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How To Rebuild A Holley Carb, Part 1. Keeping It Simple. Anyone Can Do This!
While EFI is the hot topic nowadays, and we’re fans of some of the cool stuff it can do for us, there are jillions of cars and trucks still running around with carburetors on them. I own a...
THE TWIN-TURBO 540 BIG BLOCK IS IN FINNEGAN’S 1961 CADILLAC!
Oh yeah, it’s time to get things rolling! The Caddy is getting the newly finished 540 cubic inch Big Block Chevrolet stuffed into it so that the twin turbos from Nelson Racing Engines can fit...
FINNEGAN FIXED HIS 632CI BIG BLOCK CHEVY WITH JB WELD!
If you didn’t know, Finnegan bought a new drag boat last year and was planning on racing the hell out of it in California and the western states. On the first outing, after the boat had been...
TIG Welding Basics With Karl From Make It Kustom – SIMPLE Tips & Tricks How to Get Started
I watch all of Karl Fisher’s videos, because his YouTube Channel “Make It Kustom” is all about shaping metal and I dig it. But there is also a lot on the channel about welding, and...
The Fab Forums Fox Body Project: Doing A Factory Mini Tub Build Part 3
Watch Part 3 of the mini tub install now. In the previous installments, Kyle put together a cool tube front end that replaces all the inner bumper and chassis structures, and then he built a bad ass...
New Product, And How To Assemble It: The Speedway Motors Sheet Metal Mock Up LS Engine!
If you haven’t seen Speedway Motors new sheet metal, bolt together, LS mock up engine block, you are in for a treat. And sources close to the project say that there are small block and big...
Tool Review: Is This Hand Tool The Budget Solution For LARGE WIRE CRIMPING?
Very often we find ourselves working on a project wishing we had some fancy tool that would make life much easier. Unfortunately, those fancy tools usually cost a lot of money so you don’t buy...
Can You Reuse Rod And Main Bolts? Torque To Angle And Torque To Yield, Everything You Need To Know About Fasteners On Gen V GM Engines
I remember building some of my first engines, using parts we had in the garage, which included used rod bolts, main bolts, and head bolts. We weren’t building big power combos, or things under...
How To Build A Chassis Table That Will Fit In Any Garage!
Every hot rodder that does any kind of fabrication has at some point drooled over a killer welding fixture table or chassis table. We all have, even when most of us have no room for that kind of...
It’s A Tuning Circus! HED’s Peter Harrell Was Tuning A Ton Of Cars At Lights Out In Georgia
Peter Harrell is no stranger to tuning multiple cars per weekend at events, but it is getting to be like a tuning circus with all the running around he’s doing. The good news is that his brain...
Vice Grip Garage Prepares The Vanishing Paint Challenger For A 1,000 Mile Road Trip On Sick Week.
Derek and the gang just got back from an awesome week in Florida and Georgia for Sick Week, and man it was drama filled. What you didn’t get to see, was all the prep work that went into making...
Engine Tech: How To Install Cam Bearings In Your LS Engine At Home
Our friend Jefferson has started up a new YouTube channel to show off what he’s got going on over at his shop Red Dirt Rodz, and one of the first things he’s sharing is a full-build series for an...
Sick Week 2023 Finals! Peter Harrell At HED Is Tuning Up Some Race Cars!!!
With Eric Yost and Stefan Gustaffson are both good at winning at Drag and Drive events, not only separately but also together. This year’s Sick Week had both of them in the hunt for wins in...
