Pro Touring Street Cars

Modifying a Chevrolet Chevelle for pro touring abilities - power, handling and braking.

An article describing how to modify your particular dream car to fit the mold of the pro touring type; giving it better braking, handling and power characteristics.

Bolt-on parts for the budget pro touring car.

Car math, mostly horsepower and mileage ratios.

Math ratios having to do with cars. Mostly concerned with money and engine horsepower here.

Power is only half of what a car does. You've got to control all that power to get where you're going. That's the principle of handling.

Volumetric efficiency and some tricks to make your car breathe better.

Just as you have to breathe hard to run hard, a car does too.

Before you start wrenching on your old car to make it run better here are some beginning principles of how the thing works.

A pro touring car: high performance automobile for the street with good brakes and cornering. Advice on what car to start with to build a beast like this, and what to do once you have it.