Category Archive: Hack of the Week, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
TIG Welding Stainless To Aluminum? Wait What? How To Bond The Two Like You’ve Never Seen Before
Jul 14, 2021Chad Reynolds2
When it comes to tig welding, you pretty much can’t argue with 6061.com because the dude is a master and laying down strong and sexy tig welds. The projects are always fun, the techniques cool,...
Simple, Cool, And Effective Mobile Welding Table Project You Can Do At Home!
Jul 14, 2021Chad Reynolds1
You know I have an affinity for welding tables and fixture tables around here and this is a super cool one that you can build at home no problem. It’s being built with some scrap stuff as...
Bolt An 8-Speed Transmission In Your Gen III HEMI Swapped E-Body!
Jul 13, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Bolt An 8-Speed Transmission In Your Gen III HEMI Swapped E-Body!
Gen III HEMI Swaps are all the rage, and slamming one into your E-Body Mopar is a great power and performance improvement, but deciding which transmission to run and how to fit it in the car have...
Video Of Rob Wendland Front Halfing Larry Dixon’s Top Fuel Dragster: Sounds Simple, But It All Has To Be Perfect!
Jul 12, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Video Of Rob Wendland Front Halfing Larry Dixon’s Top Fuel Dragster: Sounds Simple, But It All Has To Be Perfect!
It isn’t uncommon for Top Fuel and Top Alcohol cars to get front halfed after a certain number of runs, a crash, big wheelstands, or what have you. The same could be said for a Funny Car...
What Should You Paint Your Roll Bar Or Roll Cage With? Rustoleum, Hammertone, And Steel-It Tested
Jul 12, 2021Chad Reynolds1
There is nothing worse than finishing a car with a roll bar or roll cage in it and then not being able to paint the cage well. In all honesty, a tube chassis car is usually much easier because you...
Grinding Inside Corner Welds Isn’t Hard, But It Is Easy To Mess Up!q
Jul 12, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Grinding Inside Corner Welds Isn’t Hard, But It Is Easy To Mess Up!q
Grinding seems like a pretty simple thing, especially when it comes to prepping a joint for welding or grinding a weld smooth. With that said, I’ve seen jillions of people do it wrong and the...
How To Pin The Crankshaft On An LS Engine. (NO MORE SLIP = MORE BOOST AND HP) FULL RESULTS
Jul 11, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on How To Pin The Crankshaft On An LS Engine. (NO MORE SLIP = MORE BOOST AND HP) FULL RESULTS
LS engines have a press-fit harmonic balancer, damper, whatever you want to call them, and they are an interference fit that requires a balancer installer to put one on and sometimes a hydraulic...
The Chicken Coupe: Pro-Touring Cadillac Coupe Deville Project Continues! Suspension And Brakes!
Jul 11, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on The Chicken Coupe: Pro-Touring Cadillac Coupe Deville Project Continues! Suspension And Brakes!
We ran the first video on the Chicken Couple project yesterday and told you that more was coming. Well here is video number two. There are going to be a lot more videos and a lot more content coming...
Alex Taylor’s Quest For The Sixes 1955 Chevrolet Project: Driver’s Compartment Fitted And Steering Working!
Jul 11, 2021Chad Reynolds1
There is a ton that goes into making something that is going to run 6’s in the quarter mile, even if it is just a pure race car. But if you are going to do that with a street car, with steel...
An Electric Subaru Brat? Okay, This Is An Electric Vehicle Swap We Think Might Be Real Fun!
Jul 10, 2021Chad Reynolds4
The idea of taking a gas or diesel-powered car and making it electric intrigues me. I think it would be a fun project and have been thinking about a few different fun cars to do the conversion on. Of...
Check Out This See Through Carburetor Working In Ultra Slow Motion!
Jul 10, 2021Chad Reynolds1
So just to be clear, this is NOT a Holley 4-barrel or something. This is a little single barrel carburetor like you would see on a small engine on your minibike or lawn mower. But the way it works is...
Using A Cement Mixer To Clean A Gas Tank: Edd China’s Workshop Diaries Might Be Going Off The Deep End
Jul 10, 2021Chad Reynolds5
A cement mixer? Hmmmm. Think about it and it starts to make some sense, especially if you watched the last episode where Edd was trying to get the rust out of the Range Rover gas tank. He put a bunch...
Pro-Touring LS Swapped Cadillac Coupe Deville- Introducing The Chicken Coupe, A Project That Excites Me To No End.
Jul 10, 2021Chad Reynolds1
The Chicken Coupe has been a long time coming and is a project that I am behind 100%. After all, good friend Matt Graves is the one behind this craziness and he’s been involved in some...
Holley Carb Tuning Tips And Tricks With Steve “The Carb Whisperer” Brule From Westech Performance!
Jul 09, 2021Chad Reynolds3
Steve Brule is the smartest dyno operator and tuner I’ve ever seen or heard about. There, I said it. Are there other incredibly talented tuners and operators out there? Of course! Are there...





