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Stay In Shape: This Video From QA1 Talks About The Importance Of Off-Season Suspension Maintenance For Drag, Street, and Circle Track Cars
If there is one part of racing and really hot rodding in general that does not get the attention that it deserves, it is maintenance. Keeping your parts, pieces, and car working the way it should...
This Welding Table Project Is Great For A Small Shop, And Allows It To Multitask Too
I’ve been welding for decades, and whether you weld for fun, for work, or as part of your other hobbies, there is nothing more useful than good tools and machines. But no matter how good your...
Testing The Borg Warner S480 Turbo On Three Different LS Combos And One Man Motor Big Block Chevrolet
The Borg Warner S480 is one hell of a turbocharger, capable of supporting big power and doing so with incredible reliability. We’ve made way over 1,000 horsepower with them on all kinds of...
Godzilla Dyno Fun: Brian Wolfe Rips A 446ci Godzilla With Ported Heads, A New Cam, Intake, Calibration – Big Power
Brian Wolfe’s work with hot rodding the Ford 7.3L Godzilla V8 engine has been awesome. We have seen a load of different things so far and most of them have been a little outside the parameters...
How To Convert A 4-Door Tri-Five Chevy Into A 2 Door In Your Garage.
I didn’t grow up as a Tri-Five Chevrolet guy. I always thought they were cool, but they were never “Me” until I stumbled upon a ’56 Wagon a jillion years ago now and ended up...
Cheap Turbo Combos! Is This Ebay GT45 Clone The Best Turbo Ever?
If a $163 turbocharger sounds awesome to some of you, and scary as hell to others, that’s okay. You are our people. On the one hand getting something like this that cheap just makes you giggle...
Beer Money’s Money Maker: This Profile Of The Engine In Everyone’s Favorite Ratty Mustang Is Awesome
The Beer Money Mustang is well known around the world of drag racing. The car that was built by guys like Pete Harrell, Eric Yost, our own Chad Reynolds, and Lyle Barnett went from a reality show...
How Do I Know How Big My Fuel Injectors Need To Be? Richard Holdener Gives You The Simple Math Lesson So You Can Figure It Out Yourself!
Sizing injectors for your engine is NOT rocket science, but it is crazy how many people question and argue and worry about injector sizing for their combinations. The math is pretty simple actually....
Not A Supercharger: This All-Billet Four Rotor Engine Build Is Awesome And Wild!
It was 1991 when Mazda won the 24 hours of Le Mans with their famed C787B race car which was powered by a four rotor version of the company’s rotary engine called the 13J (also built as the...
Watch Noonan Race Engineering’s Screw Blown Billet LS Engine Make More Than 2,100hp On A Safe Dyno Tune
We remember when the crew at Noonan Race Engineering came to PRI a few years ago and displayed this incredible all-billet LS engine that was wearing a massive screw supercharger. It was a show...
Do Gen 3 Hemis Make More Power With An Aftermarket Cam? Of Course. But Which One Makes More? Early or Late Gen 3? Watch
With incredibly rare exception, swapping out the stock camshaft in an engine for one with more lift, duration, and different cam timing will make more power. But do similar camshaft upgrades make...
Want To Make Your Classic Mopar Handle? This Video From QA1 Gives You The Best Suspension Upgrades!
Not all cars are created the same and thank the heavens for that, right? Imagine if we were all just doing the same stuff, using the same parts, and dealing with the same engineering strengths/flaws...
There’s A New 5-Speed In Town! Out With The TKO And In With The New TKX!!!
Introducing the newest, and ONLY, 5 speed transmission designed strictly with swaps in mind. This is the Tremec TKX. Honestly, this one has not been easy to keep under wraps. Security was so tight...
Check Out Ryan Tureck Getting His 11,000 RPM Judd V10 Dyno Tested In England – This Is Going In A Supra!
If you follow Ryan Tureck, you know the guy has always managed to build some cool and different cars in which to attack the drift course with. This guy has had multiple 1,000hp drift beasts and...