Category Archive: 1320 Engine Tech, 1320 Project Cars, 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Tech Story, BangShift 1320
This Engine Makes More Power Than Newbern Has Ever Had! HED Beer Money Engine Build, A Day At The Races, And More.
Newbern’s Drag and Drive Fox-body Mustang is cool, but the previous engine combo just didn’t work out as well as he had hoped, so it was time for some newfound power from HED. HED stands...
Crashed LS Turbo Drag And Drive Car Gets Rebuilt: The Maliboom Still Needs Lots Of Welding Even Though It Just Came From The Chassis Shop!
Building cars takes a lot of work, and when you are building a race car that amount of work often becomes next level. The reason is because the fancier the chassis setup the more welding and...
Should Newbern Actually Consider Trading His Race Car? God Only Knows What’s Going To Happen…
Newbern is lucky as hell, because he recently got to hang out with our friend Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, for a tour of the collection as well as a visit to his annual swap meet. Tommy has...
This Old Hot Rod Traditional Style Drag Car Project Part 8: The Vintage Dragster Gets Front Shock Mounts In Preparation For Some Speed!
It’s getting exciting!!! In this video update on the Vintage Dragster project, it gets front shock mounts and more after coming off the chassis table to sit on the ground for the first time in the...
IS AN AFTERMARKET CHASSIS WORTH IT? FINNEGAN IS BODY SWAPPING HIS 1957 CHEVY GASSER.
Body swap, chassis swap, whichever you call it, it involves putting a car onto a new chassis either for repair, a performance improvement, or both. I did my first in 2005 when I swapped my 1956 Chevy...
Crashed LS Turbo Drag And Drive Car Gets Rebuilt: The Maliboom Gets A Sexy New Rearend AND Comes Home From The Chassis Shop!
Here’s another Maliboom project update and boy is this car coming right along. In the two videos below you are going to see a sexy new rearend housing come together, along with the last of the...
This Old Hot Rod Traditional Style Drag Car Project Part 7: The Vintage Dragster Gets A Mid-Plate And Comes Off The Chassis Table!
It’s about to get exciting!!! In this video update on the Vintage Dragster project, it gets a mid-plate and then comes off the chassis table to sit on the ground for the first time! Plus the...
Crashed LS Turbo Drag And Drive Car Gets Rebuilt: The Maliboom Gets A Bunch More Love! Suspension, Trans, Turbos, And More!
The Maliboom is getting way more than it was ever supposed to, but man is it going to be a bad ass! If you missed it, Dane Thompson’s Maliboom smacked the wall in Oklahoma during Rocky Mountain...
This Old Hot Rod Traditional Style Drag Car Project Part 6: The Vintage Dragster Gets Front Hubs, Engine, Trans, And Seat Placement!
This cool vintage dragster project is going to be something fun, that’s for sure. As simple as it is, there are a lot of steps to making it right and lucky for us we get to see each and every...
This Old Hot Rod Traditional Style Drag Car Project Part 5: Narrowing A 9 Inch For The Vintage Dragster Rear And Installing Front Suspension
The Race of Gentleman has spurred a bunch of renewed excitement for traditional hot rod drags both on the dirt and sand, as well as on the dragstrip. They didn’t invent these events, but they have...
Crashed LS Turbo Drag And Drive Car Gets Rebuilt: The Maliboom Get’s A Front Suspension Redesign And Rear Upgrades Too!
If you missed it, Dane Thompson’s Maliboom smacked the wall in Oklahoma during Rocky Mountain Race Week a few months ago and he’s been thrashing on it since. Despite lots of conjecture, it turns...
This Old Hot Rod Traditional Style Drag Car Project Part 4: Check Out This Vintage Dragster Build As The Chassis Work Continues!
The Race of Gentleman has spurred a bunch of renewed excitement for traditional hot rod drags both on the dirt and sand, as well as on the dragstrip. They didn’t invent these events, but they have...
This Father, Daughter, And Son, Funny Car Go-Kart Project Isn’t Pretty, But It Might Be With A Little Oven Cleaner And Elbow Grease!
Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is back at it with another project to save and this one is going to make you smile. It’s an old funny car go-kart, with the Pepsi Challenger livery, that he...
This Old Hot Rod Traditional Style Drag Car Project Part 3: Check Out This Vintage Dragster Build! About As Old School As It Gets
The Race of Gentleman has spurred a bunch of renewed excitement for traditional hot rod drags both on the dirt and sand, as well as on the dragstrip. They didn’t invent these events, but they have...