Car Throttle

If you want a taste of the classic American car-as-art experience, all you have to do is head down to your local Advance Auto Parts on a sunny summer Saturday. I literally stumbled upon this carshow while driving around with a friend in Cary, North Carolina.  The quality and execution of some of the classic musclecars there was impressive enough to warrant coverage; I think you'll agree. The first thing that caught my eye was this clean-as-clean-can-be 2nd-generation Chevrolet Camaro.  I'm normally the furthest thing from a fan of the second-generation Camaros; they had the taught proportions of the gorgeous first-gens, but the lines were a mishmash of "what were they thinking?"  This one proves to be an exception to the rule; that is what I call

In an undeniable sign of the times, General Motors announced that they would be axing their "HPVO" (Performance Vehicles Operation) division as part of brand-wide cost-cuts necessary for their "economic viability" plan for Congress.  This is alarming news for fans of GM performance vehicles, which is one thing the General does quite well. Don't put the Z06 in cryogenic storage just yet, though: it's not quite the end of the world as we know it. The team of 60 engineers, who worked near GM's headquarters in Detroit, have been redeployed elsewhere into the company to focus on development of more important core vehicles, like upcoming mainstream sedans and crossovers - in other words, the cars that real people will buy in large numbers, which is what GM needs

If you're a highly imbalanced individual who owns a ZR1 Corvette, there's good news!  Since 638 horsepower and 604 lb-ft of torque in a 3400lb car clearly isn't enough, Texas tuner extraordinaire Hennessey Motorsports has come out with two new tuning kits for the supercharged LS9 'Vette. The kit  includes the basic upgrades for a supercharged engine.  The 4-lobe Eaton supercharger is cranked from 11 psi to 14psi via a smaller-diameter drive pulley (which increases the speed of the blower) as well as a reworked intake duct for better flow. Heat is battled with a larger air-to-water intercooler core, and exhaust gases exit through free-flowing 1 7/8" stainless mandrel-bent headers, midpipes and high-flow catalysts.  Hennessey also recalibrates the ECU to accommodate the changes, and fits a K&N air