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Brake Bleeding Tools
Posted on Tuesday, June 30 @ 12:22:56 EDT (11 reads)
Topic:Tech Corner
On MotorMouth Radio we regularly get calls and e-mails asking how to properly bleed and flush brake systems, and what tools are needed to accomplish these tasks. While Chris and I agree that brake fluid should be flushed and replaced with new fluid every two years or so, we typically have different ideas regarding how to do the job. Are you surprised? You shouldn’t be-we usually sit 180° apart on any mechanical decision like this. Now that I can give my opinions without being interrupted I’m going to detail the common tools used to bleed or flush a brake system found on cars and motorcycles. As is always the case with safety related systems on your vehicle, don’t attempt these procedures if you haven’t got a working knowledge of how the system works. It’s always better to pay a professional to work on your brakes than it is to lose them due to poor work habits, so don’t get in over your head-use your head! Since this article is aimed at detailing the tools needed as opposed to how to do the job, I’ll include pictures of the equipment I reference along with current average prices.
Charity is a Drag
Posted on Saturday, June 27 @ 08:07:42 EDT (20 reads)
Topic:General
Quarter-Mile Couple Races For Favorite Causes
By Josh Stewart
No amount of pleading or prodding will make Andrew Parise comfortable disclosing the motivation of his nickname, “Bam Bam,” for public consumption. He merely shifts his weight while heeing and hawing about a misspent youth.
That’s OK. Whatever the story is, he and wife Dina are doing more than enough to make penance. If there was ever a doubt in their minds, it was eased one night while eating out. The Oakdale couple, who compete in pro mod drag racing, had decided after watching friends suffer from multiple sclerosis that they would utilize their pastime to raise funds and awareness for the disease.
“We wanted to give something back, that’s the biggest thing,” Andrew explains of their Racing for a Cure project. “We’re sitting there at dinner and a couple next to us is overhearing us and all of a sudden they started crying. And I’m like, Wow, we must’ve said something wrong. And the guy turns to us a
“Auto Therapy”
Posted on Friday, June 26 @ 11:19:16 EDT (7 reads)
Topic:General
By Andrew Nussbaum
In our busy and complicated times, relieving stress has become a pursuit on to it self, with a wide range of therapeutic outlets to calm one’s nerves. Some people concentrate on the physical aspects of stress seeking out acupuncture, yoga, athletics or other exercise to release that, which troubles them.
Some will eat or drink their difficulties away, although I suggest moderation when using these methods. Still others will seek counsel from a friend or family member or perhaps professional consultation while lying on a couch. The list goes on and is as infinite as the daily trials, which lead us all to seek some outlet.
One Hall Of A Career
Posted on Friday, June 26 @ 11:09:24 EDT (30 reads)
Topic:General
Enshrined Drag Racer Lynch Keeps Passion Close By
By Josh Stewart
Standard SUVs with assorted ailments line one wall of Atlantic Auto Collision in Huntington Station. A good theme song for these repairs would be BB King’s “The Thrill Is Gone.”
“This kind of business can get you hating cars,” owner Billy Lynch admits of dealing with such mundane machines.
Luckily, the 66-year-old Lynch has a Da Vinci among these dogs playing poker, a replica of the dragster he drove, a quarter-mile at a time, all the way to the East Coast Drag Times Hall of Fame. Its placement would at best be described as inefficient. Employees must negotiate it while lugging parts, and it all but requires a detour if Lynch wants to get from his workspace to his office.
Where There’s A Wheel, There’s A Way
Posted on Friday, June 26 @ 07:37:26 EDT (15 reads)
Topic:General
Jersey Couple Shoots For Truck Series Glory
By Josh Stewart
It’s the kind of story a true car fetishist should hear only after two shots of rotgut and a hug from Mom.
Back in 1983, high schooler Paul Bamburak was just moments away from Americana ecstasy. His father’s 1957 Chevy Bel Air, black on black, was parked on the road with a big bow on it. All that was left was to finish dinner.
“We hear this big bang,” Bamburak remembers. “So I go running out to my window to look, and the trunk’s sitting in the backseat, parked in the street, still sitting there with that bow on it.”
What was supposed to be Bamburak’s first car was so crumpled its only use would’ve been fresh meat at a monster truck rally.
Bet On This Vette
Posted on Thursday, June 25 @ 16:02:27 EDT (10 reads)
Topic:General
Drag Radial Driver Making His Mark
By Josh Stewart
Photos by Jerry Faldetta
Others may embellish their schedules, but when Paul Major answers his cell phone and says that he’s “busy as hell,” he’s not kidding around.
There’s more than enough on the Fort Salonga resident’s plate as owner of PM Construction Services and PM Maintenance. Nevertheless, he can’t help having a time-consuming hobby. After all, it was that business success that allowed a childhood dream to ness success that allowed a childhood dream to come true with the purchase of a new Corvette Quicksilver Z06 in 2001.
1968 Chevy Camaro Convertible
Posted on Monday, April 27 @ 11:27:56 EDT (97 reads)
Topic:General
Angelo had a 1968 FireBird convertible back in High School, while three of his close friends owned Camaro's. It's always been a dream of his to own a 1968 Convertible.
In September of 2005 his sister in law was looking for parking out in Riverhead for the Atlantis Aquarium and she drove around the block and called Angelo immediately upon seeing the car. He went out there the next day with his brother Joe and before he knew it the car was his. It was Metallic Forest Green with a 327 power glide automatic.
1971 Chevelle
Posted on Friday, April 24 @ 09:06:50 EDT (107 reads)
Topic:General
This 1971 Chevelle was originally equipped with a 307ci v-8 and an automatic transmission. It was purchased by Mike and Andrew Hadjandreas in August of 2007 as a father and son project with the idea of creating a personalized SS. Being the car was running they decided to address the interior first.
Blown 'N Bad
Posted on Monday, April 20 @ 17:31:19 EDT (174 reads)
Topic:General
Ever since Harold Caron laid his eyes on Lee Sheppard’s unbeatable Pro Stock IROC he was in love. That bad looking machine was the inspiration for Harold’s vision. He purchased this 1984 Chevy Camaro on his 18th birthday in September of 1990. He was specifically looking for a 1982-1992 because the body styles for that manufacturing period are interchangeable. Eventually he converted the body to the 1988 IROC-Z you see here in the photos.
Fuast & Furious 4 debuted #1
Posted on Monday, April 06 @ 09:01:17 EDT (104 reads)
Topic:General
If you went to see Fast & Furious this weekend, chances are you were looking for one thing in particular. Not nuanced acting. Not tear-jerking drama. Certainly not witty banter (I'm pretty sure you could fit the whole of the movie's dialogue on a napkin). Nope, you wanted automotive action, pure and simple -- and the faster the better.
The best part of the F&F franchise is that it's more than happy to oblige.
Fast and Furious debuted #1 at the box office this weekend, earning $72.5 million. The largest in movie history for an April opening. The film had a budget of $85 million and had the highest per theater average of any in the top ten with $20,950 per theater. This is the largest opening for any film in the Fast and Furious franchise, beating out 2 Fast 2 Furious, which took in $60 million in its opening weekend back in 2003.
