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  2. Hurst Performance - Wikipedia

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    By the early 1960s, Hurst transmission shifters and other products had become legendary in auto racing, particularly in drag racing, and among custom car makers. Many automobile enthusiasts replaced basic factory floor and column-mounted gear shifts with custom Hurst floor shifters to obtain better control of gear selection, particularly for ...

  3. Semi-trailer aerodynamic device - Wikipedia

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    Semi-trailer aerodynamic devices are devices affixed to semi-trailers, for the purpose of reducing aerodynamic drag caused by air turbulence. The two major types of device in use are trailer skirts (or side skirts ), affixed to the underside of trailers, and trailer tails (or boat tails , or rear fairings ), affixed to the rear.

  4. Tire changer - Wikipedia

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    However, now, bigger versions of the heavy-duty tire changers are designed to mount/demount tires up to 95 inches (2.4 m) in diameter and also feature a hydraulically operated self-centering four-jaw chuck with clamping jaws that can clamp from 14 to 58 inches (0.36 to 1.47 m) either from the wheel’s inside or from the center bore. [6]

  5. PJ1 TrackBite - Wikipedia

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    PJ1 TrackBite (formerly known as VHT TrackBite or simply VHT) is a custom formulated synthetic resin, typically black in color, used in drag racing to either increase the traction of a car's tires or as a sealer for newly ground and/or resurfaced race tracks. [1] It stays sticky for weeks, has fire-retardant properties, and is hydrophobic. It ...

  6. List of auto racing tracks in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Hornets; mini cup, sprints, legends, focus midgets, figure 8, trains, trailer races, demolition derby, monster trucks, stock cars, modifieds, truck, pro 4's, super modifieds also connected is Drag Racing 1/4 mile and a MX Race track Shenandoah Speedway: Virginia Shenandoah: 0.375 miles (0.604 km) Oval (asphalt)

  7. Gear stick - Wikipedia

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    Steering wheel with column-mounted gear lever in a W 120-series Mercedes-Benz 180 Column shifter for an automatic transmission in a Ford Crown Victoria. Gear sticks are most commonly found between the front seats of the vehicle, either on the center console (sometimes even quite far up on the dashboard), the transmission tunnel (erroneously called a console shifter when the floor shifter ...

  8. Terminal tractor - Wikipedia

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    A terminal tractor Terminal tractor at the Port of Dover.. A terminal tractor, known in the United States as a shag truck, shunt truck, spotter truck, spotting tractor, yard truck, yard shifter, yard dog, yard goat, yard horse, yard mule, yard jockey, yard spotter, hostler, or mule, is a kind of semi-tractor intended to move semi-trailers within a cargo yard, warehouse facility, or intermodal ...

  9. Racing slick - Wikipedia

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    Drag racing slicks vary in size, from slicks used on motorcycles to very wide ones used on "top fuel" dragsters. For "closed wheel" cars, often the car must be modified merely to account for the size of the slick, raising the body on the rear springs for the height of narrower slicks, or replacing the rear wheel housings with very wide "tubs ...