Hot Rod - 1998

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January
Cover Story - HOT ROD's 50th Anniversary Special (From the dry lakes to the Power Tour, we were there!) People & Places - The Emergence Of Hot Rodding (Veteran rodder Pat Ganahl exposes the roots of our happy madness); Haul In The Family (The Kugels head for 300 mph - in a door slammer); Groovin' At The Grove (The HOT ROD Power Festival: Take Two); 200 MPH On Dirt! (Will Handzel goes back to where it all began in a nitro coupe) Tech - Deep-Breathin' Ponchos (Messin' with Edelbrock's aluminum Pontiac heads); Basic Tech Series: Cylinder Heads (What you need to know when you buy a used block); Hot Couple (A hot-rodder's torque-converter primer); Aluminim Head Repair (Everything it's cracked up to be); New = Old (Repro buyer's guide) Street Machines - Tidal Wave (Phoenix meltdown - Mike Everett's 520hp Ranger) Rods & Customs - Clone-Runner Sketchpad (Chip Foose returns reet to the street); Cover Clone (Roy Brizio's rendition of hot rod No. 1) Departments - Starting Line; Reaction Time; Readers' Rides; Roddin' At Random; Heads Up News; Power Tour News; Pit Stop; New Stuff; Tech Inspector
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February
Cover Story - Demon Nitrous On The Loose! (Coming face to face with the beast); Chemical Horsepower (How to use and tune nitrous oxide); Bottle Bomb (Applying demon tweaks to a junkyard dawg) People & Places - 50th Anniversary Section: The Early Years (The speed seekers: Fords for gow, Chevys to plow) Drag Racing Guide - World's Fastest Street Cars Section (How to kick booty all over the track); Race Preparation For Mind And Body (Your car's ready to win...are you?); Reactionary Science (Helpful tips for better vehicle reaction time); Weekend At Billy's (A closer look at 1997 Super Street champ Billy Glidden); Dragstrip Track List (Our guide to eighth- and quarter-mile tracks) Tech - Buyer's Guide: Hot Stuff From SEMA (All the latest double-throwdown bits); Basic Tech Series: Crankshaft (How to shop for a used one); Partnering For Performance (Two technology leaders leap into tomorrow together); The 351 That Ford Should Have Built: Part I (On the path to 11:1 compression, 87-octane gas, and 400hp eith factory EFI) Street Machines - Motor Trend Tests Hot Detroit (Looking back at our future) Rods & Customs - Bull's-Eye, Part II (Geoge Poteet's '54 Savoy gets "Viperactive"); Cover Clone, Part II (It's fun, it's done, and it's ready to run) Departments - Starting Line; Reaction Line; Readers' Rides; Roddin; At Random; Power Tour News; Heads Up News; Pit Stop; Tech Inspection
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March
Cover Section - Hot Rod Goes Racing (HRM and Interstate Batteries power up Joe Gibb's fuel flopper.) Special Section - Chaos, Ink (Rodders find another way to customize.), War Paint (The art of reviving our gasoline-soaked past.), Morphed Musclecar Graphics (Customized callouts for customized cars.) People & Places - Big, Fat 50th Anniversary Section (HRM's 50 most influential issues.), (R)evolution On The Quarter-Mile (The 1998 Hot Rod race series continues to evolve.) Tech - Bottle Bomb, Part II (On the path to destruction with a juiced junk-yard dawg.), Basic Tech Series: Connecting Rods (Think you're stressed? Try being a connecting rod.), Stop! (Performance brakes buyer's guide.), Birth of a Judge, Part I (ACC's hallowed Goat stands naked.) Street Machines - The Gelding (Our '96 4.6L Mustang goes the distance...slowly.), With This Truck! (This one-of-a-kind F-150 can be yours.), Dusterb'D (Woody Grover's sublime Sub-Lime '71 Duster.), Left-Coast Boast (Hard-core 5.0 from Cali.), Independent Thinking (Another Pro-Street Camaro...but with a twist.) Rods & Customs - Switch Hitter (Rod-testing a 205-mph, street-legal roadster.), Beyond Rods & Customs (Ramp rod revival - truckin' on down.) Departments = Starting Line; Reaction Time; Readers' Rides; Roddin' At Random; Power Tour News; Heads Up News; New Stuff; Pit Stop; Tech Inspection
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April
Cover Section - 50th Anniversary: Parts With Appeal (Remembering yesteryear's girls with goodies.) Basic Tech 101 - HOT ROD and UTI Present: Basic Tech 101, Air Raid: Breathe From Above (How a naturally aspirated engine breathes.), Camshaft Mysteries Explained! (Not how they do it, but what they do.), Injection Connection (Understanding how OEM electronic fuel injection operates.), Engine-Cycle Analysis (What it tells us about engine efficiency.) People & Places - Chevy Chaser (Pinky's Bow Tie palace.) Tech - Drop Your Iron! )Complete street lilght-alloy cylinder block catalog.), Valvespring Torture Table (Isky and Spintron team up for maximum quality control.), Tools R Us (Handtool buyers guide.) Street Machines - Process, Progress, Protest, No Rest (Four easy steps to a street legal, 11-second F-body.), Pro-Jectile (Jim Stoltman's striking '48 Studie.), Birth of a Judge, Part II (Supreme Court Goatus rules the Power Tour.) Rods & Customs - Angelo's Angel (Delivering SVO's new four-valve, pent-roof message.), Double Deuce (Thirty Two valves for a '32 Roadster.) Departments - Starting Line; Reaction Time; Readers' Rides; Roddin' At Random; Power Tour News; Heads Up News; New Stuff; Pit Stop; Tech Inspection
