Category Archive: OTHER, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
How To Chop The Top On A Hot Rod: These Videos Have Us Inspired To Find Something To Cut Up!
A couple different BANGshifters actually put us onto Half Ass Kustoms on YouTube and their recently started series on chopping a top. In this case the willing victim happens to be a 1951 Dodge...
Weld Porn: The Plasma Bike Gets A Coffin Style Aluminum Gas Tank
Anyone who has ever fabricated a gas tank knows that there is a lot of work that goes into making one, even if it is just a plane box. But throw in a bunch of angles and such, like a Coffin style...
Mining For Gold, Part 2: How Bad Is Deboss Garage’s Engine Donor Mustang?
Have you ever looked at a car that has been “modded” to the hit and wonder just how well it was put together? Think back to the days of third-gen Camaros that had GTS light covers that...
Holley EFI Releases The 1bbl Sniper To Replace Autolite 1100 Carbs On Mustangs And Other Ford Inline Six Applications!
We’re entering a new phase in the world of EFI acceptance and performance for the aftermarket industry. For years the goal of aftermarket EFI systems was to boost horsepower, provide more...
Finnegan Speed Tests Three Stand Up Jet Skis To See If The New 2021 Yamaha Super Jet Is As Fast As It Looks
He did it for you…because he cares…and for science. On the surface this seems like a test anyone would want to do, but that’s only because most of you thinking a day on the lake...
Fixing Up The Front End: Vice Grip Garage’s Chevelle Has Moved Into The Build Phase!
What’s this year’s mantra? Easy: “Hopefully they’re still doing/having/running (INSERT AUTOMOTIVE-RELATED EVENT HERE) when they scheduled it this year!” That’s the...
Midget Of The Corn, Part 3: A Running Roadster And Can You Say, “Derecho”?
A few days ago a huge storm ripped through the upper Midwest, through Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and other locations. Winds in excess of 100 miles per hour raged, wreaking damage to crops, property,...
The Fiero Revival, Part 10: Oh, The Joys Of Bodywork And Priming
For a while during my “in the yard” days, it seemed that all I could smell for just about four years was Bondo, primer paint and masking tape. For many years there was a constant haze of...
Power To Its Core: This Neat Demonstration Shows An Optima Battery Powering Its Own Deconstruction!
Sometimes we all take for granted that everyone’s on the same page when it comes to the way that things work, right? For instance, when we talk about Optima batteries and tell you that they are...
Video From Inside A Tire While Driving Is Fantastic: A Weird View Of The Rolling World!
This is about the wildest video that we have seen in a while. Mounting a GoPro INSIDE a tire and driving around is the type of stuff that can only happen in 2020, right? It would not have been long...
What Is A Rear Driveshaft Enclosure, And Why Do I Need One? Tim McAmis Explains How It Works, Why, And How They Build Their’s.
We love Tim McAmis. Not just because he and his company build bad ass chassis for Pro Mod cars, but also because of the videos that he puts up explaining all kinds of great technical aspects of race...
Wood-Fired Lawn Mower: Colin Furze Is At It Again!
Full confession: It’s just after midnight and I’m craving pizza. Like Dennis in Stephen King’s Christine, stoned out of his head, dreaming of just sitting down and mowing through...
Take It All Off: Stripping The Patina’d Paint Off Of The Valiant Wagon
Without giving away too many details, it’s become quite clear that at some point in the Rough Start Mustang’s future, that a stripdown and repaint will be in order. Am I looking forward...
The Drag Saw Rescue Is Done: Check Out The Big Finish Of Final Assembly And Running This 120 Year Old Man Eater
This right here is some good stuff. A couple of weeks ago we posted the first part of the restoration of this 120 year old gas powered drag saw that was used by loggers to hack up trees into chunks....