Car Craft - 2003

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February
Cover Section: Musclecar Makeovers - 10 Great Ways To Refresh Your Ride (Does your street machine look or feel dated? Here are some ideas for putting a new bounce in its step) Tech - Nitrous: Fuel For The Greedy (700 hp with one bolt-on); The Ultimate Chevelle (Cheap Street Chevelle's transformation begins with the installation of a trick NASCAR-inspired rear suspension); Mopar Trans Guide (Our three-part automatic-trans series wraps up with the Mopar offerings); Diagnose A Used Engine (Running or not, a few simple tests can sort the wheat from the chaffe); 8-Second Crate Motor (Calling all Mustang magazines: Your project car against ours - heads up, anywhere, anytime); Engine-Building Lessons (Learn from the experts (or at least guys who think they're experts) what to do and not do); Trick Rear Control Arms (Currie Enterprises invents a better mousetrap for factory four-link cars) Features - 10-Year Itch (The Nova on our cover was built to drive); Blast From The Past (Straight from the archives, this vintage profile of racing legend Don Garlits highlights the birth of his career); Street Machine Nationals, Missouri (Our last big show of the season was a rockin' dyno-fest); Radial Flyers (The Traction Advantage class attracts some of the fastest drag-radial cars anywhere); 5.0L Mustangs: The Next '69 Camaro (Just as popular, and probably just as cliched, as the original over-exposed musclecar for all the right reasons - they're available, cheap and cool); Magazine Project Car Grudge Match (Bench racing and jaw-jacking turns into real-world action as magazine staffers go head-to-head at the track); Not Dad's (This Olds 442 is resto on the outside, radical on the inside) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; Heads Up News; Speed Shop; What's Your Problem?; Coming Next Month
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March
Cover Section - Big-Block vs. Small-Block; Hardcore Crate Engine Shootout (It's a battle of behemoths as we flog a 427ci small-block and a 509ci big-block in our SuperNova); 10 Great Crates (A selection of the finest mail-order powerplants available) Tech - Exhaust Diagnosis (Does your exhaust system have too much backpressure? Find out with this neat gizmo); GM Powertrain Developments (Wanna see what the General has in store for V-8 power? We've got the lowdown on the best new stuff); Oiling System Basics (Tips on ensuring the health and safety of your engine); Unlimited Jets (With Carb Solutions' Jet Block you'll never spill fuel again); Trick Turbo 400 (How to build a bulletproof automatic - and don't think they're just for Chevys either) Special Section - Suspension And Handling -The Ultimate Chevelle: Front Suspension (Cheap Street Chevelle's transformation continues); Understanding Springs And Ride Quality (Learn how and why a drag car's suspension demands differ from a handling car or a cruiser) Features - Mach Speed (One of the prettiest drag cars we've seen in a long time); Patriotic Readers' Rides (A salute to car crafters in the service of our country); Real Street Eliminator Returns (Five awesome street machines battle it out for top honors on the street and strip); Blast From The Past (A look back at our first road test of the now legendary '65 Pontiac GTO); Top 20 New Products Of The Year (The staff's top 20 picks from the '02 SEMA show) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Page; Straight Scoop; Heads Up News; Speed Shop; What's Your Problem?; Coming Next Month
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April
Cover Section: Paint Your Car At Home - All-American Assault (Dave Paney's '70 AAR 'Cuda is proof that a show-winning resto car can be done at home); Paint Your Car At Home (A guide to restoring your car from the ground up) Tech - Tunnel-Ram vs. Single-Quad (We answer the gnawing question); What's A Merge Collector? (Hint: it's worth about 10 to 20 hp); How To Build Your Own Headers ("Tales from the real world" returns); A Day At The Dyno (A primer on getting your car chassis dyno'd); Ultimate Chevelle Rearend (Currie helps us sort out the options for our Cheap Street Chevelle); 20hp GM LT1 Bolt-On Test (The Malibu project gets some extra bang for a few bucks) Features - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (A brutal wheel-standing wagon); 10 Great Road Trips (Start planning your summer vacation now!); First Love (A young man's love affair with his first Chevelle); Stupidest Gearhead Stories Yet (Some people are just morons, but at least they admit it); Blast From The Past (Car Craft's most elaborate cover shoot ever); Family Affair (Who builds a '73 Chevelle?) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Page; Straight Scoop; Heads Up News; Speed Shop; What's Your Problem?; Coming Next Month
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June
