Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos
The 4.2L Checker Build: A Marathon Build Session In The Cold
Retrofitting a modern engine into a car whose overall design was more-or-less stuck in the 1950s is never going to be a cakewalk. Trying to get the work done in the snow and cold will leave even the...
Challenge Time: The Triple-Engine Lada Visits The Dyno To Get Some Real Numbers!
So, here’s the thing: looking at Garage 54’s triple-engine Lada, you would think that a 4.0L inline-12 experiment should make some kind of number. You would think…but here’s...
The Bottle Rocket Coronet: Looking Over The Sacrificial Engine
For the last few episodes of the Bottle Rocket Coronet, Uncle Tony and Lambchop have been focused hard on shedding weight out of the B-body sedan by nickel-and-diming weight out where they can....
The Steak, The Steam, The Suffering: Finnegan’s Woes Leading Up To The Showdown
By now you already know how this story plays out: Mike Finnegan packed his 1955 Chevy, “Blasphemi”, into his newest car hauler, grabbed a couple of friends to come along, and headed west,...
More Is Better, Right? It’s Now A THREE-Engined Lada, And It Still Drives!
Three engines. Twelve cylinders. A combined displacement of four liters. And no, it’s not a Ferrari mill. Instead, it’s the little red Lada that we’ve been showing you for the last...
Twin Engined Lada Testing: This Straight-Eight Freakshow Runs?!
When Garage 54 slapped two Lada four-cylinders together to create a 2.7L straight-eight, everybody had suspicions…including the hosts themselves. Turning two engines into one isn’t a...
Video: Boost and Nitromethane For The See Through Engine! Hand-chanical Fuel Injection
We have been following the saga of the guy with the YouTube channel and the obsession with Briggs and Stratton engines for some time now. He first kind of burst onto our radar when he ran one of his...
This 1950s Video About Engines is Awesome, Complete With Dangerous In Home Experiments!
There’s nothing better than finding old timey videos like this one. Made in the 1950 as part of an educational series for kids, this thing is all about how engines work. We dig it because the...
Home-Building A Straight Eight, or How To Make A BangShifty Lada
Don’t knock the Lada Riva series of sedans…they are the third best selling cars on the planet behind the Model T Ford and the VW Beetle, and have one of the longest production runs,...
Morning Symphony: Two Lamborghini V-12s On The Stand – A 3.5L and an 8.0L Example
Supercars aren’t our normal bag. We can appreciate them for what they can do, though. We love the engineering that goes into engines that went leaps and bounds over the typical road-going...
Video: Masters Of Motors 2018 PRI Edition – Judging The Coolest Engines At The Hardest Core Performance Show In The Wold
It’s back! Below we have the Masters of Motors 2018 PRI edition video for you to enjoy. If you checked out the 2018 SEMA show Masters of Motors competition, you know that JE Pistons stepped up...
44 Years Lost, This Mustang Is Being Woken Up To Make Up For Lost Time!
How does a car just fall off of the map for decades at a time? How do you just park a car somewhere, forget about it and decide to just move along, especially when said car is one that from the...
Deep-Sixed: Reviving A Submerged Lada From It’s Six-Month Underwater Stay!
So…how are you enjoying the absolutely frigid weather? Do you like temperatures so cold that the water in the toilet tank freezes into one gigantic ice cube? Do you walk out of your front door...
