Category Archive: ENGINES, MOPAR, TECH, Videos
The Bottle Rocket Coronet: Looking Over The Sacrificial Engine
For the last few episodes of the Bottle Rocket Coronet, Uncle Tony and Lambchop have been focused hard on shedding weight out of the B-body sedan by nickel-and-diming weight out where they can....
The Stupicharger: Hoonigan’s Lab Rat Firebird Returns With More Forced Induction!
On one hand, we have to say that we do not miss the “turdos” that used to be mounted on this Pontiac Firebird one bit. The car looked like a fan of Russian ekranoplans went way overboard...
Roaming Once More: Reviving A 1947 GM Bus That Has Been Sitting For Decades!
There is something about the shape of old buses. They were meant to be one thing and one thing only: a place for a bunch of weary butts to sit down while the driver took them to wherever they needed...
Junkyard Lighting Round Part Three: Will This Dual-Quad Small-Block Ford Wake Up?
For the last couple of days we’ve been showing you what happens when three car-guy YouTubers get together at a junkyard with some time to kill. The plan is simple: Kevin (Junkyard Digs), Luke...
Here’s A Cool Idea For Making Retracting Casters For Your Welding Table Or Workbench
I seem to find myself in an ever shrinking amount of workshop space and so I’m always looking at space saving measures for my shop equipment. Sometimes there just isn’t a way to make...
Junkyard Revival Lightning Round, Part Two: Jeep CJ-5, AMC Javelin, And Dodge Darts!
Yesterday we showed you the first video of the fun three YouTubers had in a private junkyard in the South. When Luke (Thunderhead289) and Kevin (Junkyard Digs) went to Dylan McCool’s territory,...
The $1,000 Z-Car: The Straight-Six Story Is One Of Sadness
The first installment of the story of a cheap Craigslist-sourced Datsun 280Z was foreboding, to put it mildly. Nevermind the usual issues that come with an S30 that hasn’t been kept up, the...
Lightning Round: With A Battery, Gas And Tools, How Many Junkyard Cars Will Fire Off?
From the moment I walk into the fenced-off area, I have one thought going in my head in a junkyard: if it is just a matter of a battery and some gas, how many cars in this yard would actually run and...
More Is Better, Right? It’s Now A THREE-Engined Lada, And It Still Drives!
Three engines. Twelve cylinders. A combined displacement of four liters. And no, it’s not a Ferrari mill. Instead, it’s the little red Lada that we’ve been showing you for the last...
Project Hell: This $1000 Datsun 280Z Shows That You Get What You Paid For
In the list of cars I’ve dealt with so far in life, a disproportionate amount of vehicles fall under the $1,000 and under class. At least fifteen of them, to be honest. And out of those...
Rotary Kei Truck Project: Work Continues On The Suzuki Carry Build!
If you’ve ever seen a kei truck in person, you are probably like me in one sense: you looked at it and wondered how fast it truly is. These tiny trucks are a staple in Japan where they fit...
Glutton For Punishment: The Hoonigan Audi Project Continues, Rusty Bolts Notwithstanding!
It’s the noise that we all hate to hear: that sharp metallic snap that happily informs the idiot holding the wrench that the torque applied was far beyond what was needed and that now would be...
The Fiero Revival: Detail Fixes On The 1985 Fiero That Hadn’t Moved In Twenty Years
As a first-timer who is taking on their first project vehicle, it is undoubtedly a scary proposition to learn that a major component of the project car that you are taking on doesn’t work. If...
