-Intro by Bob Freudenberger
When I was a boy, two of my favorite magazines were HOT ROD and Car Craft. Of course, with the wherewithal of a typical farm kid, all I could do was dream about the cars I’d like to build (not own -- there’s a difference),...
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Unlocking the Mysteries Behind Gasoline and Diesel Piezoelectric Injectors I recently read David McCullough’s book The Wright Brothers about their work as pioneers of aviation. One interesting fact was that they built their own engines, and the very first engine they...
A look at how Mercedes-AMG engineers increase efficiency in a large power plant, including CAMTRONIC While you may service a number of Mercedes-Benz vehicles in your shop, the most highly engineered models are from the Mercedes-AMG division. The AMG badge on certain...
Yep, “the older I get the faster I was”. It’s good to look back, but wages were equally low and hot rodding was, as today, always expensive! When you made a dollar an hour those $60.00 headers were far away savings plan. I remember a Sixty Eight Camaro with $3000 in the engine! Holy Smoke! Your house cost $12,000 , but as today you could buy 3 gallons of gas for your hourly wage. Gasoline is still the greatest fun you can obtain cheaply (and legally). luckyuhaul
Unlocking the Mysteries Behind Gasoline and Diesel Piezoelectric Injectors I recently read David McCullough’s book The Wright Brothers about their work as pioneers of aviation. One interesting fact was that they built their own engines, and the very first engine they...
A look at how Mercedes-AMG engineers increase efficiency in a large power plant, including CAMTRONIC While you may service a number of Mercedes-Benz vehicles in your shop, the most highly engineered models are from the Mercedes-AMG division. The AMG badge on certain...
We can get lost very quickly if we are not savvy to the fact that the engine is the actual modulator for the computer controlling it. Wow. Sometimes in the world of diagnostics, we run into some extremely hard to solve technical problems. Most of the time these days,...
Yep, “the older I get the faster I was”. It’s good to look back, but wages were equally low and hot rodding was, as today, always expensive! When you made a dollar an hour those $60.00 headers were far away savings plan. I remember a Sixty Eight Camaro with $3000 in the engine! Holy Smoke! Your house cost $12,000 , but as today you could buy 3 gallons of gas for your hourly wage. Gasoline is still the greatest fun you can obtain cheaply (and legally). luckyuhaul
Yep, “the older I get the faster I was”. It’s good to look back, but wages were equally low and hot rodding was, as today, always expensive! When you made a dollar an hour those $60.00 headers were far away savings plan. I remember a Sixty Eight Camaro with $3000 in the engine! Holy Smoke! Your house cost $12,000 , but as today you could buy 3 gallons of gas for your hourly wage. Gasoline is still the greatest fun you can obtain cheaply (and legally). luckyuhaul