LEGIT RACECRAFT

20+ years of performance

Building a beautiful project

While I was learning web-design, I learned about a tool called Adobe Color (a web application built around color-matching). Basically, millions of colors have numbers assigned to them, which reveals mathematical patterns between colors that compliment other colors. In the automotive world, this can be especially useful in project cars that are entering competitions to be judged, or are just built to impress an Instagram following even if you don't have the eye for that sort of thing. My logic is, if you can 1) find simple colors that compliment each other (like my Green with purple accent), 2) keep a tidy engine bay, and 3) hire a good photographer, then your content will promote itself as people share YOUR car on IG!

Translating this into the art of automotive modifications, the Adobe Color web-application, you can plug in one color and the webapp will show other complimentary colors. So, what color should you powdercoat your valve covers to? Well, take a picture of your car, upload it to the Adobe Color tool, and let Adobe show you what complimentary colors exist for your build. then powdercoat away and start winning trophies or just friends at those Cars and Coffee meets that you attend.

In my situation, my car is deep purple, and I opted to keep the plastic coil/timing cover from the engine I swapped the same shade of semi-dark green due to how well it matches darker shades of purple. The Adobe Color web-application confirms this. I also went with purple injectors and had the rest of my visible engine components powdercoated crinkle black (or in the case of the PT6266 turbo, Cerakoted crinkle black) to allow the colors to really pop.

Bias Calculator

Easy-to-use Calculators

Your brake bias and your valve lash are arguably a couple of the most important items regarding a finely tuned engine, and your ability to brake and control your car in a skid. I have poured a ton of time into building a webpage with some good info to tune your car, this includes calculators! It's free to use, and designed by a mechanic/tuner that knows how to build stuff with techy nerdy code stuff (that's ME!). So mess around with them, what do you have to lose?

Brake Bias Calculator, it's easy, just google your current (or future) brake piston diameters, rotor size and the other information it asks for and try to dial in your bias before you buy the parts! Try it out now!

Or for your valve lash , if you're comfortable removing your cams without snapping them, have a go at setting it, there's a cool sense of satisfaction after dialing it in yourself, unless I'm confusing that emotion with the relief after completing something you're tired of working on. I'll warn you, it's a perfectionists ideal adjustment tool that will guide you through and potentially replace hours of adjustments. Try it out now!

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unique street tuning + dyno

Street tuning in itself is not unique, but the way I approach it is. I'm not revealing all my secrets here, but one of the things I like to do on street cars is what I call "tuning for RPM by gear". Basically, I make note of the gear and RPM for 25mph, 30mph, 45mph, 65mph, etc. (so all the daily speeds typically driven in a street car) and I customize the RPM rows accordingly. This coupled with a similar column added for engine load for each gear/speed, gives each car a level of efficiency when it's being driven as a daily-driven street car. This doesn't allow the ECU to calculate between the cells when you're driving 45mph at 1800 RPM and -2 PSI, so I log a drive at different common speeds on varying up/down hill drives and then adjust the map while looking at the logs after. Your car will be custom configured to be as efficient as it can be, in addition to being a street-driven monster!

RPM based road speed, 10mph increments
Bias calc spreadsheet
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Finding the fuel system setup

(Advanced fuel flow calculator)

There are more complexities in fuel systems than most people realize. Whether that's injector duty cycle, fuel pump flow between different types of fuel(E85 compared to petroleum), staging fuel pumps, fuel line diameter, etc. In a nutshell, I have built a complex calculator for fuel flow calculation that assists you in some areas while you're learning about the others. I prefer to build a fuel system where I'm not going overkill on injector size and I've predetermined fuel flow to correctly determine how many fuel pumps I need. Approaching building your fuel system this way will potentially let you save money on fuel injectors by sizing them correctly (instead of buying 1000cc injectors if you don't need them, you can size them appropriately), so you can spend money on other car parts instead! Other considerations that you'll need are fuel line sizes and the size/number of fuel pumps. It's a good idea to keep in mind that this is a calculator, and it can be flawed in its output, so verify the information before installing. My fuel flow calc page is here.

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