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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...

FINNEGAN IS GIVING AWAY HIS 1957 CHEVY WAGON, BUT FIRST HE’S GOTTA FIX IT! Gasser Time!

The cat is out of the bag by now with the fact that Finnegan is going to give away his 1957 Chevrolet station wagon gasser. You can enter by using the link below, but suffice it to say you will be...

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...

Crashed LS Turbo Drag And Drive Car Gets Rebuilt: The Maliboom Needs Some Love, And It’s Going To Get A Lot More Than That!

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,...

HUGE WHEELIES AND BROKEN PARTS: DID FINNEGAN GET BLASPHEMI READY FOR DRAG WEEK 2024!

Finnegan has been making big changes to Blasphemi this year, all in preparation for going out and running big numbers at Drag Week 2024. We’re talking horsepower, suspension, clutch,...

SACRILEGE! FINNEGAN IS RIPPING OUT THE STRAIGHT AXLE AND SWITCHING BLASPHEMI TO A-ARMS!

Holy Crap! What the hell is he thinking? Finnegan has decided that the solid front axle in Blasphemi, while great for the gasser looks he’s after, are not doing it from a handling perspective....

New Mods for Blasphemi, Finnegan’s Hemi-Powered 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air! Lots Of Little Things To Make This Thing Even Better Than Ever!

Blasphemi, Finnegan’s awesome blown Hemi powered 1955 Chevrolet is a special machine and we dig it. So does Finnegan, and he’s been giving this thing a lot of love over the past two years...

Street Freak – Part 2: Tube Chassis Fabrication Starts! Twin Turbo Lambo Powered, Mid Engine, 25.2 Drag And Drive Volvo!

Here’s the second video in the series, where the real work starts as the tubing starts being cut and fit for a layout that can only be described as awesome. I can’t wait to see this thing...

Murder Nova Burnout Truck – Build Series Part 2: It’s Going Back Together After Paint, And Then It’s Time For The Power!

It sure wasn’t pretty, but they got that part in the works and now it’s time to get some suspension under it! It’s time to build a burnout truck and that’s just what they are going to...

To Squat Or Not To Squat: How Does a Drag Car Suspension Actually Work And Are You Doing It Wrong?

Drag racing suspension is no different than any other suspension system in that it works on physics. The physics behind a drag racing suspension system vs a road racing suspension system differ in...

Derek Still Has To Do The Ford 9″ Rear end, Radiator, and Ignition for Liberty! Can they still make Sick Week?

They are thrashing like mad in this next video in the series, as they try to get ready for Sick Week and they still have much to do! Derek is back at it, with a big block swap that has to happen if...

World’s Worst 1957 Chevrolet: CHEAP And EASY – 1 Day PRO STREET Upgrade For The Worst 1957 Chevy

We’ve been sharing all the build videos on this DD Speed Shop 1957 Chevrolet project and it’s getting close to done after a jillion hours of welding in dozens of free patch panels. But...