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Dyno Video: A 1500hp 428ci Windsor Ford From Nelson Racing Engines

Posted in ENGINES October 10, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

It is always fun to peek in on the Nelson Racing Engines channel on YouTube to see what the dudes and dudettes at NRE have going on. We found this recent video, showing off the new 428ci Windsor Ford small block engine the company is offering with twin turbos and it makes a mind blowing [...]

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Videos: 609 Supercharged Conley Precision Stinger Big Block On The Stand And In A Fuel Dragster

Posted in ENGINES October 5, 2012  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

If you don’t like V8 engines, then BangShift probably isn’t the place for you. Don’t get me wrong, we dig 4 and 6 cylinders as well, depending on the circumstances, but in general V8s are where it’s at. So when Neal Sabo sent us this cool video of the Conley “Stinger 609″ we couldn’t stop [...]

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Video: Comp Cams Coverage of Popular Hot Rodding’s Engine Masters 2012 – Dyno Pulls and Legends!

Posted in ENGINES October 4, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

As we reported yesterday, Comp Cams is on the scene and shooting great video all week from the 2012 Popular Hot Rodding Engine Masters competition being held in Ohio. They’re really cranking out the content with great interviews, screaming dyno video, and even breaking some news on new products and components that will be hitting [...]

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Video: Watch A Twin Turbo 507ci Cadillac Air Boat Engine Get Tuned With Holley EFI – Frankenstein Greatness!

Posted in ENGINES October 4, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

There’s no doubt about the fact that the EFI revolution is on these days. From the drags to the mud bogs and as this video proves, to air boats, everyone is jumping on the wagon of fuel injection. In this video you’ll see a 507ci Cadillac engine with twin turbos (which are not plumbed into [...]

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Video: The 2012 Engine Masters Challenge Is ON and Comp Cams Is There to Cover The Action! Learn the Ins and Outs Of The Competition Here!

Posted in ENGINES October 2, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Popular Hot Rodding’s Engine Masters Challenge has become the defacto yearly slugfest for professional and otherwise hardcore engine builders every year. This year the folks at Comp Cams TV are there and will be sending video updates of the action all week. They just posted this one today and it is a great introduction to [...]

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Video: Comp Cams Explains Camshaft Technology

Posted in ENGINES September 25, 2012  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

Comp Cams has got some great new videos up that explain some of the often misunderstood concepts behind camshaft technology. In this video “Comp Cams Technology Explained: Cam Timing” they help clear up some of the mystery. Check it out and let us know what you think. For more information on Camshafts for your application, [...]

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Watch a 408ci, 700hp Naturally Aspirated Ford Cleveland V8 Scream to 7,200 RPM

Posted in ENGINES September 7, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Australia is a land of the Cleveland Ford V8. It seems like every guy with a classic Ford down there has one shoved in the front. As such, there are engine builders in the land of kangaroos who are well versed in cranking out big time power from the famously free breathing mill. In this [...]

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Eargasm Video: An Awesome Collection of Exhaust Sounds From Exotics to Hot Rods to Modern Muscle Cars!

Posted in ENGINES August 28, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Our pal and video maven Jason Lewis is back with another great piece of work. We’ve showed you Jason’s kick ass V10 Maverick project, some of the work he has done with stuntman Mike Ryan and his wacko Freightliner truck, and other cool video work from his portfolio before. This time Jason has focused on [...]

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Watch A Twin Engine Triumph Land Speed Bike Make Dyno Pulls – Awesome Noise From Two Triumph Engines!

Posted in ENGINES August 9, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

The bike you’ll see in the video below is currently on the way to Bonneville for Speed Week 2012. Built by Lowbrow Customs of Ohio, it features not one, but two Triumph engines. The guys at Lowbrow are calling the bike 1955 Triumph, but obviously extensive modifications have been made to the chassis to accommodate the two [...]

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Watch a Turbocharger Violently Explode During a Dyno Pull – Flying Sharpnel! Duck and Cover!

Posted in ENGINES August 9, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

With more and more turbochargers being bolted onto drag cars, street machines, hot rods, trucks, and in this case, old school import cars, there are going to be more and more videos like this hitting the internet airwaves. Here we see a second generation Toyota Supra with a Toyota 2JZ straight six swapped into it. [...]

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Watch the Guys at Induction Solutions Fly A Manifold Off the Bench With Nitrous Pressure!

Posted in ENGINES August 6, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Horsing around at the shop has long been a staple of the high performance and hot rodding community. In fact, lots of awesome stuff has come from such sessions of mechanical debauchery. Outside of the normal stuff like igniting acetylene filled trash bags, zapping people with charged condensers, and other such booby traps, there’s also the whole…umm…non [...]

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Screaming Dyno Video: Jay Brown’s 530ci, 850hp, Fuel Injected, FE Ford Drag Week Hammer!

Posted in ENGINES August 6, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Jay Brown, he of FE engine building, home dyno owning, awesome Ford drag machine fame will once again fly the Blue Oval banner at Hot Rod Drag Week 2012. This time it is an aluminum, 530ci, fuel injected mill that’ll power his car of choice. We don’t know what that car of choice will be [...]

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Hilarious Video: Freiburger and Finnegan Bolt A Blower On to a SBC Powered Jag and Pound On It Mercilessly

Posted in ENGINES August 6, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

The newest episode of Roadkill the web-show that documents the wacky adventures of David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan from Hot Rod Magazine was released last Friday and this one is pretty damned good…dare we say the best one yet. Instead of wanton destruction, the guys actually shell out $1,000 for a small block Chevy powered 1974 [...]

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Insane Dyno Video: Nelson Racing Engines Unleashes a Twin Turbo, 632ci, 2200hp Dyno Destroyer!

Posted in ENGINES August 1, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

The other day we asked you, “How much horsepower is ‘enough’?” The responses varied from pretty normal estimates of 400-500hp all the way to the guys who want a top fuel engine in their street rod. Well, we found a new video from California’s Nelson Racing Engines that splits that up nicely. In this 15-minute [...]

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Watch a Drag Race Engine Make a Dyno Pull From 8,000 to 10,100 RPM!

Posted in ENGINES June 25, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

There’s nothing like the sound of a V8 engine at about 10,000 RPM. It is the kind of music that we love to listen to. Yeah, Formula One engines spin themselves harder than that but let’s be honest. Those things sound like air tools from Hell. A 480ci V8 at ten grand doesn’t sound like [...]

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Watch a Reher-Morrison NHRA Super Stock Hemi Scream to Almost 9,000RPM on the Dyno

Posted in ENGINES June 13, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

This is some glorious noise! We recently discovered that world famous engine building company Reher and Morrison has a YouTube channel that they are posting dyno videos on. They have a few of them up there now, but we think that this one is top shelf material. Rehr and Morrison build engines for everything from [...]

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