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Contents: Cover Section: Lies – 25 Lies Car Magazines Have Told For Years (Can you handle the truth?) Special Section: Engine Swaps – Engine-To-Trans Adapters (Marlan’s megachart tells how to bolt any engine to any trans), Guide To Swap Kits And Components (How to get your engine swapped into any chassis), Other Engine-Swap Concerns (Just getting it bolted in is only half the battle), Engine-Swap Sources (All the companies that can help you out) Tech – Car Craft Basics: Four-Speed Transmissions (The power flow through a typical manual trans), Gauge Installation (A custom console loaded with VDO meters), How To Prep Connecting Rods At Home (Polish the beams with Standard Abrasives’ kit), Big-Block Chevy Oil-Cooler Secrets (Tips for the new Gen V blocks), How To Do A Leakdown Test (Check engine condition with Total Seal’s new tester) Features – 10-Second Olds 442 (Sorry guys – it’s Chevy-powered. We liked it anyway), 45 Years Of Car Craft (The gearhead timeline, from HONK through today), Design Your Own Issue Of Car Craft (You pick the stories you want and we’ll do ’em), Why Wagons Aren’t Just For Geek’s Anymore (The best station wagons of all time), ’71 Big-Block Nova (A rejuvenated X-body for your showing pleasure), Tire & Wheel Styling Guide (We mated our favorite new wheels with the latest rubber) Departments – In This Issue, Readers’ Pages, Straight Scoop, New Products, Tech Talk, Pro Shop Products, Coming Next Month
Issue: May 1998
Condition: Very Good