Hot Rod, Custom and Dry Lakes Racing
Terminology 101 (References)

stovebolt: Slang (only slightly derogatory) for the inline, six-cylinder Chevrolet engine. The term derives from the tact the cap screws holding the sump and front timing gear cover.

streamliner: Pre-WWII designation of cars whose bodies were special-built and didn't qualify to run in the stock-body roadster class. The cars in this class had narrow bodies and exposed wheels (circa 1939). After 1949, when three full-bodied streamliners appeared (Lee Chapel, Xydias and Batchelor, and Howard johansen's twin-tank), the class included only those cars with full envelope bodywork. The open-wheeled cars then became referred to as Lakesters.

stroker: engine with a crankshaft stroked above normal (See Stroking).

stroking: Regrinding of the rod journals to move their center further away from the rotating center of the crankshaft, thereby increasing the stroke and swept volume of the cylinder.

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