Ever since picking up my 2011 BMW 128i back in March, I’ve had incremental performance upgrades on the brain. Planning out what’s next has been daunting at times because I’m not used to owning a car ...

Working with brakes can be scary. They're the reason your car is able to stop, after all, so if you mess up, you could put you and the people around you in a dangerous situation. Thankfully, brakes ...

While converting from drums to disc brakes on the front of many older cars is a sensible upgrade, irrespective of performance gains, we opted to install discs on the rear of our project wagon too. Not ...

A burnout is pretty easy to do, but it's a lot easier with a line-lock. A line-lock allows you to lock the front brakes independently of the rear brakes, so the car stays put while the tires smolder.

Last month we ditched our Coyote coupe's factory brakes in favor of Wilwood Engineering's Superlite brake kit. We've now increased our braking capacity from a single-piston design to a monstrous ...

The engine on our Factory Five Racing Cobra replica has been wired and running for three months. Due to chassis wiring and other unfinished items, however, we felt no pressure to have our project ...

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