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Wanna Know What A Blueprint 540 Makes On Nitrous? With A Roots Blower? With Twin Turbos? With A ProCharger? Watch This.
When Blueprint Engines came out with their power adder series of crate engines we got one of the very first off the assembly line. It was their 400 cubic inch traditional small block featuring forged...
Suspension Tech Video: How To Calculate Spring Rate With The Guys At QA1 – Get It Right The First Time
We live in a world where the high performance aftermarket can service every single one of your needs, especially when it comes to suspension. We don’t live in a world where people have...
Godzilla Roars: Watch A 7.3L Ford Godzilla Engine Run Wide Open On The Dyno – See The Power Curves and How It Responds To Tweaks!
The 7.3L pushrod V8 known as Ford’s Godzilla engine is still and emerging and exciting platform when it comes to hot rodding. Very few people are doing a lot of deep exploration with this...
LS Power Recipes That Work: Pick Your Power Level Right Here.
For years I’ve been telling people that if you want to know how to make a certain amount of power with an LS you need to listen to Richard Holdener. This guys has tested more engines on the...
Dyno Test Video: Measuring The Gains Of Roller Rockers On A Hot Rod Stroker Jeep Inline Six Engine
It’s the age old question that hot rodders have asked themselves since the dawn of time. “Are they worth the money?” This goes for basically any part of parts that people have to...
Scream For Me: This Video Of Miniature Supercharged and Naturally Aspirated Conley Stinger V8 Engines Rules!
While we love tiny little engines around here, especially those that are hand whittled or designed in someone’s basement, we do understand that there’s more than one way to get your tiny...
Antique Airbrushing: Watch As This 1920s Era Paint Sprayer Undergoes A Full Restoration!
Painting…now there’s something I should be doing more of. One of my first large-scale products involved painting an early 1980s Mercury Capri and over the years I’ve done occasional...
NASCAR To Transition To Center Lock Wheels For 2021 Season – 18″ Aluminum BBS Wheels
In a move that has been meet with interesting reactions across the internet, NASCAR has announced that for the 2021 season the cars in the series will use a center lock style wheel and that wheel...
Project Townado: Time For A No Money Refresh Of The 351 Cleveland That’ll Bee Seeing A Little Boost!
When we say “no money refresh” we mean it as about the most expensive thing involved with this video are the head gaskets that go under the iron bricks atop the block of the 351 Cleveland...
Watch Rob Dahm’s Insane Billet 4-Rotor RX-7 Make Repeated 1,000hp AWD Dyno Pulls! This Is Mental
Rob Dahm’s RX-7 build is one of the most wildly awesome things on the internet. Not content to just do it like so many others have, Dahm is building what is basically the fastest, hardest core,...
Hagerty Buick Straight Eight Build: More Machine Shop Action, Some Carnage, and The Repairs That Save The Day
When last we checked in on the Hagerty Redline Rebuild Buick straight eight engine project, a few of the bores had been condemned to be hogged out for sleeves and a couple of them had been given the...
Short Stroke 8,000 RPM LS Screamer! This Sucker Makes Big Power And Revs For Days!
You gotta love a short stroke high rpm engine combo. I mean who doesn’t like the sound of a V8 engine at 8,000 rpm? Ford, Chevrolet, Mopar, they are all awesome up there. But GM’s LS...
Watch This Cool Sheet Steel Motorcycle Frame Go Together: Have Plasma Cutter, Will Make Cool Stuff!
When Matt from Urchfab starts working on something, like the bitchin Mongrel project we are so in love with, he goes head first. So when he had a sponsor who wanted a custom motorcycle built,...
Y Block, Why Not? This Video Shows Master Engine Builder Keith Dorton Rebuilding And Improving A Legendary Ford Y-Block V8
The Ford Y-block was the company’s first overhead valve V8 engine, technically its first small block, and the engine that replaced the venerable flathead that had powered so many millions of...