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LS Swap A Square Body Part 3: Halfass Kustoms New Square Body Chevy Project Gets A New Hydraulic Clutch For The NV3500 And More
It’s kind of nice when you have a collection of Chevrolet trucks and SUVs that are sitting with their LS engines and transmissions just waiting to become donors for other projects, and that is...
Vice Grip Garage Frankenstein Duster Part 2: Derek Is Building His Duster And Giving It Away! It Is ALIVE and it Sounds SO GOOD!
If you missed Part 1, use the link below to check it out and listen to how awesome the Duster sounds! It’s getting some muffler tests, which we totally approve of. Derek at Vice Grip Garage is...
SKETCHY “Frame Off” Restoration On The World’s Worst 1957 Chevrolet – At Home Body Swap With NO TOOLS
Dan is calling this the world’s worst ’57 Chevy because there is nothing on it that isn’t rotten or bent or something. Of course that just means there is plenty to do which means...
CHEAP, JUNKYARD ALUMINUM 5.3L LH6-WHAT WENT WRONG? COMPLETE TEARDOWN AND INSPECTION…PLANS TO FIX!
So what happens if you go to the wrecking yard and find that dream aluminum 5.3 L33 or LH6 engine and then you put it into your ride only to find it has low oil pressure? I mean all these junkyard...
LS Swap A Square Body Part 2: Halfass Kustoms New Square Body Chevy Project Gets The Engine Installed, The 5 Speed Too, And Other Tweaks!
It’s kind of nice when you have a collection of Chevrolet trucks and SUVs that are sitting with their LS engines and transmissions just waiting to become donors for other projects, and that is...
LS Swap A Square Body Part 1: Halfass Kustoms New Project! Picking A Donor From Behind The Barn, And Pulling Parts To LS Swap A ’74 Chevy Pickup
It’s kind of nice when you have a collection of Chevrolet trucks and SUVs that are sitting with their LS engines and transmissions just waiting to become donors for other projects, and that is...
Abandoned For 30+ years: Iron Trap Garage Saves A Barn Find 1939 Ford Convertible
The Iron Trap boy always seem to find the coolest stuff, and with good reason. I mean their gig is finding amazing original parts and then liberating them so that other people can use them to make...
CAN YOU RUN REC-PORT LS3-STYLE HEADS ON A SMALL BORE 4.8L/5.3L? WILL REC-PORT HEADS EVEN FIT A 4.8L?
Which cam and which heads are probably the two most asked questions about an LS build, and the amount of info on the web can sometimes be daunting. Lucky for us, we have Richard Holdener who tests...
Dylan McCool’s BARN FIND 1977 4×4 Ford – Will It Run And Drive After 20 Years? Or Will It Be A Flop?
When you get the opportunity to grab a one owner dent side Ford F150 4×4, and especially one that has been sitting inside a barn for 20 years, you take it. This truck is cool as hell, has the...
Polishing Turds Season 2: Part 5 – Boring And Honing Cody’s ProCharged 360 Cubic Inch Small Block To Make Big Power!
In the fifth episode of this new Polishing Turds engine project, Pete is going to be boring and honing the cylinders so this little supercharged small-block will make more power. This is just one...
HOW TO BUILD LS POWER ON THE CHEAP: THE ULTIMATE 510-HP, ALL MOTOR JUNKYARD 5.3L BUILD. STEP BY STEP BUILD & FULL DYNO RESULTS
Junkyard 5.3s make real power regardless of how many miles are on them. I mean a 200,000 mile 5.3 will make 350 horsepower on the engine dyno. But what happens with simple bolt ons? And how about...
*Prototype* FLEX Compact Cordless Impact Wrenches Battle It Out With Milwaukee & DeWALT
Cordless Impact guns are arguably one of the handiest cordless tools you can put in your tool box. And with more and more and more brands out there, at all price levels, it’s amazing how some...
Feel The Luv! New Junkyard Inventory: Late 70’s Era Chevy Luv Pickup Truck! How Did The Grill Survive The Impact?!?!
Nobody Else’s Auto is back at it with some new inventory, and Chad’s got a special addition in this video. A Chevy LUV truck that somehow survived and has a grille that is in near perfect...
Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion: Cutting down a FREE 1976 GMC dented LONG BED into a dent free SHORT BED!
Puddin is back at it, this time with a beat up 1976 GMC long bed pickup that he wants to convert into a short bed. And as funny as it sounds, this isn’t something that he’s every done...