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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Car Show And Racing Photos: Take A Look At All The Shows And Races We Featured This Week!

We’ve had so many shows and races featured here on the site this week, so I figured that on this cold and lazy Sunday I’d share all the events right here in one place for you to see if...

JUNKYARD FORD BLOWER SHOOT OUT! WHICH BLOWER IS BETTER? VORTECH VS KENNE BELL BLOWER-4.6L 2V TEST

Gotta Mod Motor in your ride? Want one from the junkyard? Which blower should you bolt to it to make real power? Or does boost work regardless? In this latest video from Richard Holdener you are...

New Product: MSD Ford 7.3-liter Godzilla and 2.0-liter EcoBoost Ignition Coils

When it comes time to add real power to your late model Coil On Plug, or Coil Near Plug, engine an upgrade can sometimes feel daunting. It’s not like the “old days” when you bought...

Derek At Vice Grip Garage Shows Us What It Is Like Setting Up and Using a FASTCUT Plasma Table for The FIRST TIME!

Every car guy wants to own a CNC plasma table, even if they don’t really NEED one. But some folks really do need them and they can make life such a pleasure when it comes to cutting out...

How To Rebuild A Stromberg 97 Carburetor – With Tech Tips And Tricks

The Stromberg 97 is arguably the first carburetor ever produced that had aftermarket “hot rod” support. It’s the go-to traditional performance carburetor for traditional...

JUNKYARD BBC SHOOTOUT (STOCK & CAMMED) -GEN-6 7.4L 454 VS GEN-7 8.1L 496. WHO MAKES MORE POWER & TQ?

We all know that Richard has tested junkyard big blocks of all kinds, from various generations of the venerable 454 7.4L, to the newer 8.1L 496. He’s tested them all stock, with camshafts and...

The 1955 Chevy Apache Pickup Rebuild: The ’55 Stroker Gets a DIY X-Pipe Exhaust

So much has been done to this truck to get it ready to drive all the way back to Canada, and man is it cool. In this installment, the exhaust is going together as this bad boy gets closer and closer...

HOW TO: CHEAP SBC MODS THE $1000 QUESTION? WHAT MODS ARE WORTH THE MOST POWER AND WHAT DO THEY COST?

So what does $1,000 get you if you use it right to upgrade your small block? We know that LS engines are all the rage, and with good reason, but there are jillions of small blocks out there in...

Low-Profile Exhaust Manifolds For Your Gen III Hemi Swap – Fit A HEMI In Anything With These!

If you have a project in need of a Gen 3 HEMI, and the fit is going to be tight, then these are the manifolds for you. There are a lot of Mopar engines that were pretty tight in the engine...

WHERE’S THE TORQUE? HOW CAN I MAKE MORE LOW SPEED TORQUE? WHO MAKES THE BEST LOW-SPEED TORQUE CAM?

What’s a torque cam? What do I need to do to get the right cam to make big low end torque in my junkyard ls? The answer might surprise you, because there is no magic science in a camshaft that...

Gearhead Video: The Restoration Of This Weirdly Awesome 100 Year Old Ball Shaped Electric Motor Rules

We all seemed to have loved the recent restoration video about the Maytag gas engine last week so it is only right that we follow it up with something even more interesting and different. The...

ARP Says: Read The Instructions! The Best Fasteners In The World Need Proper Installation

We all know that ARP makes the finest high performance fasteners in the world. We have toured their shop, shared their stories, used their products, and talked to you about why these things are just...

RPM vs TQ-WHAT WORKS BEST? THE 480-HP TEST, HIGH-RPM, LOW TORQUE 5.3L OR LOW-RPM, BIG TORQUE 8.1L?

Here it is, the LS vs Big Block shootout that you guys have been asking for. Richard Holdener is going to show just how these two engines compare given the fact that they make nearly identical...

How To Install Holley’s New Floatless Fuel Level Sending Unit: GAME CHANGING NEW PRODUCT! Replace Your Existing Fuel Sender with Holley’s Revolutionary Easy Level Fuel Sender

Half the time that you install a universal fuel level sending unit it works out perfectly. The other have of the time you are trying to put on into a tank that has a weird shape, or is super shallow,...