Category Archive: 1320 Spotlight, Apex Spotlight, TECH, XL Spotlight
These Tips Will Help You Weld Chromoly Tubing Like A Pro, Thanks To Tips From Bentley Garner
The welders in my shop are blue, as in Miller, and not only do I prefer the power of blue for my welding projects, but I also find their YouTube Channel to be FULL of great videos. Training videos,...
MAHLE Tech Video: How-To Properly Measure Piston To Bore Clearance
This is a great how-to video and it is an illustration of the steps that dedicated engine builders take when assembling engines. It is not just about bolting stuff together and praying that it works,...
Wheel of Death Starts May 15th! Find Out What Happens When You Run And Engine With No Oil At Full Song
My buddy Richard Holdener is always coming up with funny ideas, and he’s always on the dyno making big power with engine combos of all kinds. Some of them include running junkyard motors with...
The Crown Hick Is Finished! Hot Rod Garage’s Frame-Swapped Ford F-100 Is A Riot!
The “Crown Hick” project that the fellas at Hot Rod Garage have been working on for a bit is finished up, and it’s a beauty. Using the frame of a Panther platform car to underpin a...
Make Your Own Tow Hitch! Finnegan Shows You How As He Turns His ’55 Gasser Into A Tow Pig!
Here’s a fun fact for you: it was easier to find a tow hitch setup for my Chrysler 300C than it was for my Imperial. That’s no joke. When I moved from Arizona to Kentucky four years ago,...
Body Swap! Hot Rod Garage Blends The Best Parts Of A Ford F-100 And Crown Vic To Make A Shop Truck!
The guys at Hot Rod Garage have been busy lately: between a budget turbo LS rubber-nose Camaro that looks like it was dragged from the scrapyard but runs like a scalded cat, to a big-block Plymouth...
The Maniac Is At It Again: Colin Furze Is Building A Crotch-Rocket Powered Bumper Car!
First thing’s first: the BBC tapped Mr. Colin Furze, the man known for such fun projects as the weaponized Tuk-Tuk and a mobility scooter fast enough to run at Santa Pod, to build something...
Classic YouTube: How To Hot-Rod A Pencil Sharpener Using The Engine From An R/C Car!
The bane of my existence during my school days was the common No.2 graphite pencil. Not the mechanical pencil…no, the cheap, yellow pencils that were given out like free candy at the beginning...
It’s Done! Hot Rod Garage Finishes Up Project Fishtail, Their Drift ‘Cuda!
Forty-something days to take a shell of a car from out of a barn and turn it into a stomping drift car from pretty much scratch. Even when you factor out the help with parts or any of the perks of...
Here’s A DIY Air Tool Holder You Can Make At Home With Scraps, But That Really Kicks Ass
I hate messes in the shop, which would surprise you if you saw the inside of mine most of the time. Like most of us, I too am amazingly adept at finding something to sit on every available...
How To Fabricate DIY Threaded Inserts For The Frame Of Your Hot Rod
Matt and the gang at Eastwood are always having fun building cool stuff and showing us how it’s done. In this video he’s making the final preparations for bolting the body of his...
Give The Gift Of Knowledge For Christmas! Kevin Tetz Paintucation DVD’s Help You Do Body And Paint Right
There isn’t much that I won’t tackle on a car project. Even the stuff that scares people a lot, like wiring for example. I’ll do some sheetmetal replacement, although I’ve...
