Car Craft - 2001

Car Craft - 2001

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February
Cover Section - Real World Supercars - Driving The Boss (A reader actually let us borrow one of the world's greatest musclecars for a weekend test and tune), Readers' Rides (We cleared out the files for this Readers' Rides blowout - now it's time for you to send in new ones), Win Your Car In Car Craft (Fill out the entry forms - we'll let readers voteon whether they want to see a full-color feature on your car in a future issue) Tech - The Tunnel Ram Lives! (High-rise Dual Quads beat a Dominator and made an evil 666.6 hp on a Mopar 440), Turbos: Not Just For Diesels Anymore (Marlan explains how a hair dryer works), Pontiac 326-to-455 Swap (It's all in the details), Olds 455 Update (The big Olds is back by popular demand, this time with an Edelbrock Torker manifold), How To Rebuild A T5 (The most common performance manual trans of the '80s and '90s, Borg-Warner's T5 is a snap to rebuild if you've got a couple hours of free time), Deragstrip Traction Test (Good news: We installed new PSC Traction bars on our '86 Mustang. Better news: We finally hit the track with it), The Versatile Oxy-Acetylene Torch (The most dangerous man in the world is a car crafter with his torch), True Tales From The Real World (Reader Ron Ayers shares how he swapped rear disc brakes onto his '69 Nova) Features - 5 Best New Products Of 2001 (We cruised the aisles of the SEMA show in Vegas so you wouldn't have to), The Pacific Street Car Association (It's grassroots street-car racing West-Coast style), Artic Blast (You can blame Canada for Jon Goertzen's '79 Mailbu), JC Whitney: 1975 vs. 2000 (The more things change, the more they stay the same) Departments - Point of View, Reader's Pages, Straight Scoop, We Try It, Speed Shop, Ask Marlan, Coming Next Month
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March
Cover Section - Everything You Never Knew About The Small-Block Chevy - Think You Know It All? (These things have changed more over the years than a Florida vote count); The New Ram Jets (The latest small-blocks are ready for the 21st Century) Tech - Clutch Linkage R & R (It costs about 20 bucks, so just do it!); Carb-Spacer Shootout (Do these things really work?); Torque Plates: Do You Need 'Em? (A burning question if there ever was one); Header Dyno Test (We made an honest 20 hp at the wheels without even spraying nitrous into the air cleaner); How To Install A Rollcage (A few snips here, a few tweaks there, and it fits like a glove); Drag-Test Your Car At Home (The accuracy of Mr. Gasket's Desktop Dyno is scary); HeliCoil Thread Repair (Perfect for getting your butt out of a sling) Features - '81 Chevy Malibu (It's a brutal stawag with an attitude); '65 Mustang (A corner-carving ragtop with style); Radio-Delete (Yet another cool Max Wedge clone); '68 Chevy Impala (Wanna see what a $5,000 interior looks like?) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; Project Car Update; Speed Shop; Ask Marlan; Coming Next Month
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May
Cover Section - Bang For The Buck! Best Buys Under $500 - Two-Barrel To Four-Barrel Intake Swap (So basic, yet so effective); Easy HEI Upgrade (Tune up your tired HEI with Pertronix's easy-to-install kit); Swap Cam, Gain 77 HP (It's still the bang-for-the-buck king); Clutch & Shifter Upgrade (We missed the target price by a buck eighty-five, so sue us); Carb & Intake Swap II (How much better is an aftermarket carb and intake than stock? A lot); Gear Swap (Did swapping from 3.27s to 4.10s finally put our project Mustang in the 12s?) Special Section - Restoration How-Tos - How To Install A Headliner (It's a tough one, but worth it); How To Re-Cover Seats (Let's hope these are just springs poking you in the butt); Easy Rust Repair (Without breaking out the torch and welder); How To R & R Stainless Trim (Dinged-Up trim looks really bad, but it's easy to fix); How To Restore Power Windows (Hopefully yours aren't stuck half-open) Tech - Theft Prevention Tips & Tricks (Oh, the pain we could have saved if we'd followed our own advice); EFI: Mass-Air vs. Speed-Density (Marlan answers the burning question that's been keeping us awake at night); Blue Thunder 460 (You can buy one in any junkyard for pocket change and it'll run with a big Chevy any day of the week) Features - Cheap Street Returns! (Can you believe some lowlife was actually caught driving our big, yellow Chevelle?); Hatchback Smack-Down (A Mustang II in a car magazine? You betcha); The Great Drivetrain Swap (We invited a bunch of gearheads over for steaks and a little wrenching); Student Driver (Novas - the more we see 'em, the more we like 'em); Another '69 Camaro (But at least it's a really nice one) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; Speed Shop; Ask Marlan; Coming Next Month
