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Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos

Video: Watch A Twin Turbo, 427ci Windsor Ford Engine Crank Out 1600hp On An Aussie Dyno!

This awesome blue oval mill had us yelling, “LS What?!” after we saw video of it wrenching out 1600hp on an Australian dyno. With CHI heads, Precision turbos, and 20lbs of boost heading...

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Watch This Alcohol-Fueled 604ci Mopar B1 Smack This Dyno Around To The Tune of 1,885HP!

I swear, I had the full intention to find a Mopar engine that had puked it’s guts out when I was searching through YouTube. However, not thinking, I typed in the words “blown Mopar...

This e85-Converted Hellcat Laid Down 753 HP and 670 Ft/Lbs of Torque At The Wheels!

You’d think 700-plus horsepower would be more than enough for most people. You’d think so, but if that number is stock, it’s safe to assume that someone, somewhere will try to eek...

What’s Green, Small, And Can Lay Waste To A Porsche? This All-Electric BMW 3-Series…Meet The Green Monster

You see that green E30 BMW laying waste to the BMW M6? It’s a full-on electric conversion. The M6 that is currently having it’s own backside handed to it on a silver platter came with...

It May Have Cost The Owner North Of Forty Grand, But This Bugatti’s New Exhaust Has The “Quiet Hypercar” Growling Like The Devil’s Own Pit Bull

Forty thousand dollars will get you a great selection of new cars, a vast selection of used cars, a ton of modifications for your project, or whatever else your heart desires. That’s for us...

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Watch This Video Of The New Corvette LT4 Getting Built At Chevrolet’s Tonawanda Engine Plant

We dig plant tours around here. I don’t know why, but ever since I was a little kid I’ve loved touring everything from candy factories to tractor plants, and everything in between....

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What Does The EcoBoost Mustang Sound Like With An Exhaust Kit? You Be The Judge…

The EcoBoost Mustang makes the same kind of power that the Mustang GT made ten years ago, weighs less than it’s modern GT relative, and has a reasonable MPG gain to sweeten the deal, yet the...

Rotary-power Fans, Meet Your New Holy Grail: A Functioning 12-rotor Wankel Engine

Radical overkill…the point where you seriously consider that there is such a thing as too much. A case in point is this Wankel engine. It’s got twelve rotors. That’s eight more that...

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Video: We Talk Rings And Bearings With MAHLE’s Bill McKnight

Bill McKnight is the man. No really, the ACTUAL man! When you go to www.AskMAHLEClevite.com, and ask a technical question, the guy on the other end of the internet answering it is Bill McKnight....

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2014 Saddest News: Pat Garlits, Wife of Big Daddy Don Garlits, Dies

After a long and valiant battle with Alzheimer’s disease, we are sad to report tonight that Pat Garlits, the wife of the greatest drag racer ever, Don Garlits has died. The role of Pat Garlits...

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Dyno Video: Hello Boost, Bye Bye Head Gasket – Watch This Evo Turn Into A Lawn Sprinkler

Ah, the chassis dyno. It is a maker of heroes and a destroyer of egos. This footage is claimed to have come from Greece, a place where they apparently like to hot rod Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions....

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Video: Watch A Pissed Off Blown 540ci Chevy Make A Pull On The Scariest Looking “Dyno” Ever

We’ve been around a few engine dynos in our life and frankly NONE of them have looked or acted like the “dyno” in this video. Frankly, we’re thinking that this is more along...

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Big Bore Dyno Music – Small Block V8s, Ferrari V12, and A Maserati Inline Six A Savannah Race Engineering

Yesterday we brought you the screams of small inch, four cylinder engines cranking away on the dyno at Savannah Race Engineering so today we’re bringing you some deeper tones and larger...

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Video: The 1960s Indy Car Engine From Steve Strope’s Martini T5-R Mustang Wails On The Dyno!

One of the most loved on, looked at, and drooled upon cars at the 2012 SEMA show was the Pure Vision built 1966 Martini T5-R Mustang. This creation from the mind of Steve Strope was a “what...

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