Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos
Morning Symphony: The Aston Martin Valkyrie’s Cosworth V-12 At 11,000 RPM
In the game of high-dollar exotics, hypercars, and the like nothing is off-limits. Work with whoever, build whatever, just make sure it’s gorgeous to a fault, beyond reproach for speed, and...
Overkill: Twin LS4s Crammed Into An Acura RSX Should Be Fun!
What makes an ordinary, sane individual look at the project car they have going and mutter to themselves, “You know what? I know what this thing needs…another freaking engine. Yeah,...
Flying Cars Video: Free Life Films Collection Of Cars Launching Skyward Is Impressively Insane
The modern landscape of drag racing looks lots different than it did even 20 years ago, especially when we look at performance. Full bodied cars on comparatively tiny rear tires are doing things that...
Video: 2018 JE Pistons Masters of Motors At SEMA – Picking The Coolest Engines At The Show!
2018 has been a killer year for experiencing and being involved in cool stuff. A personal highpoint was being part of the judging panel for an innovative new awards program that JE Pistons came up...
Thunderstruck: Cleetus’ Auction Corvette Has One Hell Of A Backstory! Hear How The Truck-Engined C6 Came To Be!
Every car has a story. Someone built it, someone bought it as a brand-new car and from the moment it rolled out of the dealership, the chapters unfold. Some cars have nice, boring lives of just...
Crazy Video: Here’s Why You Never Want To Crash A T-Bucket – These Guys Lived
This is the type of video that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up when you watch it and not for great reasons. Shot in South Africa about a year ago, things open up with an older guy...
Playing With Yourself: Watch As The Hoonigans Play Forza Horizons 4 With Their Own Cars!
I don’t know about you, but if my car ever made it into a videogame, I’d lose my mind waiting for the first chance to test out moves that I’d never, ever attempt in real life....
35th Anniversary: The Theatrical Trailer For John Carpenter’s “Christine”…She’ll Get You!
If you are a reader of this site and you know nothing of a 1958 Plymouth named Christine…you had better be young. December 9th marks the 35th anniversary of the release of John...
Morning Symphony: The Highland Park Hummingbird In The Wintertime
FCA has done well in the horsepower war. They have a range that goes from sensible to seriously insane, have a lineup that includes a two-door, four-door, and an SUV wagon with 707 horsepower, trucks...
The Small-Track Hit: Spectator Racing At New Smyrna Speedway Takes A Sacrifice
Spectator racing is one of those strange events that we aren’t sure if we approve of or not. Seeing a couple of ratty third-gen F-bodies try to outgun the other at a circle track in a spectator...
Military Truck Revival: Bringing A Kaiser Jeep Back To Life After A Long Nap
The Jeep Gladiator…good lord, if there was ever a tank of a pickup truck, the ones that Kaiser-Willys cranked out for the U.S. military were certainly fitting of the phrase. There are many good...
Requiem For A Beater: A Tribute Video For The “Rotstang”
You know that it’s about time to let a car go when the rust is so bad that the door won’t close when you are sitting in the seat. But in some cases, it can be very hard to admit that...
A Moment Of Zen: An Untouched Barn Find, And It’s First Wash
They might still be out there, but locating that one-in-a-million untouched barn find that isn’t reduced to paper-thin metal and a useful VIN tag is getting rarer by the day for the kinds of...
Great Idea Office, Nitrous Division: Cleetus And Crew Hit The Dyno With The Auction Corvette
Credit to Cleetus for making lemonade out of lemons here. We told you last week about how, in a moment of full impulse, he bought a C6 Corvette that had taken a mild tap up front from an auction for...