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Top Fuel cylinder scuffing

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Success in the Top Fuel category of NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series competition relies on many different factors, but always comes down to the tuner's success in predicting the atmospheric conditions, the amount of clutch necessary to propel the car and making the right tune-up decisions. Chasing the perfect combination is always the mantra for crew chiefs and tuners in the Top Fuel game - and anyone who doesn't admit that they're chasing the top teams from Al-Anabi Racing...

Rings of doom?

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Followers of Tolkien's epic tales, the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, will know all about the One Ring. A magical thing made from gold, and impervious to damage, the wearer would be invisible to ordinary men and projected him or her into a shadowy world that dims the sight and enhances the other senses. And of course, created by the Dark Lord Sauron and forged in the fires of Mount Doom in the black land of Mordor, its power over just about everything was seemingly unstoppable. As...

Cryogenics

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The application of cryogenic treatments to materials has been discussed previously in RET-Monitor. In that article, we went into the basics of the treatment, how it is used as part of the hardening and tempering process for certain special steels, and touched on how it can also be used for relieving stress in metallic components. We should not though expect to see benefits from throwing components into a bucket of something very cold. The details of the process are much more complex than...

Water brake dynos

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Water brake dynamometers are some of the most popular devices for engine bench testing, thanks to their relative simplicity and low cost. They are also ideally suited to the testing of high-output engines, thanks to the scalability of their design. Water brakes use water flow proportional to the applied load to create resistance to the test engine's output. A controlled flow of water through the inlet manifold is directed at the centre of the rotor in each absorption section; the water...

Touring cars

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In 2011 the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) introduced the Next Generation Touring Car (NGTC), which is based on a regulation package aimed at reducing costs in the series. Part of this package is the requirement that a 'spec' gearbox be run in all cars; previously, gearbox manufacturer choice had been free. Mandating spec components is the route taken by many touring car championships, so here I want to look at some of the transmission types and technologies used in touring...
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