The Smoking Tire heads out to Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch for the Optima Batteries Ultimate Streetcar Invitational, where SEMA Showcars get the crap kicked out of them on the race track. While there, host Matt Farah not only gets to test out the track himself in a Lotus, but also gets a ride from a pro driver in a Radical SR3.
Radical Rides and the Optima Ultimate Streetcar Invitational
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Can You Improve Your Old Car’s Performance With a Factory Tune? – Part 3/3
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009The Smoking Tire heads back to the race track and dyno to find out what kind of performance gains could be measured from our 166,000 mile VW Jetta.
Can You Improve Your Old Car’s Performance With a Factory Tune? Part 1/3
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009After a few months of playing about, The Smoking Tire decides to get all scientific on our good buddy Jason Thorgalsen’s 2001 Volkswagen Jetta VR6. The Jetta hasn’t been serviced in the last 40,000 of it’s total 166,000 miles, and surely some power has been lost during that time. But how much power exactly? And can that power be recovered simply by performing a routine service on the car? I guess we will see.
Semi Truck Autocross With Samuel Hubinette
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009The Smoking TIre meets up with Samuel Hubinette at El Toro Marine Air Base for an autocross lesson. The problem is, the Corvette was in the shop so we had to use a Semi Truck.
