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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Will This 40 Year Old RV That Derek Bought SIGHT UNSEEN, RUN, DRIVE And CAMP 850 Miles Home?

Derek from Vice Grip Garage has had some pretty interesting adventures on the road behind the wheel and underneath some pretty interesting rides. He is the king of taking the gamble, but he nearly...

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EFI Tech: Here’s How To Use Holley’s Built In Output Testing Feature For Terminator X, HP, Dominator ECUs

Unless you are a professional EFI tuner, you probably don’t know all the features that are included in one of the new ECUs that are available today. Hell, even if you are a professional you...

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Cool Video: Watch Big MAN Truck Engines Get Assembled From The Block On Up – Inliners AND V8s!

While the German MAN brand of trucks may not be familiar to Americans, they are huge over in Europe. The company started making locomotives in the 1830s and has been an industrial giant ever since....

Watch This Backhoe Operator Deftly Lower Himself Into A Storm Runoff Channel

Backhoe operators come in all shapes and sizes. There are the guys who rent them from a local place to dig a hole in their backyard and end up hitting a gas main, there are the guys who run the...

Winning: This Guy Has An Engine Dyno In His Living Room And He Actually Uses It

Most of us at one time or another have done some sort of automotive job in a place where we probably shouldn’t have. Maybe we washed parts in the dishwasher, rebuilt a Holley on the dining room...

Video: This Electronically Fuel Injected, Dual Overhead Cam, Miniature V10 Is Incredible

We have showed off some absolutely killer miniature engines here before but this one may actually take the cake. You are about to see a 1/3 scale miniature V10 engine fire up, idle, and get revved on...

Watching This Massive CNC Machine Create A Crankshaft Out Of A Piece Of Billet Is An Amazing Study In Technology and Engineering

As gearheads we’re naturally attracted to machines and all things mechanical, right? Well for us there is no higher form of mechanical life form than the CNC mill. These things come in an array...

Diesel Power Challege 2017 – Meet The Competitors And Check Out The Dyno Action!

Back in early June I hung out with a group of cool trucks and cooler guys as they participated in the 2017 Diesel Power Challenge. This is an event put on by Diesel Power Magazine where they solicit...

Hidden Gem: We Find And Check Out One Of The Coolest Old Garages In Wisconsin

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Here in the Midwest when you have rug rats, vacation means the Wisconsin Dells. When the little darlings grow up and move out, the adults go to Door...

This 1985 Jeep CJ7 Is A Rig Done Right – May Be Late In The Season But We Want It!

I have always wanted a CJ Jeep. Growing up as a child of the 1980s I saw them everywhere and I thought their looks were awesome. In fact, when their square lens headlight replacements showed up the...

Skipping On The Water At Night: Formula Offroad Showing Off In Tennessee!

Motorsports is a worldwide phenomenon, with different areas of the world seemingly fixated on a particular discipline. In the States, we tend to think of ourselves as the center of the universe in...

This Turbocharged Chevrolet Tahoe Could Be The Best SUV Option Out There!

Confession time: for the last couple of weeks, the wife and I have been looking at a potential vehicle change. Considering that our fleet has one full-size pickup truck, one four-door hot rod, one...

America’s Weirdest Truck Is For Sale – VTEC Swapped 1970 C60 Makes Our Soul Ache

So hey, this wounds my soul. BangShifter Austin Irish found what has to be the most insanely wrong truck in America. This one hits way too close to home as it involves one of my favorite body styles...

The Sherp Is A Weird And Unstoppable Russian Truck

We’re way late to the party on this thing but we had to tell you about it because it just so freaking amazing and BangShifty. This is the Sherp, ATV developed in Russia for people who want to...

Hydraulic Press Channel Goodness: Thermal Camera Catches Stuff Being Crushed

The Hydraulic Press Channel delivers again. There’s no end to this man’s creativity and frankly there is no end to our love of watching stuff get squashed flat by a press that exerts like...

The Grappler Police Bumper Is Pretty Brilliant – Watch This Thing Literally Snag Cars and Trucks!

(By Greg Rourke) – We’ve all seen the PIT (Precision Immobilization Technique) used to stop fleeing criminals on countless reality video TV shows. While it looks cool, it usually damages...