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Category Archive: MOPAR, TECH, Videos

Wheels And Tires, A Disc Brake Conversion, And An Engine That Won’t Self-Destruct Go Into Hot Rod Garage’s Demon 340!

We’ve gotten to see the full transformation of Tony Angelo’s 1971 Dodge Demon 340, from a non-runner that had been in storage for a long time to the moment where the 340 itself decided to...

MORE: MOPAR, TECH, Videos

Roadkill! The Guys Take Their Circle-Track Racer And Slap Most Of A Monte Carlo On Top, Then Street-Drive The Whole Thing!

It is honestly quite impressive that Finnegan and Freiburger actually had a car that the legal team at TEN refused to let them drive on the street. A few years ago, they had bought an amateur-level...

Best of BS 2015: Bob Glidden’s Rollcage-Breaking Thunderbird Barrel Roll At Atlanta in 1986

Crashing a Pro Stock car hard enough to blow the body off of the chassis would seem to be the point where a long hospital stay would be required, right? Especially when the crash involves the track...

Best Of BS 2015: We’d Ask For The Dashcam Footage From This Truck Vs. Giant Sawblade Accident, But All We’d Hear Is Screaming

It’s not photoshop. That is a big-ass saw blade jammed two feet deep into the nose of a JMC truck in China. Just when you thought Russia had the market cornered on strange automobile accidents,...

Best Of BS 2015: Here’s All The Fun You Could Be Having If You Jammed A Blown 5.4L V8 Into A Crown Victoria

“Quickcrownvic” took one look at his Ford Crown Victoria and sighed. The 4.6L V8 just wasn’t doing the trick anymore. At maybe 240 horsepower on a good day, there just wasn’t...

Best Of BS 2015: Bugs Bunny Lives! Watch This Rabbit Mess With A Delivery Van In Scotland!

Nobody wants to run over an animal with a car…well, nobody sane, anyways. But it happens…everything from the deer you never saw coming, to the possum you didn’t see laying in the...

Brutal! Listen To This 428ci Twin-Turbo Windsor Ford That Nelson Racing Engines Put Together Scream On A 1500HP Dyno Run!

Nelson Racing Engines knows how to make a motor that can terrify even the most jaded driver. From racers all over the country to what might be their most famous build, David Freiburger’s...

MORE: ENGINES, Videos

Pro UTV Racing? Hell Yes! Take A Look At The Action From The West Georgia Mud Park!

The first UTV I ever operated was a Polaris Ranger 6×6 in Iraq. It had been brought over by a unit and when they redeployed home, they decided to leave it behind, so we scooped it up and used it...

The Last Thing You Ever Want To See While Canyon-Carving Someone Else’s 800HP Lamborghini Is A Guy Dragging A Log Just Around The Next Corner!

I’m one of those guys who handles other people’s cars with kid gloves unless I’m specifically directed not to. It has a lot to do with the fact that there is no freaking way in hell...

This Is What Happens When You Let Idiots Tow Stuff! Scary Entertainment

After my rant the other day about people towing stuff wrong and not knowing how to back up, I got an email from BangShifter extraordinaire Greg Rourke who said he had something good and entertaining...

Dyno Video: This AMC Spirit Is Kicking Out 433 Horsepower At The Wheels – Bet It’s A Lot Of Fun On The Street!

When you review the history of American Motors, it becomes apparent that making it to 1987 was actually nothing short of a miracle. After reaching their height about 1971 or so, AMC took a steady...

MORE: AMC, MISC, Videos

Outlaw Mud Truck Fun – D.O.T. Legal Tires And A Heavy Right Foot Makes For Some Excellent Video!

Wide open throttle on a full-kill race vehicle isn’t something that is achieved often, and when it is the results are always spectacular. Mud trucks do a good job of converting the raw power of...

Classic YouTube: Breaking In The New Dyno By Running A Nitrous-Sniffing Lawnmower On The Rollers!

You wake up early in the morning and prepare yourself for a long day of work. It will be worth it, you tell yourself. The new DynoJet will be done today. You will get all of your friends together,...

Engine Masters Takes On One Of The Biggest Arguments In The Game: Carb or EFI?

With the last carbureted cars in the United States falling under Model Year 1990, it would seem that fuel injection should have a stronger presence in the aftermarket. Yet often we hear of the...