Category Archive: ENGINE, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
Have You Been Using The Wrong Hose Clamps? According To This Guy, Yes. What Do You Think?
You know how you are watching some video on YouTube, get distracted, and then all of a sudden another video starts playing? Of course you do. Well that’s what happened to me that got me...
Alex Taylor’s 6 Second ’55 Chevy Project Is Coming Along, But The New Decklid Needed Some Mods!
The project is still moving right along, but there isn’t much time before it is supposed to hit the road! There has been a ton of work done already, but it isn’t ready to run just yet. That...
Compression Testing Junkyard Engines, In The Junkyard. Know What You Are Getting Before You Buy, Because This Engine Is Junk!
Here’s another junkyard video from Richard Holdener, the king of junkyard horsepower, and one that teaches you how to choose the right engine at the junkyard. This one hits close to home as...
Lazze Metal Shaping: How To Make An Early Ford Pickup Cab Corner From Flat Sheet – Part 1
If you’ve ever looked into sheet metal shaping, then you know the name Lazze. As someone who has always wanted to take the time to learn more about metal shaping, the names Lazze and Covell are...
Find A Traffic Light At The Swap Meet? Here’s How To Restore It
I love finding all kinds of memorabilia and automotive items at the swap meet or flea market. You know, the kind of stuff that you want to put in your shop or hang on the wall in your game room or...
The Tiny Bathroom Is Going In The Car Hauler Trailer Rebuild Project. This Thing Is Going To Be Cool!
In this latest update on the trailer rebuild, Emily and Aaron are hard at work making the bathroom into a reality. They’ve put a ton of work and time into this project and have spent a fair...
Part 2: Tony Stewart’s 300 MPH Internship Continues… What Does His Report Card Say?
Tony Stewart and Leah Pruett are a super power couple, even if Tony never wanted to sit behind the butterfly wheel of a Top Fuel Dragster. But because he does, and because he’s serious about...
Rocky Mountain Race Week Is Just Three Weeks Away! Watch This To Get Answers To Questions! AND YES WE ARE LIVESTREAMING IT!
Last night Adam Dorey, the voice of Rocky Mountain Race Week, and I did a Countdown to Rocky Mountain Race Week livestream on Facebook to answer questions and talk about the event. We’re...
The Gambler: This 1950s Caterpillar Safety Video Pulls No Punches!
There are a million ways to teach a lesson, right? You can teach is as a parable, you can show examples, or you can really lay it on and go for maximum impact. The last strategy is apparently what...
Eat This, Nader: Waking Up A Dusty Corvair And Bringing It Out Into The Light
The Corvair, one of the precious few times a GM product did not truly deserve the skewering that it got in the press. The story is familiar enough to most, so here’s the short take: GM builds a...
The Mad Fabricators Are Recreating Tweedy Pie: It’s A Hot Rod, Not A T-Bucket!
Here it is, the history of Tweedy Pie, a Model T Ford roadster hot rod that would change the car world forever, and would inspire millions of hot rods that would come after it. Not only was this car...
$1,000 Build: This Inspiring, And Legit, F100 Build Is Close To Done And All For Less Than A Grand!
If you aren’t inspired by other folks projects, and especially those done with lots of ingenuity and creativity, then you are not our people. This is a project that definitely inspires us and...
Watch These Incredible Miniature Engines Drive Two Small Variable Pitch Props – BangShifty Zen!
There are few things more interesting to us than miniature engines. Why? For starters they are all handcrafted by their owners and there’s no “store” to get stuff. You want to make...
