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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Using Two Pickup Trucks To Tear The Cab Off A Third Truck May Be Crude, But Wow Is It Effective!

Typically the “best” way to do things is the “right” way to do things. This is usually because the “right” way to do things is less fun and requires some sort of...

Ever Seen One Of These? This 1947 Crosley Pickup Truck Is As Astonishingly Stock As You Think It Is

It is always cool to see something that you have never laid eyes on before. In my case that’s this 1947 Crosley pickup truck! I have seen the goofy little Crosley “fire trucks” I...

Is There Anything Cooler Than Vintage Wheel Dozers? This Collection Of Vintage Photos Proves That There Isn’t!

I know that I am not the only freak for old heavy equipment around these parts and I’ll admit to keeping this awesome website in my back pocket for a while but now it is time to share it with...

Dirt Every Day Beats On A Chevy Avalanche In The Snow! Big Engine, Big Tires, Big Carnage?

Go big or go home, that’s what we hear all the time. Well, for this episode of Dirt Every Day, Fred and Dave went big: from the back catalog of 4Wheel and Off Road is a 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche...

The CJ5 Go-For-Digger – A True Mighty Mite (With Video of One In Action!)

People can knock Facebook all they want, but I’m into it. This post about what has to be the coolest freaking factory Jeep ever comes from a tip BangShifter Jeremy George sent me on FB. What...

From The Junkyard To The Dyno – Watch This Massive EMD Locomotive Engine Get Rebuilt and Tested

This is not the fanciest video but it is pretty awesome when you consider the subject and the circumstances. You are looking at a monster EMD 645E7 engine. This is a 16-cylinder monster with each...

The Combo Of A Rock Bouncing Buggy And Monster Truck Tires Is The Best Idea Of The 21st Century

There’s a good chance that we’re wrong about this but it seems to us that rock bouncing is to off-roading kind of like radial and small tire racing is to the drags. It is a wild off-shoot...

Mothers Of Invention: A Video Bonanza Featuring The Weirdest Home-Brewed Snow Plowing Vehicles We Could Find

I honestly like winter. I mean I hate the no racing part, the fact that it is dark by the time lunch is over, the days where doors of cars are completely frozen shut, and the fact that I have to say...

This Video Showing The History Of Every Unimog Ever Is Amazing – Historical Footage

Our constant fawning over the mighty Mercedes Unimog is not unfounded. These trucks were designed to be a “do all” vehicle for farmers after Germany was getting its act back together...

Ever Wanted To Dyno Your Boat With The Engine In It? These Guys Invented A Way To Do It

Many days I try to use my brain like a random number generator for ideas that result in blog entries. Lots of times that leads me down interesting rabbit holes, sometimes it leads me down dead ends,...

King Of The Cab Overs? The Iveco-Astra Line Of Trucks Is Built To Dominate Loads And Terrain

Remember Iveco trucks? Scanias and Ivecos were pretty commonly seen in the USA up until the middle 1990s or maybe even a little after that when both brands removed themselves from the market in the...

Fun Video: How To Go To Space Explained (Using The 1,000 Most Common Words In English)

Space, the final frontier! I’ve always wanted to type that. Anyway, we’re here on a Sunday and we found a fun video that explains how people go to space using the 1,000 most common words...

Screaming Tank Video: A British Chieftain Tank Bounces Off the Red Line

If we had a tank like the guys in this video do, we’d use it exactly like they do. Crushing stuff has to be lots of fun, especially when you know that every inch of the vehicle doing the...

This 1957 Ford F-800 Is A Rare Four Wheel Drive Beast – Ever Seen One Before? We Haven’t!

If you have ever wanted to see what the Holy Grail looks like for fans of classic and historic trucks, you are very well looking at it here. If not the only one, it certainly is one of them because...