Ever since picking up my 2011 BMW 128i back in March, I’ve had incremental performance upgrades on the brain. Planning out what’s next has been daunting at times because I’m not used to owning a car ...

Installing stainless steel braided brake lines on the BMW K75 is actually a much easier task than I first imagined. There really isn’t much to it, and it’s my belief that anyone with a modicum of ...

Brake lines are among the most commonly overlooked items when people install a lift kit. Because a lift kit increases the distance between a vehicle’s axles and the frame, the brake lines need to be ...

If your car has low brake fluid levels (see “Checking Brake Fluid”), it usually means that there’s a leak somewhere in your wheel cylinders or your brake lines, which are the lines that run underneath ...

The front brakes on our street/strip 1967 Mustang's were pretty much toast. Although the pads still had plenty of meat on them, they were heavily glazed, and the rotors had developed hot spots, so ...

Ask any gathering of classic Ford enthusiasts what's the first upgrade they'd do on their project. They're liable to tell you that a disc brake conversion is at or near the top of the list. Front disc ...

Without proper experience, bending your own brake lines can be a daunting task. There's little room for error, meaning if you're not super accurate with your bends, the line probably won't fit up ...

While converting from drums to disc brakes on the front of many older cars is a sensible upgrade, irrespective of performance gains, we opted to install discs on the rear of our project wagon too. Not ...

Stainless steel brake lines are shiny. And a lot of us like shiny things. Still, there's got to be more to the desire to use stainless steel braided brake lines than just their aesthetic appeal. After ...

We bring all of our senses to task when riding a motorcycle — with the possible exception of taste! — to operate the machines below us and maintain a certain level of safety. It’s as if we become part ...