Category Archive: 1320 Engine Tech, 1320 Tech Story, Apex Engine Tech, Apex Tech Stories, ENGINE, ENGINES, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos, XL Engine Tech, XL Tech Stories
Fuel Injector Guide – Which Fuel Injector Is Right For You?
Injectors are a pretty important part of an EFI engine, but can be a tricky buying choice when you start making real power with a combo, or are building one up from scratch. If you are going for a...
Will It Run? Barn Find 3rd Gen Camaro. Will It Make A 600 Mile Trip Home?
When Derek picked up the old Ford recently and then had to make repairs, and keep it going, so he could drive it all the way home from Iowa I was hooked. This time Derek has a 1989 Camaro that has...
Polishing Turds Episode 5: Balancing The Crankshaft
In this latest episode of the Polishing Turds series from HED you are going to see the excitement that is balancing a rotating assembly. This series is of course done with tongue firmly in cheek, but...
The Sequel: Dragging A Derelict 1958 Plymouth Back To The Land Of The Living
We’ve seen this movie before. Boy finds used, abused and pretty much abandoned 1958 Plymouth wasting away. Boy decides that the Plymouth is one of the most beautiful things he’s seen,...
New Redline Rebuild Video: The Time Lapse Of The 283 Chevy Teardown and Assembly Is Here And It’s A Fun Watch
We tend to stick onto the Redline Rebuild series videos like glue around here. But this time? To be totally honest, we weren’t really THAT into the 2-bbl 283 rebuild in-depth but we sure wanted...
WHICH IS BETTER-CNC PORTED STOCK LS HEADS OR AFTER MARKET CNC HEADS. TEA 243 HEADS VS AFR 245 HEADS!
Should you port your stock LS heads or buy aftermarket? With LS engines being capable of making such crazy power with stock components, do the cylinder heads fall into that category? Do you need...
Flathead History and Build Video: The Little V8 That Changed The World Is Awesome And This Video Tells You Why
The Ford flathead V8 is iconic for so many reasons. It was the first V8 that was mass produced for the common man and at the time it was created the engine was amazingly innovative. Why? Someone who...
All The Horsepower: Watch The 9.8L Whipple Blown SMX Powered Drag and Drive Porsche Of Danny Humphreys Make 2,600+ Hp
Imagine living in a world where a street driven car can be equipped with a 9.8L Whipple blower, vertical injector, incredible water block SMX engine and make 2,600hp to the wheel on an easy tune up....
HOW MUCH NITROUS IS TOO MUCH? HOW MUCH NITROUS CAN I RUN ON AN LS? 383 STROKER LS ZEX NITROUS TEST
Nitrous sometimes gets a bad rap because it scares people who still believe that using it will result in melted pistons. While that is possible, modern nitrous systems are more effective, safer, and...
Inspecting A Weirdo: This Teardown Of A High Mileage VW W8 Engine Is Revealing and Interesting
Now this is a trip into the unknown, for us anyway. We have long known of the VW W8 engine (and the massive W-16 used in cars like the Bugatti) but we had never seen one taken apart and torn down,...
Iron Trap’s 1934 Ford Coupe “Beautiful” Has A New Engine And Is Ready To Drive!!
Video 1 Description: In the last update on “Beautiful” we found out the 59ab we had planned on putting in as a replacement had a cracked block. The engine appeared to be totally rebuilt...
Getting Lucky! MYSTERY Small Block Chevy Engine Identified
(Words and Video by Tommy Lee Byrd aka The Hot Rod Hoarder) This Mystery engine intrigued me from the moment I realized it was part of a package deal with my $500 Nova. Decoding an old engine is...
Large By Huge Video: This Look At The Biggest Four Cylinder Engines In The World Is Neat!
Perhaps it hurts to say it a little, but the four cylinder engine is likely the most popular piston engine size of all time. We can talk about different layouts and all but in reality, wether inline,...
