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Watch Pete at HED Get LeRoy’s Motor Together!! Assembling Cleetus Mcfarland’s Engine For LeRoy the Savage.

For the last year, Peter Harrell, the owner of Harrell Engine and Dyno in Mooresville, North Carolina, has been tuning on Cleetus McFarland’s rowdiest cars. We’re talking about Mullet of...

New High-Torque Sleeper Impact Guns Aim to Upset M18 Gen 3 Launch: Metabo HPT 1/2″ & 3/4″

The torque test channel is back at it, and they have the biggest and baddest cordless impact guns going head to head. With new tools being introduced soon from Milwaukee, the other brands are trying...

This Insanely Huge Collection Of Flathead Ford Intake Manifolds Belongs To Just One Man! How Did He Get, And Keep, This Many?!

Some folks collect cars, other hubcaps or wheels, some memorabilia, but then there are the folks that collect just one kind of engine part or another. We’ve all seen them online or in the swap...

Can Finnegan Tow Doubles With His Cummins Diesel-Swapped Chevy or Is It Gonna Get Dangerous?

Everyone knows I’m a huge fan of ramp trucks, and so is Mike Finnegan. He’s owned several, gave Newbern the bug so bad he’s building his own, and now he wants to haul more than one...

Part 5: Questionable Garage Is Engine Swapping A Plymouth Duster THREE TIMES For Three Events! 3 Days To Swap Engines and Race, Can They Do It?

You read that right, three engines, same car, 4 weeks, three different events. And not just three different mopar engines. Nope, we’re talking about an LS, a Gen 3 Hemi, and then a Coyote Ford....

The DD Speed Shop Gasser 1964 Nova: Girlfriend Drives HER GASSER For the FIRST TIME! Nose High 1964 Chevy II

Driving a gasser is a whole different experience than driving a regular muscle car, but what happens when you build one for your girl and she drives it but hates it? Do we just hide the sharp objects...

1935 Chevrolet Top Chop: Bello’s Kustoms Gets A 1935 Chevy Looking Better In Preparation For Cutting The Top Off And Lowering It Like A Proper Hot Rod.

You know how much we dig Michael Bello and the crew at Bello’s Kustoms and their locochon style. Locochon, or Lokochon Style as they put it at Bellos means crazy or wild and that is how they...

The Definitive Guide: Power Tool Battery Adapters Good, Bad, How Bad? Should You Even Think About Buying Them?

There is only one reason why all the tool batteries on the planet have a different base to slide into, and that the batteries are so expensive, and that is so that once you buy a cordless tool you...

Engine Swap! Father & Son Budget Squarebody Truck Build With Vice Grip Garage- Part 1 Not What You Think!

It’s father and son project time on Vice Grip Garage and that means this fun Squarebody GM truck is getting an engine swap! I love squarebody Chevrolet and GMC trucks and so does Derek, so it...

THE ULTIMATE CHEAP, EBAY, AMAZON AMR500 BLOWER TEST. FULL RESULTS-AIRFLOW, TEMP & POWER CONSUMPTION

If you are not familiar with the AMR500 supercharger, then you are going to wonder what the hype can be about when you are talking about something so small. But they are cheap. Like less than $200...

Are Expensive MIG Welders a Ripoff? Or Are Cheap MIG Welders Actually Worth Owning? Let’s Settle This In This Video From Project Farm

Technology is a wonderful thing sometimes and has brought all kinds of previously high-priced items into the realm of reality for many home hobbyists and automotive enthusiasts. One of the areas...

If You Crash Your Race Car, When Should You Fix It And When Should You Scrap It And Start Over? Tim McAmis Lets Us Know!

I’ve had the opportunity to drive a lot of cool cars in my life, but before I even started up the engine in a race car I haven’t driven before, I always inspected it so I could make an...

Part 4: Questionable Garage Is Engine Swapping A Plymouth Duster THREE TIMES For Three Events!

So here’s a little back story… When we started doing Holley’s Moparty event at Bowling Green Kentucky’s Beech Bend Raceway Park, an event that is happening this weekend as a matter of fact,...

THE AMAZING 4.8L LS-HOW TO MAKE MORE LOW-SPEED TORQUE! LT HEADERS? CAMS? THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS BOOST

Boost makes torque baby! But is that the only way to make torque in a smaller engine like a 4.8 LS? In this video from Richard Holdener, he’s going to put a 4.8L through its paces to see if he...