VENTURA, CA – GM’s LS engines have become the engine of choice for street rods, street machines and even the latest crop of high-end sand buggies. It’s no wonder – their aluminum construction makes them extremely light and they can produce huge power with a minimum of modification. In fact, a bit of boost is all your LS engine needs no matter what vehicle it’s in. Magna Charger offers a universal system capable of 700+HP. In fact engine guru Kenny Duttweiler has coaxed 740HP out of his 402ci LS2 with only 8 lbs of boost and a few of his traditional cam and cylinder head tweaks. The Magna Charger Universal MP122 kit for LS1 and LS2 engines fits virtually any application. Its low profile design slips under most hoods without modification, and the optional front or rear air supercharger inlet offers the car builder a choice of solutions for tightly packaged engine compartments.

General Motors has produced some of the fastest and most iconic muscle cars ever built. From the Chevelle Super Sport and Olds 442 to the Pontiac GTO and the mighty Buick Grand National, GM’s midsize muscle has been ruling the street for over 40 years. Now you can give your ride the modern handling, traction, and adjustability it deserves with a new adjustable rear suspension system from Hotchkis Performance.
Available for 1964-72 GM A-Bodies and 1978-88 GM G-Bodies, the system is engineered to fit GM 10- and 12-bolt, Ford 9-inch and other rear end housings with stock location pick up points. New Double Adjustable Upper Trailing Arms, high-strength Lower Control Arms, and Tubular Trailing Arm Mount Braces work together to positively locate and control the rear axle. The double adjustable upper arms feature left and right hand threads and Swivel-Max bushings to maximize pinion angle adjustment and eliminate traction robbing wheel hop for quicker, smoother launches. Increased roll stiffness improves cornering and driveline vibration caused by improper pinion angle is eliminated.

The CITGO Pontiac Riley Daytona Prototype (DP) was the top finisher of the Pontiac competitors today at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in round five of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve. The Florida based team with Patrick Carpentier and Ryan Dalziel behind the wheel finished fifth.

Incidents and yellow flags conspired against the Pontiac teams all race. What looked to be an encouraging start with the No. 99 GAINSCO Pontiac and No. 10 SunTrust Pontiac beginning the two-hour-and-thirty-minute race from the front row soon turned sour. The No. 10 car was shuffled back in the first corner and relegated to fourth. The No. 99 kept the lead up until the team’s mandatory 45-minute pit stop. Upon leaving the pits the No. 99, which was the fastest car on the time sheets all weekend, soon developed clutch problems, hampering the speed of drivers Fogarty and Gurney.

Kelly Collins and Paul Edwards drove the No. 07 Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.R to a fourth place finish today in round five of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve U.S. Sports Car Invitational GT race run at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. James Gue and Drew Staveley finished fifth in the No. 30 GXP.R and the No. 06 of Tim Lewis Jr. and Leighton Reese came in 10th.It took only five laps for Paul Edwards to make his way from his fourth place qualifying position to lead the GT race this afternoon. The Californian took over the front spot and was running comfortable at the front, when the team brought him in on lap 25 for his 45-minute compulsory pit stop. Kelly Collins jumped behind the wheel on lap 43 and also was able to drive to the front. With only three laps remaining, Collins was forced to pit for a splash of fuel and surrendered the lead to finish the race in fourth.

Jon Fogarty piloting the No. 99 GAINSCO Pontiac Daytona Prototype (DP) qualified on the pole for tomorrow’s round five of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Special Reserve race to be run at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The qualifying session was run under foggy conditions and 50-degree temperatures, the coldest of the weekend. The race will see an all Pontiac front row for the start of the two-hour-and-thirty-minute race over this 11-turn, 2.2-mile Laguna Seca circuit. The pole for GAINSCO is their second on the season. The duo of Fogarty and Alex Gurney each have one pole position on the season, Gurney’s coming at the Rolex 24 in January. The No. 99 car has started all five races from the front row so far this year. A Pontiac DP car has been on pole for each of the five races so far this season.

Eight, inner-city, middle-school students from Flushing, NY were selected by HUMMER and the After-School All-Stars (ASAS) to spend the day at the New York Auto Show learning the ropes from a top automotive journalist. This unique opportunity brought these students deep inside the glass-and-chrome world of the newest cars and trucks.

Liberty, SC – A new 5-Speed Transmission with 5th gear as an overdrive is being manufactured by Richmond Gear.

The new Richmond Super Street Transmission is a high performance manual transmission designed to be a bolt-in replacement for both Ford, GM and MOPAR vehicles.

The Super Street is fully rated at 600 ft. lbs. of torque to confidently handle the demands of street performance, hot rods, muscle cars, racing and other high performance applications.  Ratios are available for smooth and aggressive acceleration:  First Gear 3.33 or 2.89, Second Gear 1.85, Third Gear 1.31, Fourth Gear 1:1, and Fifth Gear (over drive) 0.77.

The Super Street comes standard with a Long Shifter for the ultimate in shift performance and durability.

Based on the successful NASCAR-type design and technology, the Super Street is built on the dependable Richmond manual transmission housing.  The design allows for more robust gears and components that provide the torque handling capacity higher horsepower performance vehicles require.

The Richmond Super Street 5-Speed with Over Drive Transmission will be available in early March 2007.

Chatsworth, CA: The key to getting any vehicle off the starting line or through the traffic lights is a well-matched, balanced torque converter. Whether you’re on the bottle, boosted or all-motor, your torque converter takes the shock and burden every time the vehicle is launched. B&M has designed a variety of torque converters to suite every driveline combination. The greatest known converter killers are nitrous equipped motors. The instantaneous horsepower generated by nitrous will cause ballooning of the cover and a shortened lifespan.

To remedy this, B&M designed the Nitrous HoleShot converter with anti-ballooning plates specifically intended to harness the horsepower of nitrous equipped engines. The Nitrous HoleShot also offers a furnace-brazed impeller, heavy-duty needle bearing between the stator and impeller, furnace brazed turbine and a precision steel alloy pump drive tube. Offered in 2400, 3000 and 3600 rpm stall speeds, the Nitrous HoleShot is THE heavy-duty converter for GM, Ford and Chrysler transmission.

B&M also offers their standard HoleShot converter for all-motor or mildly boosted applications. The standard HoleShot converter can be used in applications up to 450 lb-ft. of torque. Available in 2000, 2400, 3000 and 3600 rpm stall speeds, the HoleShot offers extreme performance at an affordable price.