Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos
Happy 3/13! Check Out This Export-Only Chrysler 313 A-block As It Sings On The Dyno!
After 1967, tracking Chrysler V8 engine families is easy: LA (small-block), B (low-deck big block), RB (raised-deck big block) and Hemi. Prior to 1967, though, things get a little more complicated,...
Sneaky Stroker Video: This 427 FE Ford Big Block Is Actually 498ci And It Is Angry!
Being in the engine building business has to be a trip. Like in any other industry, your main job is to serve the customer and give the guy or the girl exactly what they are looking for, whether you...
Dyno Video: 9,500 RPM Of Absolutely Wailing Big Block Ford!
Like drag race engines, truck pulling mills are designed to make maximum output for relatively short bursts. Sure, the intention is to have them hold together for as long as possible, but unlike say...
Engine Autopsy: Here’s A Look Inside The Ill-Fated DeBoss Garage 16-Cylinder Detroit Diesel
About a week ago we showed you the DeBoss Garage video of the guys buying a junkyard Detroit Diesel V16 engine, getting it running, and then blowing the sucker up for fun. It was going to be crushed...
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...
