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Category Archive: TECH, Videos

Carburetor Tech: How To Tune Your Edelbrock Performer Series Carb

This video from the crew at Jegs is going to show you just how to make your Edelbrock Performer Series carburetor perform at it’s best. It covers Idle Mixture, Choke, Metering Rods, Jets,...

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How Much Nitrous Can A 305 Chevy Take Before Things Go Bad? Engine Masters Finds Out!

The 305 Chevrolet V8…it’s not the Rodney Dangerfield of small-block Chevrolets (that honor goes to the 307) but it still has a big issue with reputation. Mostly because it’s...

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Dirt Every Day Gets Ambitious: Cummins-Swap A TJ Wrangler, Then Drive It Underwater!

We have to give credit to Fred and crew for creativity…not that driving underwater is a new thing (it isn’t, the military was doing that decades ago) but simply because it’s...

Hot Rod Garage Gives Their Big-Block Plymouth Fury Wagon A Solid Wake-Up…And, Oh Yeah, Some Brakes, Too.

“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.” It might be the punchline to a comedy flick, but let’s face facts: we wouldn’t have a job if there wasn’t a...

Hot Rod Garage Gets Back To Work On Bringing The Project X 1957 Chevrolet Back To It’s Roots!

Messing with a car as iconic as Project X, the former Popular Hot Rodding 1957 Chevrolet project car, is a dicey affair, especially after tons of money had been thrown at the car to turn it into a...

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This Guy Wants To Hemi-Swap This AMC Hornet, But First Wants To Pump Nitrous Through It…Finnegan Can Help With That!

It’s a faded green American Motors project in Finnegan’s garage…but calm down, it’s not the infamous Gremmie. No, this is a 1972 AMC Hornet Sportabout wagon, chock full of...

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Project X Has Returned! The Legendary 1957 Chevrolet Is Inside Hot Rod Garage For Some Mods…

“Project X”, the bright yellow 1957 Chevrolet that has been a staple of automotive project builds for decades, has returned. It needs no introduction, but it might need a little bit of a...

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How Well Can A New Truck Handle The Weight Of A Slide-In Camper? Check Out How Ford Tests The 2017 Super Duty’s Roll Stability Control System!

You often hear how a manufacturer runs their new, upcoming vehicle through batteries of tests before the first vehicle is ever sold to the public or even lent out to the press. What you don’t...

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Track Time For Hot Rod Garage’s “Bonemaro” Budget Turbo LS Build! Will The Ragged F-body Run 10s?

Take a $10,000 budget, buy one royally clapped out $800 1979 Chevrolet Camaro, one junkyard 5.3L LS V8, an eBay turbo kit meant for a Chevrolet Silverado, and then proceed to hack, weld, bodge and...

Hang Out With Finnegan In His Garage As He Rebuilds The Wood Floor On Roadkill’s Chevy Ramp Truck!

We’re fans of Roadkill, Hot Rod Garage, Roadkill Garage (yes, one of us is buying someone at TEN a snack a month) and all of the fun that they have. But we know that there are days that you...

Is The “Aeroscreen” The Answer To Formula 1’s Safety Issue? Check Out The Testing Footage For Yourself!

After the deaths of IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon (2011), Justin Wilson (2015), Formula 1 driver Jules Bianchi (2015) and the injury sustained by Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa when he was hit by a...

The Most Insane Brit Engineer Has Now Created A Hoverbike! Check Out Colin Furze’s Latest Creation!

Colin Furze is no stranger to BangShift. He’s made some of the most creative vehicles on a whim, from a pulse-jet go kart to a Tuk-Tuk bristling with weaponry, and he attacks each and every...

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Which Is Better, Dual Quads Or Three Two Barrels? Engine Masters Slaps Both On A 383 Stroker To Find Out!

There is just something sinister about knowing that the monster under your hood is packing more than one carburetor. The terms are now legendary: Dual quads. Tri-Power. Six Pack. Say those phrases,...

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Freiburger And Dulcich Rip Apart A Mercury Cougar’s 351 In The Pilot Episode For “Roadkill Garage”!

Can you rip out an engine after work on Friday, rebuild it in over the course of the weekend, and dump it back into the car so that you can drive the car to work on Monday morning? That’s the...

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