Category Archive: ENGINES, MOPAR, Videos
Raising A Demon: Hagerty’s Time-Lapse Build Of A Challenger SRT Demon’s Engine Is Gorgeous!
The 840-horsepower Hemi that lies under the hood of the limited-production Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is going to go down in history as one of the all-time “f**k you, we’re going to have...
Junkyard Gem: Wait Until You Hear The Engine In This Scrapped Crown Victoria Run!
I hate that whenever I have to go to the junkyard I’m on a time crunch and need to get in, get what I need and get out. I could spend hours on end pawing through the mangled, stripped, and...
It Lives! Dylan McCool’s 1969 Dodge Charger Has It’s First Fire!
If there is one moment of trepidation for any novice builder, it’s the first fire of a new engine. It’s a 50/50 gamble…either everything will be okay or everything will go straight...
Hot Five: 1,203 Horsepower Out Of 2.7L Of A Turbocharged Volvo Inline-Five
I’m a little partial to Volvos. The first burnout I ever did was in a 1976 242D two-door, and after watching hours upon hours of rally footage, I’ve come to appreciate the capabilities of...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Take On The New Crop Of YouTube Mechanics?
Today’s question starts out with a video series on YouTube that kicked off at the beginning of the year on the D.I.Y. Gang YouTube channel. A 2016 Dodge Challenger Hellcat that saw the wrong...
The Auction Mistake Corvette Has A New Heartbeat! See Cleetus Get Dirty Putting The New Mill Together!
The last time we nosed around Cleetus’s neck of the woods with the Auction Mistake Corvette, it was right about the time he absolutely and utterly fragged the engine while on a dragstrip pass....
Synergistic: An SN-95 Mustang Packing A Toyota 2JZ Inline-Six. Cue The Hate Mail!
Some people can’t survive on watching the world burning alone. They have to stand next to the flames with a can of Jet A and insist on throwing cupfuls of fuel onto the fire just to make sure...
Morning Symphony: The Daddy Of All Modded Chrysler 300Cs Is Alive Once More – The A-Bom Lives!
In March 2017, one of our favorite builds, a Chrysler 300 SRT-8 from Arizona many know as “A-bom” (read: abomination), the pet monster of “Mad” Matt Leischer, wound up with...
The American Powertrain Tuesday Shift: A Supercharged Straight Eight, A Clutch Pedal, And A Hill Climb
We live in an exceptionally neat age where things we see on a magazine page will suddenly roar to life in front of our very eyes in video form. That’s exactly what you are about to watch. The...
Horsepower Video: Watch Katech Make 1,000hp With An LT5 V8 – No Port Injection, No Cam Sawp
The LT5 V8 is a brutal 755hp 6.2L blown beast that lives in cars like the ZR1 Corvette and is available for purchase by hot rodders out there for use in both classic and modern applications. The LT...
Rollin’ Hard: This Street-Driven Holden Commodore Belted Out Nearly 2,500 Horsepower On The Dyno!
Throwing a Doorslammer and a RvW-style car on a dyno and getting big numbers is awesome, but it’s kind of par for the course. You’d expect something running a Hemi on alcohol to produce a...
Let The Dyno Decide: A Turbocharged Versus Blown Big-Power Battle At Summernats 32!
It’s the great automotive lie detector test. You can claim all the numbers you like, you can throw out any race challenge you want, but if you really want to be the one to lay their big brass...
Another One Bit The Dust: The Autopsy Of Project Neighbor’s Built Mill!
Cleetus isn’t having a good run lately. He wounded Leroy the Savage’s engine. He absolutely nuked the turbocharged truck motor in the Auction Mistake C6 Corvette. And then there’s...
