It can be difficult to mount an effective strategy for winning at your local drag races or simply blazing down the highway at speeds higher than what you’re used to.  But if you’re looking for significant performance and speed boosts for your car, you certainly can’t depend on stock components alone to close that gap between your vehicular performance goals and reality.  There is an array of aftermarket performance parts that can be used to modify your vehicle for greater speed and power, and if you’re dead-set on surpassing the stock capabilities of your vehicle, you can use one or several of these upgrades to help your car floor the competition.
Performance Parts
Performance add-ons are going to provide you the greatest horsepower increases, but they’ll also drain your wallet the most as well. An aftermarket turbo kit upgrade, for instance, can run you several thousand dollars, and that’s before even considering having it professionally installed.  But with horsepower gains of up to 400HP, it’s hard to not consider this add-on if you’re looking for top-of-the-line performance.  When it comes to maximum effectiveness, everything from nitrous kits to superchargers can enhance your vehicle’s on-road performance, and certainly help deliver you some wins on the track.
Performance Chips
When you plan on giving your car a major speed or power boost, using a computer chip probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.  But most vehicles nowadays rely on computers to function, and gaps in computerized functionality can be closed with the proper adjustments.  A performance chip add-on can provide you with lower gains than other parts, but they’re also much easier to install and substantially cheaper.  For under a hundred bucks, you can potentially add 60HP to your car or truck and also make it more fuel efficient as well.  If you’re expecting turbocharger-sized results, however, a chip alone won’t be enough.
Performance Add-ons and Replacements
Sometimes, it’s not power boosters or super chips that are going to make the big difference.  Instead, you can turn to items such as hood replacements to make substantial headway on your goal to greater speed.   Fiberglass hoods, as well as carbon fiber ones, are considerably lighter than the stock hoods used on most vehicles.  Without this heavy part installed, a car can move faster without as much strain on the engine.  Other items, such as aerodynamic air dams and certain spoilers, can also help decrease resistance against your car.  That way, you don’t always have to turn to a four-thousand dollar turbo kit or a computer chip add-on to make your car perform better on the road or track.

If you attended the California Hot Rod Reunion (October 15-17, 2010), we hope that you stopped by the Quarter Mile Foundation booth where they displayed the restoration of the Old Black Studebaker. The famed “Old Black Studebaker” gasser car built by the legendary Junior Thompson and Sonny Messer, a clone of the car Junior campaigned in the late 1950s and early 1960s.  Junior was on hand to talk about the car and sign autographs.

Hope that you dropped by and said “Hello”… and found out what this great organization is all about.

Or you can visit them at www.project1320.com

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Event was held Friday, Saturday and Sunday ~ July 2, 3 & 4, 2010 at Summit Motorsports Park.
A good time was had by all!!

Sanctioned/Sponsored by the
Mid America Willys Club