We were chatting up a gearhead buddy recently who is into the old stuff…like the real old stuff. This dude has real vintage parts like a Kong ignition,a pile of ancient Thicksun intake manifolds and he is on the hunt for a set of first run Ardun heads. The guy is like a parts detective [...]

Freiburger and Finnegan are back with another episode of “Roadkill” their off-kilter adventure show where they do neat and humorous car stuff. Essentially we revel in their pain and suffering. We’re ok with that. This time the guys drive a 1969 El Camino that has been in Finnegan’s family since brand new to  the Sparks, [...]

We have featured some cool engines and cars from the shop of Tom Nelson, but this one may take the cake. Using a CAD designed, billet aluminum block, a set of his “mirror image” twin turbos, and his “alien intake”, along with a bad ass set of cylinder heads, this wild Hemi cranks out 2500hp [...]

Admittedly I screwed the pooch yesterday. It was 4/26 and I did not include one iota of cool Hemi or Max Wedge stuff on the blog. The Mopar guys let me have it with some Grade A hate mail. Thankfully, their angry yelling reminded me that today is a kick ass gearhead date as well, [...]

The Ford SOHC Hemi is one of the most vaunted and amazing products of the muscle car era. It is also the ultimate expression of Ford’s FE engine family. The wild cast iron heads were developed in just 90 days by Ford engineers when it became clear that they had nothing for the Chrysler Hemi [...]

We saw a link to this video posted over at YellowBullet and thought that the BS world would want to get a look at one of the weirdest and wildest dragsters we have laid eyes on in a good, long time. The traditional rear engine dragster looks to be about the length of a “normal” [...]

To answer your first question, no, that header is not painted orange. To answer your second question about how a 180ci straight six makes 1250hp, well that one is easy. Lots and lots of glorious boost! We found this video while trolling YouTube and it is pretty bad ass. The engine is a Nissan six [...]

While Speed Week at Bonneville is still some months away, that doesn’t mean we can’t lust after cool LSR machinery. This video shows the Kohler Racing “Street Roadster” entry on the chassis dyno back in 2007. The engine is the previously mentioned Ardun-headed Ford and it makes some glorious noise on the way up to [...]

As we all know, one of the biggest pieces in being successful with building your own high performance engine is attention to detail. The details of keeping your work space clean and organized, the details of measuring, checking and rechecking everything, and the details of going the extra mile in doing it right all the [...]

Holley’s Avenger, HP, and Dominator EFI systems all have self learning capabilities, meaning that once you install the hard parts, you can literally fire the engine up, drive around, and the system will teach itself how much fuel to be feeding the engine as you go down the road. This is one of the many [...]