Category Archive: TECH, Tech Stories
Welding Up Big Gaps Can Be A Challenge. Here’s How To Master It
Tubing can be some of the most rewarding and challenging things to weld. But no matter how much time you spend fitting tubing, there are still so many joints in a typical cage or chassis that at some...
Side-By-Side Knockout Hillclimbing! Watch These Bouncer Racers Drag Race Up The Devil’s Staircase!
Drag racing is often called out as the simplest motorsport: point nose in the right direction, stand on gas, don’t crash, repeat. We know that’s really simplified, just like we know that...
Donk, Meet Swamp Donkey: A Blown LS7-Powered Caprice On 26s vs. A Mega Truck In A Tug-Of-War
Before the comments come rolling in, let’s settle this now: ditch the wheels for anything else, ditch the grille inserts for anything else, and many of you would sell your young into slavery...
Ten Seconds In Ten Days: The Aussies Are Coming With One Built FPV F6 Ute!
If this Ford Performance Vehicles ute was one generation older, it would be called a “Typhoon”, the Pacific equivalent of a hurricane. But be it called F6, Falcon, or “really,...
Can A Boring 1999 Camry Actually Make It As A Race Car Or Is It Now Just A Noisemaker?
Let me introduce you to a pet peeve of mine: the phrase “race car”. Specifically, this term that people use to describe a gutted, loud machine that most people would’ve happily...
Heavyweight Contenders: These Jeep SRT8s Are Two Of The Baddest In The Nation!
The black one is an all-wheel-drive monstrosity that simply digs down and gets the show on the road. The wrapped one used to be all-wheel-drive and just as nasty, but is now on the hunt for the seven...
The Guided Tour: Check Out This Speed Shop And Listen To This 611ci Hemi Scream!
When the day comes that one of us ever lands in Australia…oh, readers…we might not sleep the duration of the trip. Of course we’d find a burnout contest and go blower-counting. Of...
Classic YouTube: You’ve Heard Of Log-Rolling…But What About Log-Jumping?
Here’s a great scenario for you. You’re traveling upstream along a small river in a wooded area in a jet boat. You encounter a log straddling the entire width of the river, bank to bank....
Classic YouTube: The 1971 Ford Transit Supervan – Part GT40, Part Mental Instability
It is strange to think that 1971 was a year that pretty much saw the end to a wild party that had been raging more or less since 1965. What had been wild times that saw advancements in music,...
Over 240 MPH In A Half Mile – Sal Patel’s Viper Is A Freaking Beast!
The V-10 engine that is used in the Dodge Viper (and the V-10 truck block used in Rams) owes it’s existence to the LA 360ci small-block. While saying that the V-10 is a 360 with two more...
7.0 @ 199 MPH: The “KING32” Skyline GT-R Is Out For Blood!
Nissan Skyline GT-Rs are the one of the best jokes the Japanese ever played on the world. What damage could a six-cylinder sports coupe do? Plenty. In stock form it was like any of the other bubble...
Sharpening Tungsten Correctly, And Using The Right Cup, Can Be The Difference Between Okay And Awesome TIG Welds
Sometimes it is hard to know what to believe when it comes to welding prep. I say this, because sometimes the things you hear sound so weird that they couldn’t possibly be true. Other things...
Minty Fresh And Potent: This Buick Regal Is Nitrous Blasted And Ready For War!
Here’s one of the strangest introductions I’ll ever write involving a car: think back to the first time you tried a serious mouthwash. Not the kid’s stuff that tasted like...
Classic YouTube: Getting Rowdy In A 1959 Buick! Who Knew That Big Barge Could Drift Like That?
Some cars have their appropriate roles. A Chevy Cavalier is cheap transportation. A Dodge Caravan is a people-shuttle. A Ford Mustang is a riot control device. And a 1959 Buick that is still running...