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Good News: Strutmasters.com Extends Sponsorship With Justin Ashley  

One of the rising young stars in the world of top fuel drag racing, Justin Ashley announced that Strutmasters.com has renewed the sponsorship agreement that saw the company prominently displayed on...

Begrudgingly Good: Looking Back To The 1994 Chevrolet S-10 And GMC Sonoma

I will tell anybody who will listen that, to date, the biggest pile I’ve ever owned was a 1999 Chevrolet Blazer three-door. Not even the Chevrolet Cruze that ate about half of it’s value...

This Is The Deadest Small Block Chevy In History – Bottom Blown Out Of Block – Guts Hanging Out!

(Photos by Rob Kozak) – If you are a reader of drag racing stuff around the internet, you’ve most likely seen Rob Kozak’s byline. He writes for a couple different publications and...

Engineer The Quit Out Of It: This Tour Of The Optima Battery Manufacturing Plant Is Amazing

This is one of the coolest videos that highlight the manufacturing end of a product that we have ever seen. Not only do we get a peek behind the curtain of the manufacturing process for Optima...

The Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport Is All Internal Combustion, All The Money, and Not That Bad On Gas!

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you have a spare four million dollars lying around? Do you care about fuel economy? If you do, you would be buying a Ferrari FXX K, Porsche 918 RSR, or a Mclaren P1 GTR...

NHRA Insider Podcast: The Funny Car Strongman And Some Big 2020 Numbers

Matt Hagan joins Brian Lohnes on this week’s episode of the NHRA Insider podcast and talks about his 2020 NHRA Camping World Funny Car Championship season. The ups, the downs, the motivating...

Killer Coyote: Watch As A 315ci Ford Coyote Engine With A 3.8L Whipple Blower Makes 2,000+ HP On The Dyno

Chris Holbrook is known far and wide in drag racing circles as a guy who can build basically any combo of engine into a beastly class mangler. I have personally seen his work in a multitude of drag...

The Desert Truck Of Your Mopar Dreams: This Dodge Bodied Class 8 Baja Truck Is Nearly Done – Unique And Awesome!

Chad’s usually the certified Baja racing freak around here but when I laid eyes on this model done, Dodge bodied class 8 Baja truck I could not stop staring. The project was started and nearly...

Not A Supercharger: This All-Billet Four Rotor Engine Build Is Awesome And Wild!

It was 1991 when Mazda won the 24 hours of Le Mans with their famed C787B race car which was powered by a four rotor version of the company’s rotary engine called the 13J (also built as the...

Ratty Muscle Cars presents Mopar Vs. Brand X 2020: Sending The Year Off With Screaming Engines

The one thing that stands out about Ratty Muscle Cars events isn’t that the cars are wicked fast, or that they are just rough versions of dream machines. It’s that they are used and not...

Spin Cycle FTW! Check Out This Collection Of AWD Donuts!

Up until the last couple of years, the only AWD vehicle that I had ever spent a good amount of time actually driving it was a black Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. It belonged to an aunt, and every now and...

Meet The Man Who Built A Replica Of An Audi Quattro S1 E2 So Well That Racer Who Drove It Got Goosebumps

In late 1985, Audi unleashed the Sport Quattro S1 E2. Or, in simple terms, the wildest, most violent form of the Audi Quattro rally car to be set loose in World Rally, period. After having endured a...

Intake Intensity Video: Watch Four Intake Manifolds Get Tested On A 600hp LS Engine

This video is a total model of speed and efficiency. You are going to see four LS intake manifolds run in about five minutes and all four of them have their performance data included from the dyno...

A Longer Long Block: The Hagerty Buick Straight Eight Gets A Head – One Step Closer

The saga of the Hagerty Buick Straight eight build is not over yet but it’s moving in that direction. This engine has been a protracted battle from the jump and the cool thing is that the...