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July
Cover Section - Small-Block Power - Dual-Quad Ford 302 (Nostalgic speed parts look cool, but do they actually perform?); 401ci Chevy Stroker (Here's a new one on us: a 350 block stroked to over 400 cubes); Mopar 360 Six Pack (Strokes worship the tri-carb setup - maybe for good reasons); 450-Horse TPI 350 (Whether or not your car came with fuel injection, this killer EFI package from TPIS will work) Tech - Polishing The Fire-Turd (Nitrous turned our 16-second Pontiac into a mid-14-second car, but at least it's faster than a Honda); Quick-Drain Oil Plug (Change your oil without even getting your hands dirty); Mustang Cold-Air Induction (We tested a ram-air-style system against a cowl hood with interesting results); Bis-Corner Carver (OK, so our '65 Biscayne isn't really a canyon carver, but it sure does drive well with a new polyurethane frontend); Desktop Dyno (We're not quite as accurate as Mr. Gasket's dragstrip simulation, but it's still fun to play with); How To Rebuild A GM Steering Column (Fixing the broken column in our Chevelle wasn't hard with help from Year One) Features - Pick A Winner (Here's you chance to vote for the Your Car in Car Craft contest winner); Free Car Craft Summer Nationals Poster (Tack in on you garage wall so you don't forget to go this year); Inside An NHRA Funny Car Team (What's it really take to make these cars run? We got the inside scoop from Team CSK); Orange Juice Coupe (If our Mustang ever got within two seconds of this brutal NMCA car, we'd do backflips) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; We Try It; Speed Shop; Ask Marlan; Coming Next Month
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September
Cover Section - Carbs: How Big Is Too Big? - How Big Is Too Big? (Barry Grant explains why bigger isn't always better); How To Rebuild A Holley (Possibly the most basic tech a car crafter needs to know); Quadrajet (A much-maligned Rochester gets a much-needed facelift); Neat New Carb Parts (Some very new stuff, some kinda new stuff, but all really good stuff) Tech - Rat Attack: 542hp Big-Block Chevy (So far it's top dog in our big-block build-up series); Carbon-Fiber How-To (It's not just for rocket scientists anymore); Tall Spindle Upgrade For GM A/G Bodies (How to improve your braking and handling with parts from Hotchkis and the junkyard); Edelbrock's New "Vortec" Heads (GM's iron heads were good, but aluminum is better); Quick Discs (Here's a disc brake conversion kit you can bolt on in your sleep); Zex Is For Nitrous (And nitrous makes Henry D's Mustang happy) Features - Fueling The NMCA (It's an insider's look at drag race fuel systems); Forgotten Fairlane (This restoration was a bodyman's holiday); Our Power Tour Fiasco (Read about what a huge debacle we had on Hot Rod's field trip); Ford Fun In The Buckeye State (The National Mustang Racers Association has taken off like wildfire, and we finally get a chance to find out why) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; Project Car Update; Speed Shop; Ask Marlan; Coming Next Month
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December
Cover Section - Fast And More Furious; The Real World Of Street Racing - Harsh Reality (As usual, fact is grittier than fiction); Street Car Chaos (A cool event that's taking racers off Chicago's streets); The Flint Scene (A report from Michigan's street racing trenches) Tech - G-Rated (Our Malibu pulls g's with the best of 'em thanks to Hotchkis); How To CC Cylinder Heads (So basic, so useful, so easy); History Of The Buick Nailhead (Long forgotten: these torquey monsters once ruled the dragstrips); How To Build A Rearend (Gears, axles, diffs. We help sort out the bewildering options); Lighter-Straighter-Faster? (Will curing some basic suspension ails help our Mustang at the track?); How To Install Trans And Oil Coolers (Ensure drivetrain longevity with this simple insurance) Features - SAM Malibu (Street racing meets drag racing in the NMCA); Car Craft Road Trip! (We hit a little trouble on our way to Reno); Cruising Woodward (More street car mayhem from Michigan); Midwest Blower Fest (The 25th Anniversary Street Machine Nationals proved that the more things change, the more they stay the same); EFI Ranchero (The third time was the charm for this early bird); Tools Under $100 (Start making your list today) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; Speed Shop; Ask Marlan; Coming Next Month
