Do You Want More Horsepower And Torque?
Although there are many ways to increase the horsepower and torque of your street rod, you need to consider whether your vehicle is carbureted or fuel injected. Next you need to set a budget. It wouldn’t be very hard to spend thousands of dollars souping up your ride.
We’ll assume you have a carburated engine. You could start out on the top of your engine with the carburetor and intake manifold. You could easily research what type of carb. and manifold you need to accomplish you goals. Now, before you just go slapping on a new carb. and manifold, you ought to remove the heads from your engine and to take them to a machine shop and have them ported and polished.Confused? Here ‘s a little help . If you have the correct tools and the know how, this isn’t that difficult of a task. As an added bonus you’ll be replacing the head gaskets.
Now that you have increased the amount of fuel and air coming into the combustion chamber, the next thing you need to do is upgrade the ignition source. A high performance, high output electronic ignition system along with a billet aluminum distributor, 10 millimeter spark plug wires and performance spark plugs of your choice.
