I dont know much about cars, but i know a little bit. But these muscle cars im looking at are foreign and strange to me. Wheres a good website to learn the basics on how these cars work.
I’m mostly curious too learn about the names of the parts under the hood. Thanks!
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not car magazines, but you can buy a book on amazon.com and also try to take classes at schools that specialize in this.
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Really for all the hot looks, fat tires, mean exhaust sound - they work the same as the little junker that guys drive to the rail station.
engine+gearbox+driveshaft+differential+wheels.
I’d suggest a visit to your local library and ask the folks behind the desk for a book that explains how cars work - they can find just what you need.
good question. there are a few places… i learned because my father a chevy mechanic ******** muscle car enthusiast bought me a clear plastic model engine with working parts. if you get one of those it will commonly come with a little book showing you every part of an engine of your choosing.
it will show all parts, how they work what they do. everything from the throttle body to the torque converter everything in between.
now there will still be allot to be learned like compression ratios cam lift… after i finished the model my dad let me help him my brother build hit turbo 383 small block then i got to help him tune his blown 454.
but if you start with a model engine kit it will fill you in enough to get you understanding most of the car jargon you read about in muscle car magazines
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Muscle cars are simply older cars with lots of power and racy looks (at least for their era) they use carburetors instead of e f i, distributors instead of computer spark control, and most handle badly compared to modern machines. Some of them even handled evilly for their time. One good source is, this site may not deliver enough detail for you. Many of the muscle car community don’t get real technical on websites because we’ve been doing this all our lives, and aside from bench racing (re; telling each other lies about how fast, etc,) we don’t see the point rehashing stuff we all already know. Besides, a lot of us aren’t really up on the web. When I’m doing the muscle car thing, I prefer good old hard copy.