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ISSUE	CONTENTS	QTY.	PRICE	PAYPAL
February	Cover Section - Real World Supercars - Driving The Boss (A reader actually let us borrow one of the world's greatest musclecars for a weekend test and tune), Readers' Rides (We cleared out the files for this Readers' Rides blowout - now it's time for you to send in new ones), Win Your Car In Car Craft (Fill out the entry forms - we'll let readers voteon whether they want to see a full-color feature on your car in a future issue) Tech - The Tunnel Ram Lives! (High-rise Dual Quads beat a Dominator and made an evil 666.6 hp on a Mopar 440), Turbos: Not Just For Diesels Anymore (Marlan explains how a hair dryer works), Pontiac 326-to-455 Swap (It's all in the details), Olds 455 Update (The big Olds is back by popular demand, this time with an Edelbrock Torker manifold), How To Rebuild A T5 (The most common performance manual trans of the '80s and '90s, Borg-Warner's T5 is a snap to rebuild if you've got a couple hours of free time), Deragstrip Traction Test (Good news: We installed new PSC Traction bars on our '86 Mustang. Better news: We finally hit the track with it), The Versatile Oxy-Acetylene Torch (The most dangerous man in the world is a car crafter with his torch), True Tales From The Real World (Reader Ron Ayers shares how he swapped rear disc brakes onto his '69 Nova) Features - 5 Best New Products Of 2001 (We cruised the aisles of the SEMA show in Vegas so you wouldn't have to), The Pacific Street Car Association (It's grassroots street-car racing West-Coast style), Artic Blast (You can blame Canada for Jon Goertzen's '79 Mailbu), JC Whitney: 1975 vs. 2000 (The more things change, the more they stay the same) Departments - Point of View, Reader's Pages, Straight Scoop, We Try It, Speed Shop, Ask Marlan, Coming Next Month	1	$5.00
March	Cover Section - Everything You Never Knew About The Small-Block Chevy - Think You Know It All? (These things have changed more over the years than a Florida vote count); The New Ram Jets (The latest small-blocks are ready for the 21st Century) Tech - Clutch Linkage R & R (It costs about 20 bucks, so just do it!); Carb-Spacer Shootout (Do these things really work?); Torque Plates: Do You Need 'Em? (A burning question if there ever was one); Header Dyno Test (We made an honest 20 hp at the wheels without even spraying nitrous into the air cleaner); How To Install A Rollcage (A few snips here, a few tweaks there, and it fits like a glove); Drag-Test Your Car At Home (The accuracy of Mr. Gasket's Desktop Dyno is scary); HeliCoil Thread Repair (Perfect for getting your butt out of a sling) Features - '81 Chevy Malibu (It's a brutal stawag with an attitude); '65 Mustang (A corner-carving ragtop with style); Radio-Delete (Yet another cool Max Wedge clone); '68 Chevy Impala (Wanna see what a $5,000 interior looks like?) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; Project Car Update; Speed Shop; Ask Marlan; Coming Next Month	1	$5.00
May	Cover Section - Bang For The Buck! Best Buys Under $500 - Two-Barrel To Four-Barrel Intake Swap (So basic, yet so effective); Easy HEI Upgrade (Tune up your tired HEI with Pertronix's easy-to-install kit); Swap Cam, Gain 77 HP (It's still the bang-for-the-buck king); Clutch & Shifter Upgrade (We missed the target price by a buck eighty-five, so sue us); Carb & Intake Swap II (How much better is an aftermarket carb and intake than stock? A lot); Gear Swap (Did swapping from 3.27s to 4.10s finally put our project Mustang in the 12s?) Special Section - Restoration How-Tos - How To Install A Headliner (It's a tough one, but worth it); How To Re-Cover Seats (Let's hope these are just springs poking you in the butt); Easy Rust Repair (Without breaking out the torch and welder); How To R & R Stainless Trim (Dinged-Up trim looks really bad, but it's easy to fix); How To Restore Power Windows (Hopefully yours aren't stuck half-open) Tech - Theft Prevention Tips & Tricks (Oh, the pain we could have saved if we'd followed our own advice); EFI: Mass-Air vs. Speed-Density (Marlan answers the burning question that's been keeping us awake at night); Blue Thunder 460 (You can buy one in any junkyard for pocket change and it'll run with a big Chevy any day of the week) Features - Cheap Street Returns! (Can you believe some lowlife was actually caught driving our big, yellow Chevelle?); Hatchback Smack-Down (A Mustang II in a car magazine? You betcha); The Great Drivetrain Swap (We invited a bunch of gearheads over for steaks and a little wrenching); Student Driver (Novas - the more we see 'em, the more we like 'em); Another '69 Camaro (But at least it's a really nice one) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; Speed Shop; Ask Marlan; Coming Next Month	1	$5.00
