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Category Archive: ENGINE, ENGINES, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos

Shop Shenanigans: Can The Iron Trap Garage Crew Get This Unknown 331 Cadillac Engine To Run??!!

I love all the cool old iron that the guys at Iron Trap Garage are always finding, because most of their stuff is at least 20 years older than the muscle car stuff I mess around with most often. What...

Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – CHEAP REPAIRS. Basic Patch Panel How To With A MIG Welder

This cool low buck shop truck build is turning out really cool and we dig it. If you missed it, the long bed became a short bed, using the stock bed with the smallest of cuts and welds so that the...

Vice Grip Garage Frankenstein Duster Part 4: FIRST DRIVE! Patching Floors and NEW INTERIOR For The Giveaway Duster!

In this installment of the Vice Grip Garage Giveaway Duster you are going to see some floor patches happen, interior go in, and a first drive! Will it smoke the hides off the Cragar wheels? This...

How to Remove Rust – 6 Easy Ways to Protect Bare Metal With Willomet Motor And Fab’s 1970 Dodge Charger

We’ve all had to deal with rust repair on a project before, but what about the rust that shows up when you start working on something with new metal? I’m talking about two months into...

MOST POWERFUL LS3 INTAKE EVER? SUPER RICHIE DUAL-PLENUM, ADJUSTABLE RUNNER LENGTH AND PLENUM VOLUME

One thing some of his casual fans may not realize is that Richard Holdener has not only done all the testing and tech stories for magazines and websites for decades, but has also done a LOT of...

Building our first customers roll cage for his C10: what we charged & how much profit we made! The Right Tools And Methods Are Key!

Video Description: In this video Matt and Kevin show you how to build a cage to fit a C10 Chevy truck. We start with a custom fitting while the customer is in the C10 truck. To do this we used our...

Did Project Farm Waste $4,000 For A DIY Transmission Rebuild Kit? Or Is This Smart Money To Spend?

Transmissions are one of the things that enthusiasts seem most hesitant to build on their own. Whether you are talking about automatic or manual transmissions, and whether a newbie or the most...

Forgotten Javelin Race Car: OOPS! We Broke it… 401 Powered, Big Tire, AMC Javelin Drag Car’s Hardest Launches Yet!

Rather than just grab this car and make it run and then head to the track, they have been methodical about making sure everything in it is okay before going out and beating on it. They have done this...

COYOTE VS JUNKYARD LS-WHICH MAKES MORE HP? 5.0L YOTE VS 5.3L LS, STOCK, HCI MODIFIED AND HIGH RPM!

If you take brand loyalty out of the equation, can you really put an LS and a Coyote up against each other head to head to see if one of them really is a better engine than the other? In this video...

Worlds Worst 1957 Chevrolet: Market Place Mistake – FREE Motor BIG Problems! Worlds Worst 1957 Chevy

Dan is still at it and to keep with the theme of this 57 Chevy being the worst one on earth, he decided to power it with a free engine he found on marketplace. How well do you think this is going to...

Finnegan’s Garage Track Visit: Testing Doesn’t Go As Planned, Because Blasphemi’s First Test Pass Shuts Down the Dragstrip.

Finnegan is back at it and unfortunately things didn’t go as planned for Blasphemi’s recent dragstrip testing. This beast is making more power than it ever has and unfortunately that...

Bello’s Kustoms Is LS Swapping A Merc! How To Perform An LS3 Swap on a 1950 Mercury

While Bello’s builds what are usually traditional customs, at least from a visual standpoint, they do tend to LS swap things a lot because they are all about driving them. Every hot rod that...

Rebeldryver’s Project Updates! 1964 Galaxie gas gauge fix! Winterizing Our 1965 Impala SS.

Scott is back with project car updates! He’s been suffering from some project car burnout, which can catch up to anyone, but he’s back at it and ready to get the Impala all winterized as...

Vice Grip Garage Frankenstein Duster Part 3: MASSIVE CHEAP Mopar Transformation! Duster Looks Better Than Ever!

If you missed Part 1 and 2, use the link below to check it out and listen to how awesome the Duster sounds! And in this video here it is finally time to start making it look better and that means...