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Selecting Stock Car Road Racing Ratios in 4 Speed Dog Ring Transmissions

Selecting Stock Car Road Racing Ratios in 4 Speed Dog Ring Transmissions

Posted by Craig McCormick on Jan 17th 2023

Let's take a look at how to select road racing parts to give the best gear ratios for a dog ring transmission, to put the right stock car road racing parts in your grassroots road racing car.Dog ring transmissions such as the legendary Jerico have been used in stock car road racing and asphalt …
Lola Can Am Restoration with GUD Racing Parts

Lola Can Am Restoration with GUD Racing Parts

Posted by Craig McCormick on Oct 11th 2022

This 1981 VDS Lola Can Am car is being restored by GUD Racing's own Craig McCormick. Watch the video of the first fire up of the Lucas injected small block chev.The car was 003 in a team of 4 cars run by the VDS Racing Team out of Midland, Texas and campaigned in the Can Am Challenge Racing Ser …
5 Tips For A Great Road Racing Weekend

5 Tips For A Great Road Racing Weekend

Posted by Craig McCormick on May 2nd 2022

5 Simple Tips to Prepare For A Great Road Race WeekendI was daydreaming in the workshop of some simple things I could do in the shop before a race weekend to make the weekend go more smoothly.We have a WhatsApp group for our race series, American Muscle Car Masters, so I decided to pose the ques …
How to Protect Your Critical Dry Sump Oil System Components

How to Protect Your Critical Dry Sump Oil System Components

Posted by Craig McCormick on Oct 1st 2021

Some simple best practices for protecting critical components in the dry sump oiling system on your race car.I learnt the hard way some time ago there are some simple and inexpensive components that can be added to your dry sump oiling system to protect the more expensive components from debris …
How to Install Ride Height Adjusters in Your Race Car Chassis

How to Install Ride Height Adjusters in Your Race Car Chassis

Posted by Craig McCormick on Sep 24th 2021

The best chassis modification to easily adjust ride height on your race car.A while ago I installed a set of front ride height adjusters to my American Muscle Car Masters Mustang. The chassis is a Howe ASA/GTA chassis but this article can easily be adapted to your particular chassis. Tools needed …
How to Change Rear Axle Tubes on a Quick Change Rear End

How to Change Rear Axle Tubes on a Quick Change Rear End

Posted by Al Fernandez on Sep 18th 2021

At my last American Muscle Car Masters event, I broke an axle shaft. Since both axle shafts are the same age and they do fatigue, its reasonable to replace both. However, since two axle shafts make up the bulk of the cost of changing the rear track width, I decided this was a good time to optimize m …
How to Select Power Steering Components for Your Race Car

How to Select Power Steering Components for Your Race Car

Posted by Craig McCormick on Sep 8th 2021

After a frustrating weekend fixing power steering issues at a recent American Muscle Car Masters event, I decided it was time to identify some of the key issues that can be faced when repairing or specifying a power steering system for a race car. The goal for me was to put together the best sys …
Nebraska State Fair Shootout

Nebraska State Fair Shootout

Posted by Craig McCormick on Aug 31st 2021

The guys from GUD Racing travelled 850miles from Tomball TX to Motorsports Park Hastings to race in the American Muscle Car Masters road racing series with the NASA Central Region last weekend. The AMCM drivers contested some close battles across the 4 race weekend that kept the crowd …
Tired of unexpected backorders

Tired of unexpected backorders

Posted by Craig McCormick on Aug 19th 2021

Quite possibly the worst outcome of the Covid 19 pandemic for a grassroots racer (aside from more morbid outcomes) is placing an order for race car parts only to find out after checkout that the part inventory wasn't actually in stock at all, meaning the parts or racing equipment you really nee …