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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...
How To Install A Custom Firewall On Your C10 Truck. This One Is Custom And Cool As Hell
Firewalls are not very sexy pieces on your average vehicle. They just aren’t. In many cases it is what it is, and it doesn’t really matter because we are paying more attention to the...
Reverse Pattern, Dual Pattern, Or Single Pattern Camshafts, Which One Makes More Power?
What cam is right for your combination? This question will get more arguments than a political discussion, and that’s okay, but only if some of you realize you are wrong. LOL Sorry, but there...
Speed Secrets: Is The 305 Small Block Chevrolet Worth Hopping Up, Or Should You Just Step Up To The 350?
Is bigger always better? In engines looking to make the most power, then yes. But…does that mean you shouldn’t hop up your 305 if you already have one? Or that you should swap out the 305...
Fitzee Shows Us How To Build Rust Repair Panels From Scratch. This Stuff Isn’t As Hard As You’d Think!
Fitzee’s Fabrications is building a car that he calls Crusty, because it is just that. Because the car is getting built into a cool drag car, and a ton of the rusty crusty bits have to be cut...
What If You Could Have VTEC In Your V8? Would It Be The Ultimate Engine Combo? The Best Engine Ever?
V8 guys, and even some Honda guys, love to laugh and joke about VTEC, but anyone in the know, well, knows that VTEC is pretty bad ass technology who’s principles are incredibly simple to...
MAHLE Motorsport Introduces 2021 Racing Components Application Guide – 15 New Domestic and Import PowerPak and PowerPak Plus Kits!
MAHLE Motorsport just keeps giving it to us, and we mean that in the good way. It seems like the past couple of years have been full of announcements of new piston kits from the folks over there....
It’s On!!! Richard Holdener Took My 1,000 Horsepower Blown Small Block And Put It Up Against His Blown Big Block!
That’s right, my 400 inch small block up against a 496 inch big block, with both using the exact same blower and pulley combos to see who makes more power and what the differences are. With the...
Speed Secrets: Does Size Really Matter? How Much? Dyno Testing A 5.3 vs 6.0 Stock, Modified, And Stroked To See How Much Cubes Really Matter
Bigger is always better right? Well maybe not. Or maybe so. Hmmm, is the jury out? Maybe. In todays horsepower video Richard pits a 5.3 vs a 6.0 to see which one is best stock, modified and then...
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...
TorqStorm, Kenne Bell, Or Turbo Boost? Which Boost Is Best? These HEMIs Tell The Story
Boost is boost right? Well, if you just look at the number, in psi, without any regard for when that boost is made, and how much airflow comes with it, then yeah I guess boost is boost. But in...
DIY HiLift Jack Mods You Can Do At Home. This Is a Great Saturday Fab Project
If you’ve never used a H-iLift jack, it is very similar in operation to the bumper jacks that came in 1960s cars. That means that it is also sometimes just as clumsy. Of course the H-iLift is...
Tech Tip Tuesday…On Wednesday. How To Mount Your Oxygen Sensor On A Turbo Combo
How hard can it be to mount an O2, or oxygen, sensor? It just screws into a bung in the exhaust right? Well yes, it does, but if you don’t follow some simple rules of thumb, yours might not...
Home Built Sheet Metal Brake: This Is A Really Nice Brake That Anyone Would Be Proud To Have In Their Garage, And You Can Built It Yourself
I’m a bit of a tool junky, and as you all know I like building some of my own so that I can customize them to do what I need them for. Not always of course, but sometimes. Lets face it, tools...