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Category Archive: DRIVETRAIN, ENGINE, ENGINES, MOPAR, Project Cars, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos

Roadkill’s Left For Dead Dodge Daytona Gets a Big Block and a Stick Shift!

Prep is happening! That’s right, the Dumpster Fire Dodge Charger Daytona clone is getting three pedals and a bunch of other goodies on a new episode of Roadkill so Finnegan has to get the thing...

FORD VS CHEVY-TRUCK MOTOR SHOOT OUT! 5.3L TRUCK LS VS 5.4L 4V NAVIGATOR MOD MOTOR. FULL DYNO RESULTS

Ford vs Chevrolet, this battle has been going on since the first Chevrolet pulled up next to its first Ford, and continues as strong as ever to this day. And with the unbelievable level of...

Will It RUN AND DRIVE 700 Miles Home? Is This The RUSTIEST Forgotten Firebird EVER! Vice Grip Garage Thinks So

Sometimes I wonder if Derek just picks some of these cars to make us think he’s crazy. I mean seriously, he can’t possibly think all of these are a good idea. I know he used to, but he...

This Is What The Inside Of A Burned And Melted LS Engine Looks Like After A Huge Shop Fire At Halfass Kustoms

When I was on Team Bigun, for the $10,000 Drag Shootout #2, our car was burned in a fire on a transport truck and the damage was kind of crazy. You would have been blown away if you saw the amount of...

Polishing Turds Season 2: Part 4 – Truing Up The Decks On Cody’s ProCharged 360 Cubic Inch Small Block To Make Big Power!

In the fourth episode of this new Polishing Turds engine project, Pete is going to be making the decks perfectly square and flat so this little supercharged small-block will make more power. This is...

The Sniper 2 EFI From Holley Just Dropped And Here Is The Install Guide! Making EFI The Easiest And Best Yet.

Holley is back at it with a whole new Sniper EFI system! The new Sniper 2 is a whole new animal with more features, easier installation, better hardware, and more! Holley says they have taken the #1...

Will this 600 HORSPOWER AMC Javelin Race Engine Run After Sitting For Almost 30 YEARS??? If Lake Speed Jr. Can’t Save It, It Can’t Be Saved.

The Javelin adventures continue! In the first two videos in this series, they found and saved this old AMC drag car after it had been sitting for more than 30 years. There were all kinds of...

427 LS3 STROKER INTAKE TEST-LS3 VS HI RAM VS EDEL PRO FLO XT! WHICH ONE IS BEST FOR BIG-BOY POWER?

Intake manifolds might be the subject of even more controversy than camshafts when it comes to LS engines, but Richard has done all the testing and has the results for this specific combo right here....

FINNEGAN IS CRASH-PROOFING THE FRONT OF HIS TURBOCHARGED ’61 CADDY!

Finnegan is back at it on the Caddy project, one that everybody seems to want to see finished more than maybe anything else he’s working on. This car is going to be awesome cubed and we...

427 LS3 STROKER INTAKE TEST-LS3 VS HI RAM VS EDELBROCK PRO FLO XT! WHICH ONE IS BEST FOR BIG-BOY POWER?

The only thing Richard Holdener has tested more than LS Intake manifolds is LS Camshafts, but he’s spent an insane amount of time not only testing all the intakes on the market, but also...

Engine Building Tech: End Gap Mistakes That Will RUIN Your Engine. Lake Speed Jr.Gives Us The Inside Scoop On Piston Ring Gap!

Lake Speed Jr. is a sharp cat. I’ve known him for years now and ALWAYS enjoy the conversations we have about engine, oil, and motorsports technologies. This dude is super smart, a riot to play...

HOW MUCH POWER IS THE PERFORMANCE DESIGN LS3 INTAKE REALLY WORTH? LS3 VS PD 105 & 112-FULL RESULTS!

If you haven’t seen a Performance Design intake manifold, you are missing out. When this company first came onto the scene everyone in the industry wondered how they had come out of nowhere to...

Watch This Awesome 428ci Pontiac Rev To 9,500 RPM And Make 1,000 Naturally Aspirated HP!

We use the term Pontiac here with a bit of a wink because the engine you are about to see make some big power on the dyno does not have a single stock Pontiac part in it. What it does have it is a...

MORE: ENGINES, Videos

Is Higher Octane Fuel Better? Better MPGs? More HP? Let’s find out!

Full disclosure, this Project Farm testing is all being done on small engines, both of which are carbureted but we’ll talk about why that might be important in a second. In this video,...