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Rubber Duck: Finnegan Spent $88 Bucks on Carb Jets and Added Nearly 100HP to His Barnfind Pontiac Firebird!

I’m sure he’s wishing he’d been there before the recent dragstrip testing, but after not getting the Rubber Duck to run the way he wanted in his previous video, he hit the chassis...

PORTED M90 BLOWER TEST-HOW MUCH POWER IS PORTING REALLY WORTH? CAN THE JUNKYARD M90 MAKE 650 HP?

Does porting a blower really make a big difference in power numbers? Guys have been having it done for years, but many of them just go by the word of the guy porting them. And there are plenty of...

Liggett Starts His First LS Engine Build! Did He Buy A Good Used Engine Or A Bad One? The Teardown Never Lies!

Scott Liggett, aka Rebeldryver, has been hot rodding small block and big block Chevrolets for a long time, and while he’s worked on some LS stuff while he was at Blueprint Engines and on other...

Making 500HP with an $800 Dollar Junkyard Truck Engine And Then Throwing It, And A Tremec 5-Speed, In The 1964 Nova To Thrash!

Making 500 horsepower with a junkyard LS takes very little work, and gives huge return on investment when it comes to smiles. When you add an American Powertrain TKX 5-speed swap to the mix,...

JUNKYARD HORSEPOWER BATTLE- RICHARD HOLDENER TALKS DYNO TESTING RESULTS: BBC VS LS-LET’S TALK TECH

In the modern hot rodding and racing world it sometimes seems like the only thing that anyone wants to power their machines with is an LS, and for good reason. I mean these engines have great...

These Two Mustangs Have Been Parked for 42 Years! Will Jared Be Able To Make Them Run and Drive?

Barn finds that have been sitting for decades are cool stuff, especially when someone can work to get them back up and running without a restoration. But they aren’t always the coolest cars....

Will Dennis Taylor’s 1941 Willys Project Live Again? Pulling Apart The Blown 392 Hemi To See What’s Wrong Before The Rebuild.

This one is going to be fun, not only because it is a cool car that Dennis and Deb put together years ago, but also because when Dennis and Alex started tearing into it to find out what the problems...

Newbern Bought An Old Jr. Dragster For His Kid, It Needs And Engine And The Brakes Are Junk. So He’s Putting An Engine In It!

Yep, Newbern is making sure his kid Luke is ready for the racing life and that meant grabbing a Jr. Dragster that came available for cheap. The engine on it was junk, so he’s making other...

Kalitta Motorsports and Toyota Racing Give A Rundown On Top Fuel Engines With This Bitchin Cutaway Engine Display!

Toyota Racing and Kalitta Motorsports teamed up to take a Top Fuel engine and do a cutaway version so people can really see the inside of one of these beasts. It’s funny, because even a lot of...

LT Engine Tech: Whether You Are LT Swapping Something Old, Or Have An LT Powered Hot Rod, Here’s How To Install A Catch Can On A Gen V LT1

As cool as Direct Injection can be, there are some things about it that make certain maintenance a requirement. If you aren’t familiar, DI is where the fuel injector is inside the combustion...

LS ROLLER ROCKERS VS CAM SWAP-WHICH ONE ADDS MORE POWER? HOW MUCH HP ARE 1.85 ROLLER ROCKERS WORTH?

Rocker arms are considerable less work to replace than a camshaft, even on an LS engine which is a lot easier to cam swap, so if they are worth the same power as a camshaft then why not just do the...

Will It RUN AND DRIVE 900 Miles Home? LEGENDARY 70’s Built Ford Drag Car – Vice Grip Garage With Tony Angelo!

When Derek Bieri finds a great ride he’s never one to hesitate in making it his. But usually they are cars that have been sitting forever and that need some love to run and drive again. This...

MAXIMUM 4.8L POWER-TURBO, BLOWER & (CHEAP) NITROUS. HOW MUCH HP DO THEY ADD TO THE LITTLE 4.GREAT?

I literally just got off the phone with a friend of mine yesterday when he was talking about his 5.3 LS engine build and the 425 horsepower that he wants to make, and where I told him that all LS...

WHAT ARE THE BEST 4.8L POWER MODS? HEADERS vs CAM vs INTAKE vs HEADS, CAM & INTAKE! MAXIMUM 4.8L HP

There are lots of LS parts available, and it has never been easier to build real horsepower, but which mods are the ones you should actually spend your money on if you are hopping up a 4.8? Nobody...