Category Archive: DRIVETRAIN, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
Watching The Pakistani Truck Guys Rebuild A Clutch Disc With Simple Tools Is A Reminder Of How Things Used To Be!
They are No McLeod or Centerforce, but these dudes still get some stuff done. Watch this video and see just how a sprung hub clutch disc is stripped, and relined with new clutch material in a shop...
Rebeldryver’s Garage: The Intro Of The 400 Power Adder Small Block – Boost Ready Baby!
It’s time for Scott to get his 1965 Impala back on the road after years of neglect. But to do that means a new engine, new trans?, more power and even more fun. This is the 400 cubic inch...
Chopping The Top: Not Easy, But No Fear Is A Great Start, Watch This Henry J Get Shorter
I’ve never chopped the top on a car or truck. I want to, but I just haven’t yet. I’ve seen it done in videos and understand what needs to happen, but I also know that depending on...
Weekend Tech: Fitzee Shows How To Make A Fan Shroud For Electric Fans
Fabrication projects range from the simple to the most complicated on your average hot rod, muscle car, or custom build, and sometimes the more complicated ones get the best of us before we can even...
Edd China’s New Workshop Diaries Show Starts Right Here!
Edd China, the incredibly tall, talented, and quirky mechanic from the show Wheeler Dealers is on to new endeavors. After leaving the Wheeler Dealers show he went on to lots of other adventures,...
Alex Taylor Is Aiming For The 6’s In A Street Car, But It Won’t Be In Her Camaro
Alex Taylor has been going quicker and quicker in her leaf sprung, street driven, twin turbo LS powered Badmaro these past couple of years, but when she decided that she wanted to really step it up...
Size Matters: But How Big Is Too Big? Or Big Enough? Sizing Fuel Injectors For Any Power Level
Sizing fuel injectors for your latest hot rod or racing powerplant isn’t terribly difficult, after all there are plenty of suppliers who will tell you what to buy and why, and yet somehow folks...
Making Formed Carbon Fiber Parts At Home! This Is Super Cool And We Want To Do It!
We’ve featured Carbon Fiber fabrication videos from Street Bandito before, but this one is cooler yet. The process for building this small part can totally be replicated for something bigger,...
Repairing a 10,000hp Top Fuel Billet Engine Block – Not Horribly Hard, But Easy To Do Wrong
Aluminum top fuel blocks from Alan Johnson Performance Engineering, Brad Anderson Enterprises, and the like are all machined with “windows” that are thinner areas of the block that are...
The Car Hauler Trailer Rebuild Continues: Demo Is Done, Design Is Coming Along, And New Stuff Is Being Delivered!
They are back with Part 2 of the trailer rebuild and we can’t wait to see this thing come along. What’s the plan? Take one useable but not pretty gooseneck car trailer and add some living...
Richard Is On The Hunt For More Wrecking Yard Engines. Will He Find The Elusive Ameri-Barra?
Nobody does a better job of finding engines in the wrecking yard than Richard Holdener. He’s got a nose for it. Of course our very favorite late model wrecking yard helps because they have a...
They Sorta Made It! Day 6 Of The 5 Day C10 Build, Plus Every Installment Of Finnegan’s 5-Day C10 Build!
The lead in photo for the last video asks if they look tired, and my answer is “You better!” Cause if you are on a 5-Day build thrash and you don’t look wore out, then you either...
eBay Find: This 1,100ci All-Aluminum Ford GAF V8 Is A WWII Relic We Want To Own!
We have told you about the awesome Ford GAA V8 more than once around here but we still get excited when we see them come up for sale or appear in other random dark corners of the internet. This time...
