Category Archive: TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
Watch This Cool Sheet Steel Motorcycle Frame Go Together: Have Plasma Cutter, Will Make Cool Stuff!
When Matt from Urchfab starts working on something, like the bitchin Mongrel project we are so in love with, he goes head first. So when he had a sponsor who wanted a custom motorcycle built,...
Cool Project Series: Full Boost Is Turbocharging A 351-Cleveland Powered 1976 Ford F-350 Ramp Truck!
We love it when people do stuff that we’ve not seen before. There’s a lot of that these days on the internet and some of it is great while lots of it kind of makes us roll our eyes. For...
Plumbed And Ready: Building The Hydraulic System For The Screw Tank Project
In my prior line of work regarding helicopters, I was an electrician, a technician, an armament tech, a vehicle maintainer, and just in case all of that wasn’t enough, I was responsible for the...
Y Block, Why Not? This Video Shows Master Engine Builder Keith Dorton Rebuilding And Improving A Legendary Ford Y-Block V8
The Ford Y-block was the company’s first overhead valve V8 engine, technically its first small block, and the engine that replaced the venerable flathead that had powered so many millions of...
A True Hybrid: Get A Closer Look At The 2JZ-Powered S550 Mustang!
I’m a sucker for a good “save the car” story, you all know this. Normally, I look for the the car that has been left alone for years, that nobody wanted to do anything with, that...
Machine Shop Time: This Update On the Hagerty Buick Straight Either Build Is All About Checking For Faults
There’s many parts of engine building that are not exactly sexy. It’s work, right? The internet tends to gussy the process up a bunch and we kind of get the sexiest version of engine...
The Mongrel Project Gets More Paint, Suspension, And More! This Sucker Is Getting Close To Making Noise And Smoke!!!
We love the Mongrel Project, a combination of a cool old British Ford and Mazda Miata that is somehow right in every way. The stance, the width, the flares, the fabrication, it all speaks to us and...
The Four-Wheel-Drive Jeep Kart: Steering, Body Mounts, and Rock Sliders
They weren’t kidding when they said that they were building their next Power Wheels Jeep to a high quality. The Grind Hard Plumbing Co. folks have been going all in on this...
Back To Business: Digging Out Another Bumpside Ford From It’s Hiding Spot In The Barn
Kevin and Luke have a pretty solid business plan: they find old Ford farm trucks, they get them to run again, and go about saving them as best as they can in-between in-shop projects like the...
Homegrown Outback: Converting A Lada To All-Wheel-Drive The Gearhead Way!
The guys at the Russian YouTube channel Garage54 aren’t usually subtle in what they do. They’re Roadkill from the other end of the world. Multi-engine builds, leaving a car underwater for...
Single VS Twins: Low Buck Turbo 1,000 HP Turbo Testing On A Big Block Chevrolet
When Richard Holdener does testing you can always count on lots of info, lots of laughs, and big numbers. After all, he runs more engines than anyone on the dyno, and he’s not afraid to test...
How To Build A Screw Tank, Part Two: Gearboxes And Chassis Creation!
Looking at Colin Furze, and knowing why the Internet knows this man’s name, you would think that it would be a bad idea to ask him to create a tank, right? Yeah. Don’t sweat that, he was...
Engine Teardown Video: Watch The Hagerty Crew Pull Down Their Buick Straight Eight Project Engine
The latest entrant into the Redline Rebuild series from Hagerty is a Buick straight eight engine that came out of an early 1950s Super convertible that is also being restored. We told you about it...