July	Cover Section - Small-Block Power - Dual-Quad Ford 302 (Nostalgic speed parts look cool, but do they actually perform?); 401ci Chevy Stroker (Here's a new one on us: a 350 block stroked to over 400 cubes); Mopar 360 Six Pack (Strokes worship the tri-carb setup - maybe for good reasons); 450-Horse TPI 350 (Whether or not your car came with fuel injection, this killer EFI package from TPIS will work) Tech - Polishing The Fire-Turd (Nitrous turned our 16-second Pontiac into a mid-14-second car, but at least it's faster than a Honda); Quick-Drain Oil Plug (Change your oil without even getting your hands dirty); Mustang Cold-Air Induction (We tested a ram-air-style system against a cowl hood with interesting results); Bis-Corner Carver (OK, so our '65 Biscayne isn't really a canyon carver, but it sure does drive well with a new polyurethane frontend); Desktop Dyno (We're not quite as accurate as Mr. Gasket's dragstrip simulation, but it's still fun to play with); How To Rebuild A GM Steering Column (Fixing the broken column in our Chevelle wasn't hard with help from Year One) Features - Pick A Winner (Here's you chance to vote for the Your Car in Car Craft contest winner); Free Car Craft Summer Nationals Poster (Tack in on you garage wall so you don't forget to go this year); Inside An NHRA Funny Car Team (What's it really take to make these cars run? We got the inside scoop from Team CSK); Orange Juice Coupe (If our Mustang ever got within two seconds of this brutal NMCA car, we'd do backflips) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; We Try It; Speed Shop; Ask Marlan; Coming Next Month	1	$5.00
September	Cover Section - Carbs: How Big Is Too Big? - How Big Is Too Big? (Barry Grant explains why bigger isn't always better); How To Rebuild A Holley (Possibly the most basic tech a car crafter needs to know); Quadrajet (A much-maligned Rochester gets a much-needed facelift); Neat New Carb Parts (Some very new stuff, some kinda new stuff, but all really good stuff) Tech - Rat Attack: 542hp Big-Block Chevy (So far it's top dog in our big-block build-up series); Carbon-Fiber How-To (It's not just for rocket scientists anymore); Tall Spindle Upgrade For GM A/G Bodies (How to improve your braking and handling with parts from Hotchkis and the junkyard); Edelbrock's New "Vortec" Heads (GM's iron heads were good, but aluminum is better); Quick Discs (Here's a disc brake conversion kit you can bolt on in your sleep); Zex Is For Nitrous (And nitrous makes Henry D's Mustang happy) Features - Fueling The NMCA (It's an insider's look at drag race fuel systems); Forgotten Fairlane (This restoration was a bodyman's holiday); Our Power Tour Fiasco (Read about what a huge debacle we had on Hot Rod's field trip); Ford Fun In The Buckeye State (The National Mustang Racers Association has taken off like wildfire, and we finally get a chance to find out why) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; Project Car Update; Speed Shop; Ask Marlan; Coming Next Month	1	$5.00
December	Cover Section - Fast And More Furious; The Real World Of Street Racing - Harsh Reality (As usual, fact is grittier than fiction); Street Car Chaos (A cool event that's taking racers off Chicago's streets); The Flint Scene (A report from Michigan's street racing trenches) Tech - G-Rated (Our Malibu pulls g's with the best of 'em thanks to Hotchkis); How To CC Cylinder Heads (So basic, so useful, so easy); History Of The Buick Nailhead (Long forgotten: these torquey monsters once ruled the dragstrips); How To Build A Rearend (Gears, axles, diffs. We help sort out the bewildering options); Lighter-Straighter-Faster? (Will curing some basic suspension ails help our Mustang at the track?); How To Install Trans And Oil Coolers (Ensure drivetrain longevity with this simple insurance) Features - SAM Malibu (Street racing meets drag racing in the NMCA); Car Craft Road Trip! (We hit a little trouble on our way to Reno); Cruising Woodward (More street car mayhem from Michigan); Midwest Blower Fest (The 25th Anniversary Street Machine Nationals proved that the more things change, the more they stay the same); EFI Ranchero (The third time was the charm for this early bird); Tools Under $100 (Start making your list today) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; Speed Shop; Ask Marlan; Coming Next Month	1	$5.00