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Video: Comp Cams Explains Camshaft Technology

Comp Cams has got some great new videos up that explain some of the often misunderstood concepts behind camshaft technology. In this video “Comp Cams Technology Explained: Cam Timing”...

Eargasm Video: An Awesome Collection of Exhaust Sounds From Exotics to Hot Rods to Modern Muscle Cars!

Our pal and video maven Jason Lewis is back with another great piece of work. We’ve showed you Jason’s kick ass V10 Maverick project, some of the work he has done with stuntman Mike Ryan...

Watch a Turbocharger Violently Explode During a Dyno Pull – Flying Sharpnel! Duck and Cover!

With more and more turbochargers being bolted onto drag cars, street machines, hot rods, trucks, and in this case, old school import cars, there are going to be more and more videos like this hitting...

Screaming Dyno Video: Jay Brown’s 530ci, 850hp, Fuel Injected, FE Ford Drag Week Hammer!

Jay Brown, he of FE engine building, home dyno owning, awesome Ford drag machine fame will once again fly the Blue Oval banner at Hot Rod Drag Week 2012. This time it is an aluminum, 530ci, fuel...

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Hilarious Video: Freiburger and Finnegan Bolt A Blower On to a SBC Powered Jag and Pound On It Mercilessly

The newest episode of Roadkill the web-show that documents the wacky adventures of David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan from Hot Rod Magazine was released last Friday and this one is pretty damned...

Insane Dyno Video: Nelson Racing Engines Unleashes a Twin Turbo, 632ci, 2200hp Dyno Destroyer!

The other day we asked you, “How much horsepower is ‘enough’?” The responses varied from pretty normal estimates of 400-500hp all the way to the guys who want a top fuel...

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Watch a Reher-Morrison NHRA Super Stock Hemi Scream to Almost 9,000RPM on the Dyno

This is some glorious noise! We recently discovered that world famous engine building company Reher and Morrison has a YouTube channel that they are posting dyno videos on. They have a few of them up...

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Watch a Hot Rodded Duramax Diesel Break Itself Off of an Engine Dyno During a Pull!

The guys at Nitrous Express have always been into diesels. We all remember their bitchin’ Duramax powered Mustang that went on Drag Week and knocked down insane elapsed times with killer...

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Hellacious Dyno Video: Watch Lee Sicilio’s Turbo Barton Hemi Powered Beast Spin the Rollers!

Our pal Scott Clark is an EFI tuner that lays his hands and lap top on lots of different cars across the country. There are high performance street cars, drag cars, and land speed cars as well. The...

Watch A Twin ProCharged Big Block Bust the Dyno at Steve Morris Racing Engines!

Steve Morris Racing Engines is known around the country for making stupid huge horsepower engines for drag race cars and lunatic fringe street machines. We first met Steve back in 2005 when he showed...

Watch an Ancient, Blown Cadillac Flathead Snarl Out 500hp on John Beck’s Dyno!

It seems as though we touched off a flathead horsepower war! Yesterday we ran video of a blown, Ardun headed Ford flattie making about 450hp on a dyno and then we got tipped off to a video from John...

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Watch Freiburger and Finnegan (and a pit bull) Swap the Motor in a 1969 El Camino in Summit Racing’s Parking Lot

Freiburger and Finnegan are back with another episode of “Roadkill” their off-kilter adventure show where they do neat and humorous car stuff. Essentially we revel in their pain and...

Watch A Nelson Racing Engines Custom, Billet, Twin Turbo Hemi Makes 2500hp on the Dyno!

We have featured some cool engines and cars from the shop of Tom Nelson, but this one may take the cake. Using a CAD designed, billet aluminum block, a set of his “mirror image” twin...

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Watch a Triple Turbocharged DT466 Diesel Powered Dragster Run Down the Strip – Smoke A-Plenty!

We saw a link to this video posted over at YellowBullet and thought that the BS world would want to get a look at one of the weirdest and wildest dragsters we have laid eyes on in a good, long time....