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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Ignition Tech: How Ignition Timing Works – Vacuum and Mechanical Advance Explained. Simple, But Often Misunderstood

Several years ago I did a bunch of videos for MSD covering several different tech subjects, but one of the videos that still gets tons of comments and views, was one I did showing how to lock the...

BIG THROTTLE BODY-DO YOU NEED IT? TBSS INTAKE THROTTLE BODY TEST-78MM TRUCK VS 92MM FAST WHO WINS?

Everyone is always going for the biggest throttle body and the biggest cam and the biggest headers they can find, but a lot of times that isn’t the right choice. But how do you know? Is a...

The Grind Hard Giant Trike Project: Part 6 – Building the World’s Biggest Big Wheel Continues! The 3×3 Monster Trike Gets More Custom Fab

We’ve shared the first five parts of this build and can’t get over everything that is going on here! This is a full on project that is not for the weak of heart. This is going to be something...

Building a BUDGET Engine Part 2: Will The Boost Ready Budget 406 Small Block Chevrolet Run Or Grenade? First Start!

Everybody in the hot rodding world today is all about the power you can make for relatively cheap prices, and most of that comes from the LS engine platform. I mean a stone stock 200,000 mile 5.3...

Intake Filters TESTED: Does More Dough Equal More Flow? How Bad Do Cheap Auto Parts Store Filters Flow?

I love this video! The Torque Test Channel is always putting up great tool testing videos, and we share them often, but every now and then they put something up like this which is just scientific...

Mega Diesel TOWING Drag Race Video: Chevy vs Ford vs Ram Truck Shootout – Which Is the FASTEST Towing HD Truck?

The diesel wars between GM, Ford, and Ram have been well documented, celebrated, and criticized for nearly three decades now. With the advancements in power and torque, and the ever increasing size...

Welding Table Tech: Here Are Some Must Have Accessories For Your DIY Fixture Table That Will Make Welding Projects A Dream

Welding tables, fixture tables, and fabrication tables are some of our favorite DIY projects around here and I’m always looking at home builds or kit builds that come along. The Fireball Tools...

Featured Product: Upgrade The Braking Ability of Your Late-Model Truck or SUV With Baer 6T Brake Kits!

Big wheels, big tires, and big heavy loads all contribute to less than perfect stopping in many late model trucks and SUVs, but with Baer’s 6T brake kits you’ll get better stopping power...

What Happened To All 68 Of The CARS OF ROADKILL GARAGE? Freiburger Talks About Where They All Went And Why!

Hot Rod’s Roadkill Garage was the show that had Freiburger and Dulcich working on some pretty epic, some pretty strange, and some pretty awful muscle cars, hot rods, and more. Love them or hate...

Building a BUDGET Engine Part 1: Can You Really Build A Boost Ready 406 Small Block Chevrolet On A Budget?

Everybody in the hot rodding world today is all about the power you can make for relatively cheap prices, and most of that comes from the LS engine platform. I mean a stone stock 200,000 mile 5.3...

Oil Tech: Do 1951 to 1996 Classic Cars And Trucks, And The Muscle Cars We Know And Love, Actually NEED Special Oil?

We’ve been told for decades that anything with a flat tappet camshaft, and in general any of the engines we know and love from the 1950’s through the 1990’s, needs different oil...

Vice Grip Garage Derek and Finnegan Finish Their Car Trade and Derek Drives Finnegan’s Wife’s Twin Turbo Jet Boat!

Derek Bieri driving the twin-turbo jet boat that belongs to Mike Finnegan’s wife may not be a smart move. I mean he already has enough of a car, truck, and tractor habit, he certainly...

Westen Champlin Brought 10,000 Redneck’s to HIS Home Town For a Party! This Is One Hell Of A Horsepower Rodeo!

Westen Champlin is a wild man. I’ve had the pleasure of working with him when he made a guest announcer appearance during Holley’s Moparty one year, and LSFest another. I’ve known...

Keep Your Drag And Drive LS Engine Cool And Happy! Meziere Expands Its Offering Of Pumps For LS Engines With This Billet Mechanical Beast.

If you aren’t familiar with the name Meziere, you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere. They build some of the finest water/coolant pumps on the planet, in both mechanical and electric...