Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos
Buick V6 Build: The L67 Gets Introduced To It’s New Home!
Scotty’s L67 Buick V6 build is probably my favorite project going this year that doesn’t involve me sweating my fat ass off in the Kentucky heat and humidity. I enjoy the 3.8L...
Ford Diesel Revival, Round Two: How Do You Start A Truck Hell-Bent On Staying Dead?
Two years ago, I saw one of Kevin’s earliest revival videos, the one that involved him chasing a pissed-off possum from the engine nest it had made on a Fiat 850 Spyder. Back then, not many...
Baby Huey Inbound: The One Time A C-130 Hercules Performed Carrier Operations!
The sheer scope of size that an aircraft carrier brings to the table defies belief. Even if you go back over fifty years ago, the aircraft carriers of the day were something to behold. Holding nearly...
Roaring Ford: Watch This 445ci Ford Make 845 Naturally Aspirated Horsepower On The Dyno – Ooga Booga!
Scott Shafiroff is a guy who’s well know among drag racers and in the drag racing world because of his stellar career and because he has built one of the premier engine houses in the sport....
Slow Air In – Fast Air Out: This 60+ Year Old Film About Gas Turbines Is Awesome, Great History, Tech, More
While theory and ideas that make gas turbine engine function have long been known by humanity, it was really little more than 100 years ago that people had the means to make them into anything that...
Dyno Video: Watch A Totally Pissed Off Ford ‘Ute With A Twin Turbo Six Cylinder Make Nearly 900hp To The Tire!
Here’s further proof that turbos are pretty much the cure for all of the world’s ills and that the make every damned thing better. This video is from Australia and it shows a really clean...
Making Donuts: The Entire Coverage From The Burnout Rivals Event At The Freedom Factory!
From the moment I saw a Holden Monaro go so hard that it was breathing purple fire out of the pipes by the time the show was over, Australian-style burnout contests were going to be a thing in my...
Short Stack Torque Maker: This Blown 400ci Small Block Chevy Makes 681hp and All The Twist
Meh, a 680hp small block you say. Why bother watching the video, right? Just another engine that doesn’t make 1,000hp and doesn’t cause some dude’s YouTube project to pull a flaming...
Memory Test: The 1993 MotorWeek Road Test Of A Ford Escort GT Proved Our 13 Year Old Opinions Correct
I was 13 in 1993 when this car came out and I didn’t really like it when I first saw it. That’s a fact. It made me smile when this video came up on the MotorWeek Channel though because it...
More Mickey: This 1990s Profile Of Mickey Thompson Is Filled With Old Footage We’ve Never Seen
A couple of weeks ago, we directed you to check out the little mini-documentary that Freiburger had made about Mickey Thompson and his quest to run 400mph on the salt. Well today we’re back...
The Challenger Revival, Part 19: Air Conditioning And The Reconstruction Of The Dash
Dylan McCool and I have several things in common: a strong Mopar streak, a love of the open road, and we both live in a part of the United States where the summer weather can be described as,...
Flyin’ On Dirt: This 1980s Look At An SCTA El Mirage Meet Rules – Random Andy Granatelli Appearance For The Win!
This year in land speed racing has been, well, like all else, strange. Bonneville is still happening however basically all activity at El Mirage has been wiped out. There is all kinds of behind the...
Nitro Time Machine Video: Watch Joe Smith On His King Rat Fuel Bike Win The 1974 US Nationals
When a sport like drag racing grows and evolves, things change and sometimes they simply go away. In today’s world of NHRA drag racing we have the Mickey Thompson top fuel Harley-Davidson...
Until Old Age Takes Them Back To The Weeds: Digging Through An Abandoned Junkyard In England
This video takes me back to my childhood…namely, the days where I’d prowl around in the woods between Olalla and Bremerton, Washington hunting the wrecks and abandoned cars left in the...