Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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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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Happy 5/04! Let’s Celebrate the Workhorse Case 504ci Diesel Inline Six – Built To Last!

There’s no such thing as as 504ci factory engine, right? Wrong. The Case Manufacturing concern which is one of the most legendary names in American tractor and equipment history produced a...

Dodge 440 Long Ram Dyno Test – TOO MUCH Torque!

If you’ve never seen one of these long-runner Mopar Long Ram, aka cross-ram, intake manifolds then you are missing out. These things look so amazing in the engine compartment and quite frankly...

Homebuilt Boost: This Ratty Looking Dodge Dakota Has A Home Turbocharged 3.9L V6 And It Makes Some Power!

This is what hot rodding looks like right here. True knees and elbows, make it weird and fast hot rodding. You are looking at a weird little beast of truck that no one will ever really see coming at...

Vice Grip Garage NASCAR Truck: SO CLOSE To Firing Up The Race Truck (what a MESS) + Bonneville Updates!

Well, it got the big block, the turbo 400, some wiring, some body stuff, and more but it still needs a bit more love to get it up and running. and now it needs electrical, bumpers, and some kind of...

Helmet Sale: Simpson And Racequip Are On Sale Now! Quit Using A Crap Helmet.

I just got back from Holley’s LSFest West in Las Vegas and the number of people who are racing, or trying to race, wearing crappy helmets, or those that are NOT designed to be used in a car or...

STROKER LS VS DESTROKER-WHICH ONE WORKS BETTER, 340, 383 OR 416? ALL THE TORQUE OR ALL THE RPM?

Since the dawn of time there have been folks arguing about whether to make a big bore short stroke combo to spin at high rpm for big power, vs using a longer stroke and more cubic inches to win the...

Corrupting The Youth! Newbern Starts Restoring A 1984 Blazer For A 16 year Old Kid!

When your kid wants to drive a square body Blazer for his first car, then you have to be a bit proud. And Newbern’s buddy Brandon is in that exact boat right now and couldn’t be more...

HOW TO MAKE CHEAP, JUNKYARD BBC HP! NA VS VORTECH SUPERCHARGED GEN 6 454. INTERCOOLER & HEAD TEST

Richard has been on a roll lately, working on big block power of all kinds, which makes me happy as I work on planning for two different big block Chevrolet projects. In this latest one he’s...

Frostbite Sale: Save Big On Parts To Keep Your Hot Rod, Trucks, Or Racecar Cool!

Holley’s Spring Clearance Sale features all kinds of great stuff from their Frostbite brand of cooling system components. I run Frostbite in our 1,000 plus horsepower drag and drive car, daily...

How To File Fit Rings For Any Engine (And Some GM Gen V LT-Series Tips and Tricks)

Video Description: If you want to maximize performance when building an engine, then you need to be file-fitting your piston rings. If you are adding boost or nitrous, then absolutely MUST file fit...

Featured Product: Hi-Tek Deep Transmission Pans For Ram Trucks From B&M

Parts Description: Outfit your 2013-2023 1500 or 2019-2023 2500/3500 Ram Truck’s ZF 8HP-series transmission with a bigger and better transmission pan from B&M. A Hi-Tek deep transmission...

ARE LOW-BUCK BBC HEADS A GOOD DEAL? 1/2 THE PRICE BUT 1/2 THE HP GAINS! AFR VS SPEEDMASTER OVAL PORTS.

So, is the deal really the best deal? Is the cheaper part really the way to go? Sometimes, yes! But how about when it comes to a big block Chevrolet cylinder head comparison? We’re talking...

Tre5 Customs Twin Turbo C10 Feature: Low, With Twins, And Lots Of Attitude

The guys at Tre5 build some pretty cool trucks, and I always like watching their feature videos that come along when a project is ready to get delivered to the owner. These aren’t super sexy...

WHICH ONE MAKES MORE 5.0L HP, E7 HEADS & CAM 347 STROKER OR HCI 302? WHAT ABOUT WHEN WE ADD BOOST?

Is cubes always better? Or should you just make the engine size you have work more efficiently? Is adding heads, cam and intake improvements to your stock displacement small block the way to go or...