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Happy 4/08! Celebrate With The Sounds Of Angry Stroked Chrysler Small-Block!

The standard Chrysler 360 measurement is a 4″ bore coupled with a 3.58″ stroke. It wasn’t a bad mill out of the box, but when you compare it to the 340, an engine with a reputation...

Here’s Who Is Going Into The NHRA 4-Wides At Las Vegas Sunday In The Top Spots

The inaugural 4-Wide Nationals at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway has been a huge hit and has had some pretty impressive performances on the absolutely brand new dragstrip. All four lanes have...

BangShift Project Files: The DisAstre Is Fresh Out Of The Paint Booth!

Forum member “Hoffbug” has been busy on his project car, a 1977 Vega that is using the nose and tailpan from a 1976 Pontiac Astre and parts from a Cosworth Vega. The idea is to run an...

A 720 Horsepower RZR? Are You Serious? This Thing MUST Be A Riot… And Scary!

There is no doubt that the side by side UTV market has changed dramatically over the last few years. They have more and more power, bigger and bigger suspension, and price tags to match. Hell, you...

Have An 8.8 Rear You Want To Narrow At Home? Here Is One Low Buck Low Tech Way To Do It

The 8.8 rear is one strong, readily available, and affordable rear end that is perfect for MANY projects. And because they came in so many different cars and trucks over the years they are in...

Which One Of These Two Common Statements In Car Listings Pisses You Off Most?

People are stupid. Or at least some of them are. What makes me shake my head and want to choke someone is when I’m looking at a Craigslist ad for a car and see certain ambiguous or downright...

Here’s How One Man’s Love For Fuel Altereds Put One In His Garage Against All Odds

When Evan Hardie sent me an email a week or so ago talking about his cool altered, I thought it was the normal submission that we get all the time. That didn’t make the car any less cool though...

Here Are Friday’s Top Qualifiers From The Inaugural NHRA 4-Wides At Las Vegas

This weekend marks the first NHRA National event on the 4 new lanes at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and the action has already been hot and heavy, just like you would expect from an event in...

ChallengerFest 9 Will Have A Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Up For Auction Courtesy Of Racing4Vets!

Friday, April 13th, 2017 kicks off ChallengerFest 9 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. If you have any kind of positive feeling for anything modern Mopar related and you haven’t checked out the...

Progressive Controller, Man! Watch This Buick Regal Pogo-Stick Down The Strip!

Remember what a turbocharged car was like thirty years ago? You started off slow as the engine worked it’s way through the lag and when the boost came on, you had better know how to drive,...

Morning Symphony: The Sound Of Complete Reckless Abandon From The Burnout King Competition

I’ve done it drag racing, I’ve done it road racing, and I didn’t have a choice when it came to land-speed racing: that’s playing the safe card so that the car I was running...

We Dig Little Trucks That Haul Ass, And This LUV Is Both Little And Fast

Minitrucks are cool. They come in all kinds of shapes and styles and no matter which kind you like you’ll find a jillion different examples to drool over. I’ve been a minitrucker for most...

More Work On Mighty Car Mods’ RB-Swapped 240Z: The Multicultural Engine And The Turbocharger

The Nissan Fairlady Z that the Mighty Car Mods brought to Australia from Japan had a few things missing…the engine, transmission and brakes, to be specific. Those parts had to be replaced from...

Watch The Moser Engineering Triple Crown 25’s Bracket Races LIVE Today!

If you are looking for great live drag racing to watch today, then look no further than all this free live streaming video coverage of the No Limit Promotions Moser Engineering Triple Crown...