Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos
Mondo-Roto Video: More New Footage Of The 12 Rotor Engine On The Dyno – The Sound Is Good
As we told you the other day, the 12 rotor engine made initial, low RPM dyno runs and survived so now the mill is back at home to be pulled apart, inspected, upgraded with EFI and prepared for its...
It Lives! The Crazed 12-Rotor Engine Makes Initial Runs On Dyno – We Have Video, Sheets, And Power Numbers!
It was late January when we told you about Tyson Gavin’s wild 12 rotor engine that has the potential on paper to make multiple thousands of horsepower when fully sorted out. At that time, Tyson...
Video: The Duke Axial Piston Engine Is Weird And Cool
The ECTA’s Joe Timney sent me this video yesterday and I watched in a couple of times just to take it all in. The video is about the Duke engine which is an “axial” piston engine....
Video: This Insane 12-Rotor Rotary Engine Has Us Wanting One Bad – 5,000 Potential Horsepower
Yes, we said 9,000 horsepower potential. We’re not pulling that number out of our keisters either. It is listed on the R12 website as the highest potential output from this 960ci 12-rotor piece...
Video: This 10,000 RPM Dyno Pull Of A 500ci A/Dragster Comp Eliminator Motor Is The Best Thing You Will Hear All Week
Book Racing Engines is a place we have told you about before. From pro stock mills to competition eliminator killers, the crew at BRE build some really awesome engines. In this video you’ll see...
This Video Of A 3,000hp Pro Mod Motor Making A Dyno Pull Is AWESOME
Danny Rowe Racing posted a video to their Facebook page yesterday showing Jimmy Rector, the team’s crew chief and long time builder of insanely powerful alcohol motors pulling one of the...
1000 Horsepower LS Turbo Getting The Headers Cherry Red. A Sneak Peek On Our LS 383 Turbo Project.
Last week we gave you Part 1 of our Cool G: 1000 Horsepower Turbo LS engine build and told you all about how the naturally aspirated combo went together. We’ll be showing you the completed 1000...
Watch This Awesome 428ci W9 Headed Chrysler Small Block Rip Off 748 Naturally Aspirated Horsepower
I’ve never owned anything with a Chrysler small block before but I have certainly announced lots of races where worked up Mopar mouse motors are making big noise. For me, there’s a weird...
Engine Video: Watch A Hot Rod Beetle With A Turbo-Charged Subaru Motor Hit The Streets
As he often tends to do, Brian sent me a message the other night that consisted solely of a YouTube link and the words “Look at the link that I just sent”. Even though I know Brian and have been...
Video Bonanza – Here’s a Collection Of Videos Featuring Cars With Big Cams Idling Roughly – Ford, GM, Mopar, AMC, All Here!
We know, we know, just because some rig comes rolling by you at a car show with a stumbling, rumbling idle from the world’s biggest camshaft doesn’t mean it makes lots of power or is very...
Jim Murphy’s Simple And Ingenious Cure For Nostalgia Top Fuel Oil Downs
In this video by our dude Les Mayhew, Nostalgia Top Fuel Veteran and Champion Jim Murphy shows the world his ingenious and simple cure for Nostalgia Top Fuel oil downs. He explains that as a...
Best of BangShift 2013: Watch A Custom Built V-Twin Spin To 12,000RPM And Make Nealy 120hp For A Pulling Garden Tractor!
Tractor pulling, in all of its various forms is pretty serious business. Sure the big diesel super stocks get lots of glory and we always pee a little when we see a machine with multiple blown...
Best of BangShift 2013: The Wildest And Most Violent Dyno Pull Ever – Aussie Burnout Simulation
Ok, we’ve often wondered how the engines that the Aussie guys abuse to the hilt in their burnout contests survive the rev limiter violent that goes on for minutes at a time. It has been an open...
Watch A Tuned Up And Hot Rodded New LT1 Engine Make More Than 620 HP On The Dyno Naturally Aspirated
The buzz around the LT1 engine and the smaller variants of it that can be found in trucks has been totally positive since the engine family began hitting the streets in Corvettes and Silverados. Our...