Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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AS SEEN ON TV Tools that Beat Yours: Are As Seen on TV Tools Better Than We’ve Been Giving Them Credit For?

AS SEEN ON TV! We’ve all fallen for the trap at some point or another and bought some kitchen gadget, tool, or “performance” part that had huge claims as to how wonderful it was....

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Here Are All The American Powertrain Shifter Fitment Options On TREMEC 5 & 6 Speed Transmissions For Your Project

Wondering if there is a way to get your Tremec transmission’s shifter to line up in your application? Have a weird one and want to move the shifter forward or back to make it just right? In the...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: How To Build A Custom Roll Cage For An FJ40 Land Cruiser

Shannon and Jess are back at it on the FJ40 this week and this thing is coming along nicely. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one might...

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HOW TO READ A TURBO COMPRESSOR MAP. WHAT IS THE MAX EFFICIENCY ISLAND? HOW MUCH BOOST & POWER?

Richard Holdener is back at it with even more fun turbo tech. While turbo sizes are pretty simple, compressor maps are not necessarily as easy to understand. If you have an engine that can use a 76...

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Halfass Kustoms Newest Project: Starting Work On The 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom

This project is one that Brent has had sitting around for some time and has just been waiting to get back onto it. It isn’t your average 1949 GMC, as it is mounted on a modified Caprice chassis...

PRI Show Photos: We Came, We Saw, And We Made A Dream List. Check Out The Cars And Parts Of PRI 2023

Here’s another batch of photos from the 2023 PRI Show and a link below in case you missed any of them. We’ve got more photos from the 2023 PRI Show in Indy. Man this place is full of epic stuff...

Daniel and the Crew at Powell Machine Show How To Rebuild Gen 3 HEMI Heads The Right Way. Valve Job, Surfacing, And Removing Broken Bolts

Powell Machine Inc. is known for building some pretty impressive engines, and for being experts in valve train and lifter technology, particularly in those classes of racing that require a flat...

Retro Awesome Video: Watch Ms Bigfoot Crush Cars and Sled Pull Back In 1986

This is some great footage. Captured at an event in Missouri, we are going to watch the famed Ms. Bigfoot Ford Ranger smash some cars and hook to the pulling sled. The first thing you’ll notice...

FLYWHEEL VS FLEXPLATE-DOES A LIGHTWEIGHT FLYWHEEL ADD ANY POWER? 45 POUNDS VS 16 POUNDS-WHO WINS?

In a lot of racing, folks are real big on the weight of their flywheels because it effects how the engine accelerates. But on a lot of occasions I’ve seen folks go with the lightest flywheel...

Finnegan’s Cummins-Swapped Chevy Square Body Roadkill Ramp Truck Hauls His New Race Trailer AND Blasphemi!

Finnegan has gone through a fair number of trailers and haulers in the past few years and on several occasions he’s talked about how heavy some of them have been to haul around. Well now...

DIY Engine Tech: How To Replace Valve Springs and Do A Budget Refresh On An LS Head At Home.

I know a lot of folks who get a junkyard LS and then start doing upgrades and are intimidated by the thought of replacing their own valve springs or cleaning up their own cylinder heads in general....

Brilliant Machine: Watch This 1890s Era Apple Peeler Get Restored And Used! Cool Stuff!

We know, we know. This thing makes to horsepower, it has no pistons, it doesn’t even burn fuel. BUT what a neat old machine this is, what creativity and engineering brains it took to design...

CHEAP, HIGH-RPM, 7000-RPM JUNKYARD 4.8L WITH STOCK SPRINGS! STOCK TRUCK INTAKE VS HOLLEY HI RAM TEST

No Springs Required. These are the magic words for so many folks interested in upgrading the camshaft in their LS engine. Cams aren’t cheap, and either are springs, plus most folks don’t...

Best And Worst Of 2023: Truck & Tractor Pulling Fails and Fires. Big Carnage On The Dirt!

I love carnage videos as much as the next guy, but when you want to talk about big parts flying out of things, there is nothing bigger than the stuff in pulling tractors. Whether it is a multi engine...

PRI Show Photos: The 2023 PRI Show Was Off The Chain, We Had Fun, And Here Are More Of Our Favorite Photos

Here’s another batch of photos from the 2023 PRI Show! We’ve got more photos from the 2023 PRI Show in Indy. Man this place is full of epic stuff that I’d really love to see under the...

New Wrecking Yard Inventory: 1950 Chevy Panel Truck, a Packard Clipper, 1972 Vega Station Wagon a 79 Olds 88 & a Mystery Chassis!

Chad is back at it, showing off more cool projects from his classic car wrecking yard in Kansas. Nobody Else’s Auto is one of those places that is never short of cool cars, trucks, and parts....

PRI Show Photos: The 2023 PRI Show Was Off The Chain, We Had Fun, And Here Are The Photos To Prove It!

We’ve got more photos from the 2023 PRI Show in Indy. Man this place is full of epic stuff that I’d really love to see under the tree or under the hood in 2024. The PRI Show is where everyone...

Great Film: This WWII Training Movie Explains A Bunch Of Weird Submarine Diesels – Double Acting, Opposed Pistons, More

This is a great video if you love learning about engines. Gong back to the time of WWII, it takes us through the basic design and operation of a few different types of diesel engines that were used...