You take the time to put two coats of wax on your rig, you spend the extra $18 on the really good engine oil, you may even go as far …

It happens to all of us, we see a great new product, know that we need it, only to find out that the company doesn’t make it for our application! Well this has been the case with the new line of MSD Pro-Billet Distributors for a few years now. Our project Jeep has always run a stock, auto-parts store, el-cheapo …

  Competition is a great thing – really. Whether it’s two competitors dukeing it out on a rock course, or more than one manufacturer making a similar product – competition drives the opposing forces to do or make something better, faster, stronger or even less expensive– which of course is a great thing for the consumer. This brings us to …

I’ll admit it, I’m a gadget guy. If it beeps, blinks, flashes, or performs some useful task that I may or may not use, I want it. When the boss-man and I began discussing our annual trek to Moab, which included a long road trip through the desolate southwestern deserts, we decided this would be the perfect time and place …