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Chevy High Performance Insider

Chevy High Performance Insider

Ryan Steele 13 minute read

For once, maybe we should cut the Blue Oval loyalist some slack. Sure, many of them would rather swallow their pride and bolt a venerable GM automatic...

Building a 1934-35 Chevy

Ryan Steele 8 minute read

Overdrive transmissions might seem like the perfect solution for any vehicle, and indeed they are offered today in almost every machine from the smallest...

Overdrive Automatics for Classic Trucks: What Holds Up, What Fails, and Why

Overdrive Automatics for Classic Trucks: What Holds Up, What Fails, and Why

Ryan Steele 8 minute read

A 73 to 87 C-10 with a three speed Turbo Hydra-Matic behind a fresh engine is a truck that runs out of gear at 65 mph. Everything else on the truck can...

Hitting the Sweet Spot

Ryan Steele 13 minute read

We’ve all read car features in magazines and noted the major components used in each one’s construction, but how many builders actually build to a plan and...

Street Rodder

Ryan Steele 2 minute read

Gear Star has been remanufacturing performance automatic transmissions since 1984, but what separates the company from the rest is the fact that every one...

Simple C-10 Solutions

Ryan Steele 2 minute read

Why is it always the little things? They seem to be able to make or break just about anything in life, from trucks, taxes, to the opposite sex, but let’s...

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