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Let Professor Dulcich Teach You How To Find Top Dead Center For Your Engine Building Pleasure
We love good tech videos here and we think that it’s cool Steve Dulcich has his own YouTube channel and it making some fun stuff for people to watch. A little while back we showed you his video...
LT Asks: The Actual Cost of Turbocharging a Big Block 8.1: Should I have built an LS instead?
I’m a big fan of LS engines, and they are all the rage, but some people can’t stand them because they ARE so popular. Some think there is no other engine on earth that can compete with...
Ron Covell’s Rollation Lessons Part 2: Yes, You Can Use The Rollation Method To Make Complicated Rectangular Patters Too!
Yesterday we shared the first in a video series by famed sheet metal shaper Ron Covell, where he teaches a pattern making method he calls Rollation. The process is simple, absolutely makes sense once...
Building Twin Turbo LS Headers From Scratch For The Extreme Blazer Project!
The Motion Raceworks Extreme Blazer build is on! In this video you’ll see how they design and fabricate the custom turbo headers for this thing, from scratch! And while that does sound like a...
Junkyard Stock Bottom End LS T4 VS T6 S480 Turbo Test. Which Makes More Power And Where?
Bigger, bigger, biggest, biggestest, and biggerestest. That’s been the mentality on turbos the past few years, especially in the drag racing world where twin turbo setups often feature turbos...
You Can Make Power Level Adjustments With Just The Flip Of A Switch Using Holley EFI And Here’s How!
If you attend any drag racing event in the country nowadays, you will find drivers and crew chiefs making tune up changes in the pits and in the staging lanes, by simply choosing between a couple...
Tech Tip Wednesday: Weight Bias, It’s Not What You Think Anymore!
Back in the day drag racers did everything they could to get as much weight on the rear tires of their cars. With the wheels in the air, traction was at it’s highest, and cars would haul ass....
Watch The Kalitta Motorsports Blower Dyno In Action! It Takes A Small Block Chevy Just To Spin This Thing Up For Testing!
Call it a blower, call it a supercharger, we don’t care, but what we do care about it how much power it takes to spin one for a top fuel engine and how much air those suckers can, well, suck...
How To Build A Roll Cage At Home: This Video Is A Step By Step Guide To The Entire Process. Watch And Be Inspired.
If you have moved your project along to the point where you need or want a roll cage, then there are several options for making that happen. If you are not the type to do some cutting and welding...
Built It Or Boost It? The Most Common Question I Get Asked About LS Engines. But This Time It’s A 5.0 Ford.
In this era of boost every junkyard combo possible, the number one question I get from people is what to do to their engine before adding boost. Back in the day, anything over 5-7 lbs meant that...
Mechanized Mayhem: Stevie Fast Jackson Teaches You All You Need To Know About Mechanical Fuel Injection
If Stevie Fast Jackson came onto the scene as a guy people knew for his quick wit, funny videos, and ability to talk trash while kicking butt, the now know him as something else. Jackson has...
Ever Seen A New Roots Blower Go Together? This How It’s Made Videos Shows You Step By Step
If we were to rank the age of hot rodding power adders, the Roots blower is the granddaddy of them all. Originally developed as a pump for moving air into mines and blast furnaces by a pair of...
Mild To Wild: 700 And 1,000 Horsepower Gen 3 HEMI Builds You Can Do Too!
Our boy Richard Holdener is back at it, and this time he’s making big power with late model Gen 3 HEMIs. In recent years, with the development of the Hellcat platforms, Mopar has made...
