Hip To Be Square: This 1977 Chevy Promotional Film For The K5 Blazer Has It All, Even The Blazer Chalet!
We kind of wish we had a backyard full of late 1970s K5 Blazers. Why? Because we’d be freaking billionaires. The money that these trucks are commanding now is just insane but hey, people are...
Restoration Video: Seeing The Process of Bringing A Vertical Steam Engine Back Is Mesmerizing
Now this is what we call a payoff! A few weeks ago we showed you the first part of a Hand Tool Restoration project involving a small upright steam engine restoration. That part was mostly getting the...
Who Makes The Best Mechanics Tool Set? Testing Shows Some Clear Winners, Check Them Out Now.
Between the Torque Test Channel and Project Farm, we’ve seen tons of tool testing. Ratchets, sockets, screw drivers, and pliers have all been put through their paces to find out who makes the...
Video: The FoxJet Was The 1970s Mini-Corporate Jet That Was Set To Change The World, But Didn’t
There are certain ideas that come along which make perfect sense, seem to have the right people behind them, and then ultimately evaporate into nothing for varied reasons. Well, the FoxJet is kind of...
WHAT IS THE BEST LS INTAKE UNDER BOOST? SINGLE PLANE vs DUAL PLANE BLOW-THROUGH DISTRIBUTION TEST!
I’ll never forget the first time I was in a dyno cell while testing an engine with 8 oxygen sensors. Instead of just having one or two, which is the norm on most of what we work on around here,...
Video: Here’s The Best Twin Stick Big Rig Video We Have Ever Seen – Explanation and Operation
Over the years we have showed you a multitude of videos featuring truckers running twin-stick big rigs down the road. Some of them have been funny, some of them painful, but none of them have been...
Amazing Video: Watch A Guy Turn An Automotive Air Conditioning Compressor Into A Running 3-Cylinder Engine!
A short while back we showed you a wild video where a guy took the little compressor from a refrigerator and made it into a little working engine. It as fun and crazy and required a lot of brains to...
Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – Gas Tank, Brakes, Driveshaft, And MORE!
In this latest video there are lots of other details getting handled, like a driveshaft, brakes, fuel system, and more. In the first video we shared the shortening of the bed and chassis to convert...
Old Tech: This 1940 Video About WWII Piston Aircraft Engines Is Awesome – Internal Engine Tech, History, More!
Warning, you have to be a hardcore dork to love this. Warning, you have to love engines to love this. Warning, you will love it. This video is a study in the typical types of aircraft engines seen by...
Extreme Engineering: Take A Ride Across The 120 Year Old, 800ft Tall Gokteik Viaduct Railroad Trestle
Our first reaction upon seeing the Goteik Viaduct train crossing was “no thank you” and then we read more about it and became enamored with its history so we’re kind of wanting to...
Don’t Think It Would Be Fun To Drive A Pulling Tractor? This Video Will Change Your Mind
While I realize that for many people, tractor pulling stands as a kind of enigmatic activity. Something that seems so basic and straightforward that it couldn’t possibly be hard or require much...
Here Are The 10 Best Products Tested By Project Farm in 2023? Let’s Find Out Which Things Are Worth Using!
We follow Project Farm around here and often share videos when the tested products are things we think you will dig. He tests lots of tools and automotive repair products as well as equipment...
SINGLE PLANE VS DUAL PLANE, WHICH INTAKE OFFERS THE BEST AIR FUEL DISTRIBUTION? FULL DYNO RESULTS!
Years ago Freiburger and I spent the day on the dyno at Westech to see how nitrous worked with a single plane vs dual plane intake manifold. To test it we sprayed the same shot on the same engine...