Cover Stories And Features - Moby Dick (The "forgotten" '73-'77 Chevelles are really starting to grow on us); 50 Tips Under 50 Bucks (Tips and tricks aplenty, all costing less than half a C-note); Street-Legal Street Racing (If nobody gets in trouble, is it actually illegal?); How To Buy Your First Street Machine (Advice on how to avoid getting burned on your first project car, plus our staff's picks for the top bargains in affordable project fodder); Dumb Luck (We found this month's cover car at our local alignment shop); Sibling Rivalry (Two brothers from Arizona duke it out with a pair of Mustangs) Tech - Sway Away! (Trick new suspension from Hotchkis turns our '65 Biscayne into a corner carver); Late-Model EFI {erfpr,amce Seroes: Ford's 5.0L H.O. (Part two of our ongoing series hits the highlights on hopping up Ford's venerable five-oh powerplant); Top 20 Carburetor Questions Answered (We polled the experts at Holley, Demon and Edelbrock for responses to our most probing induction queries); Junker To Thumper: Pontiac 455 (We took a big Pontiac fresh from the scrap yard and bolted on 200 hp with a cam, intake, and cylinder heads. Oh yeah!); 50hp 5.0L Mustang Head Swap (Out of the box, Trick Flow's Twisted Wedge heads were good for 50 ponies - at the rear wheels. That's bang for the buck) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; Heads Up News; Speed Shop; What's Your Problem?; Coming Next Month
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July
Cover Stories - Show And Go (Bruce Hensen's '70 Chevy Nova is among the best of the new breed of Pro Street); The New Look Of Pro Street (Despite greatly exaggerated reports of its death, the Pro Street movement proves to be alive and better than ever); Mach 1 vs Cobra: We Drive The Best New Mustangs (Ford launches the shock and awe phases of its performance campaign with arguably the best two Mustangs ever built); Cr Craft Cribs (Readers prove a gearhead's home is where the car is); NMCA/NSCA Grassroots Preview (The 2003 season of the NMCA/NSCA Super Series gets underway with racing action from Atlanta); Mopars At The Strip (A new show in Vegas is making its bid to become the must-see show of the year for Mopar fans) Tech - 400hp Ford 302 (Heads, headers and roller rockers put a stock 302 over the four-century mark - with the stock camshaft and no power adder!); Big Brakes For Small Wheels - Part 2 (Rear discs and a power booster help our '67 Camaro really stop on a dime); Shock Controller (With Dick Miller's trick new bolt-on suspension system for GM cars, you'll be reaching for the stars the next time you hit the strip); How To Port Vortec Heads (Many have claimed GM's Vortec cylinder heads are untouchable, but a few simple cleanup tips help the already best-of-the-pack production heads reach their true potential) Departments - Point Of View; Readers' Pages; Straight Scoop; Heads Up News; Speed Shop; What's Your Problem?; Coming Next Month
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August
Cover Story - Factory-Fresh SS (We talked the owner into dropping his top for the first time since 1987), Engine Power: 911hp Big-Block Chevy (The anatomy of a brutal bracket-style big-block), Black Widow (A Tri-Five Chevy got the boot to make room for this Dodge beaut), Battle Of The Titans: Mopar 360 (Our three-way staff engine shootout series kicks off with a stout Mopar), Second Time Around (This '69 Mustang ain't Grandma's no more), Car Craft Summer Events Series Guide (Start making plans to hit the road this summer for a Car Craft show near you) Tech & Departments - Late-Model EFI Performance Series: GM's LT1 (A guide to hopping up the last-of-the-fine small block Chevys), Demon's New Road Demon Jr. Carburetors (Their jam-packed with features at a price almost too low to believe), How To Repair A Trunk Floor (A step-by-step guide to sheetmetal surgery that even many "rust-free" cars need), How To Assemble Cyinder Heads (There's more to it than just popping in the valves and springs), How To Pick A Crankshaft (Cranks: We never think about them until we drive over them - until now), All About Trans Coolers (It's the middle of the summer, so you may be needing one of these), Carb vs EFI: How It Works (An engine is an engine, whether a carb or a computer controls it. We cut through some of the black magic of EFI to flatten out your learning curve), Aftermarket Engine Block Guide (When your stock block is ready to blow, the aftermarket comes to the rescue) Departments - Point Of View, Readers' Pages, Straight Scoop, Heads Up News, Speed Shop, What's Your Problem?, Coming Next Month
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November
Cover Stories & Features - Midwest 'Tweeners (Street/race cars that do both very well, thank you); Battle Of The Titans (HP Face-Off: Chevy vs. Ford vs. Mopar); Northern Exposure (The '03 Car Craft Summer Nationals in St. Paul, Minnesota); Roots (Gene Hart's Motown-inspired small-block '67 Camaro); Big Bad Orange (A 401ci AMX with an attitude); York US 30 Revisited (A weekend full of musclecars and '60s race cars); Muscle Machines (Monster-size die-cast musclecars) Tech - The Brutal Truth (How much power are you losing at the rear wheels?); Runnin' Straight (The basics of frontend alignment); Simple Street (How to swap a distributor - the right way); Keeping Cool (Cooling system basics); Fissure Forensics (Crack-detecting to keep you hot rod chassis intact); Cheap Street Power - Part II (Building a Cheap Street small-block on paper) Departments - Coming Next Month; Point Of View; Readers' Page; Straight Scoop; Heads Up News; Speed Shop; What's Your Problem?; The Last Page
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