When you pay good money for horse-power, you want that power to go to the wheels as planned. Cars with manual transmission have a virtual Twilight Zone of variables, so to speak, that can rob you of ...

Your clutch synchronizes the transmission speed with the engine speed. Sudden clutch dumping can lead to high engine RPM and ...

As laid out in the first installment of our "C5 on a Shoestring" series, our plan is to extract Z06-quality performance from our '97 coupe for substantially less than the typical asking price of a ...

Every now and then, a mechanic or engineer will start talking about dual-mass flywheels, but what are they? And why would car makers use them?

In the first part of this project series we learned of my experiences with a slipping clutch--a problem I was having after only a couple of baseline quarter-mile test runs. The second write-up ...

A 1999 Nissan Maxima with only 60,000 miles may need a clutch and flywheel replacement, costing around $1,400, possibly more due to the vehicle's age. Using semi-synthetic oil in a new 2025 Ford ...

Cars with manual transmissions are unequivocally more fun than their automatically shifted counterparts. The only downside: Clutch discs are wear items, and that means you might have to get your hands ...

A flywheel is a heavy disc attached to the end of a rotating shaft that helps smooth out the engine’s power pulses and store energy through rotational momentum. Related: What Is a Misfire and What ...

When maintaining your old project car or with the purchase of a new project, as is the case with this 1986 Ford Mustang GT, there are several things you can expect to do at some point in time. Those ...

All too often we forget that there is a heavy buzz-saw sitting near our feet in our car. Your flywheel spins at thousands of revolutions per-minute, as a large rotating mass of metal attached to the ...