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August
Cover Story - Rodent Rumble (HOT ROD builds a Mouse trap and tries to catch a rat.) Tech - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death (A popular crate motor buyer's guide.), Magnum Manifesto (Origins of the Mopar 360/380 crate motor.), Under Achievement (Picking up free horsepower with underdrive pulleys.), Alternative Energy Source (Improve charging with a "one-wire" alternator.), Basic Tech Series: Piston Rings (The science of cylinder sealing.) People & Places - Era of the LSI (A quantum-leap into two-valve engine technology.) Street Machines - Power Wagon (The Dakota R/T fills the ponycar void at Chrysler.), Ramblefish (One good reason why there should be more AMC street machines.), Take It Off, Take It All Off (Stripping a '57 street machine.), No-Lag Wagon (Fove doors, no waiting.) Rods & Customs - Shoebox Showcase (A roderate to rodical '50's restyle Departments - Starting Line; Reaction Time; Roddin; At Random; Power Tout News; Heads Up News; New Stuff; Pit Stop; Tech Inspection; Readers' Rides
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September
Cover Stories - Power Tour West 1998 (Just how big does this thing get?); Down & Dirty (400M Ford: 468 lb-ft for less than $2,000); Ray Gun (Ray Barton's Racing's 527 lb-ft 451 Mopar stroker); Rocket Booster (455 Olds: 542 lb-ft at 4,000 rpm); Four-Grand Caddo (575 lb-ft from 500 Cadillac cubes? No sweat) Tech - Magnum Manifesto, Part 2 (The interchangeability of Magnum and non-Magnum parts) Street Machines - Skully (Giving new life to old bones); Rapid Transit Authorities (Life with a pair of 12-second commuter Camaros) Rods & Customs - McGurk Mementos (Stroker was more than a joke); Quintessential Custom (The return of the "Hero-hata" Merc) Departments - Starting Line; Reaction Time; Roddin' At Random; Power Tour News; Heads Up News; New Stuff; Pit Stop; Tech Inspection; Readers' Rides
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October
Cover Story - The First And Frugal 50 (50 of the hottest-performance-per-dollar parts) Tech - Put Up Or Shut Up (Dominion four-valve heads put out); Swirl-Quench Piston (New spin on an old concept); Basic Juice Recipe (Nitrous plates and associated components); Juicing The Gen-III (A bolt-on nitrous system can put LS1 F-cars into the 11s); Don't Be A Chicken (How to powdercoat at home); Magnum Manifesto - Part Three (Engine swap and dragstrip testing); Practical Power (Is it possible to bolt on 100 hp in an hour?) People & Places - The Southern California Exploding Inevitable (The epic tale of The Surfers - Part One) Street Machines - Yada Yada Yellow (A truck for all reasons); Gherkin Merc (Let's cruise into yesterday) Rods & Customs - Rookie's Reacher (Removing the body was the hardest part); Francisco's Flyer (Keep it original and in the family) Departments - Starting Line; Reaction Time; Roddin' At Random; Power Tour News; Heads Up News; New Stuff; Pit Stop; Tech Inspection; Readers' Rides
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November
Cover Story - The Red Car (HOT ROD's best-known project car reborn); Fifteen-Week Wonder, Part One (ACC's hole-hog '82 Camaro resto-mod); Earthmovers (Three bulldozers: 1,890 hp. 1,741 lb-ft. 'Nuff said?); Cannibal Camaro (Ed and Janet Pifer's '69 RS/SS headhunter) Tech - Bump And Grind (Unlocking camshaft mysteries 1/10,000 of an inch at a time); Performance Cams: Beyond The Basics (Heavy tips on sensible, cost-effective camshaft selection); SOHC 'Stang: The Sequel (Simple bolt-ons yield 20 hp, a lot more to come); L-Evating The LS1 (Honest-to-God speed parts for Chevy's new V-8); Limited Slip (How-to install an Auburn posi unit); Clawing To The Top (BG Fuel Systems offerd race-quality features for the street) People & Places - The Epic Saga Of The Surfers, Part Two (How three SoCal geeks put Top Fuel on its ear in the '60s) Rods & Customs - Way-Out Wagons (Thom Taylor sportifies some unlikely long-roof cruisers) Departments - Starting Line; Reaction Time; Roddin' At Random; Power Tour News; Heads-Up News; Tech Inspection; Catalog Collection; New Stuff; Pit Stop; Reader's Rides
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December
Cover Section - Injection Infection (Take a closer look.), The 10 Deadly EFI Sins...(And HOT ROD's path to salvation.), Retro-Jection (Putting TPI on a classic Chevy.), When World's Collide (Space-age EFI on a stone-age Hemi Dart - Part 1.), Fuelie For The Masses (Swap your carb for TBI and live happily ever after.), Trans Amformation (Closed-loop TBI for hot-rodded engines.) Tech - Bicep Builder (Converting power steering to full manual.), Tried & True (Down and dirty four-bbl carb swap - Part One.), Multiple Maniacs (MSD gies digital.), The 351 Ford Should Have Built - Part Two (Factory EFI and regular gas: 400 hp and 450 lb-ft.) Street Machines - Atypical (Not your normal red Camaro.), Fifteen-Week Wonder - Part Two (The longest haul.), Rookie's Reacher (Shoebox serendipity, Part Two.) People & Places - Custom Cult (The king of low-brow revs it up a notch.) Rods & Customs - Crudely Correct (Maintaining the outlaw theme.), The Great Rat-Rod Revival (Riding the new old-wave.)
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