Car Blog for Automotive Enthusiasts
Copied from a popular thread in the grabercars forum, CAD plans to build your own cnc router table are being made available to the general public. If you want to see some photos of what Jim has built so far, please visit Image Gallery Here . Hopefully I will be able to...
Here is a list of books that might be of interest to persons designing and building cars: Don Alexander’s “Performance Handling” from 1991 “Peterson’s Basic Chassis, Suspension, and Brakes”, 1970 “How To Modify Your Mini” by David Vizard, 1977 Paul Van Valkenburgh’s “Race Car Engineering and Mechanics”, 1992 ed....
Credit for this technique goes to Stefan Mullikin, who described this very straightforward method of alignmet on the Grassroots Motorsports Forum Start by getting the car level, side to side, front and rear using a long builders level. Once that’s done, mark the spots for the shims and the car on the...
I’d like to extend a big welcome to all the people visiting my site from Grassroots Motorsports Magazine! GRM is one of my all-time favorite magazines and not just because my car has been listed as Internet Car of the Month for August 2004! I was very happy and quite suprised when...
My car uses a deDion rear axle. (photo) It behaves like a live axle in that the two rear wheels are always parallel to each other and perpendicular to the ground. But unlike a traditional live axle, the differential is not carried on the axle and is not part of the unsprung...
La Bala is a low-compromise, from the ground-up, new car. It is built using an early model Toyota MR2 powertrain. The reality is that there are many other donor choices available that may actually be better suited to lightweight vehicle construction. At this point though, construction is far along and won’t change...
Graber Cars is an automotive blog run by Sam Thomas. Sam has been a car enthusiast since he was a teenager with over a decade of experience working in an auto shop. Although he has since retired from the mechanic life, Sam still keeps up with car trends and technologies every day.
Every month, Graber Cars will showcase one of the coolest cars according to me. There's no science behind the evaluation. I just pick the cars that I like best!
This month, I decided to award the Car of the Month to the Laborghini Miura. It's a strong, sleek, and sexy retro vehicle that hold up against the test of time. You won't find a better fusion of vintage and modern car design than this impressive Laborghini.
