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Watch This 434ci Small Block Make 1,440hp With Twin Turbos – New Zealand Hot Rodding, Baby!
We’ll save the jokes about the turbochargers spinning in the opposite direction for another day because this little small block is a meanie! Build in New Zealand and packing a set of...
Retro-Review Fun: This 1994 Look At The Then Current Acura NSX Is A Reminder Of How Strange These Cars Were
I remember being a kid when the Acura NSX came out. I remember reading the magazine stories, seeing the stuff on the various car related TV shows, I watched, and talking about it with my fellow car...
QuarantinePiece Theater: This Documentary About Supercharged Grand Prix Cars From The 1920s and 30s Is Fascinating
You all know that we’re freaks for racing history around here, but how far back does it go? I have recently become obsessed with grand prix racing in the 1920s and 1930s leading up to WWII and...
Drag Racing Down South, Way Down South: Check Out This Action From Argentina! Slingshots, Crazy Four Bangers, and More!
Buenos Aires is the capitol city of Argentina and it is home to a quarter mile drag strip. We think the place is called Picadas Galvez and it’s where the video below was shot. This video...
Brutally Cool: This Classic Toyota Corolla Is Packing A Turbocharged Nissan RB Engine And It Is Awesome
There’s always something cool when you find out a car is built by a young guy. Such is the case with this beastly Toyota Corolla in Australia. The car was a four year project for its owner and...
Stealing The Show In Orlando: Watch The Quickest Side By Side Pro275 Pass Ever And Mark Micke’s Record Shattering 3.82 Run!
There are certain times in drag racing where you can actually pinpoint the moment where a class or category put itself onto the map for good. That moment for the Pro275 class happened last weekend at...
Dyno Video: Watch An Original Tucker Make Dyno Pulls – Horsepower and Torque Revealed
We don’t need to recount the story of Preston Tucker and his forward thinking car which was the talk of the late 1940s. The company produced a few dozen models before financially foundering and...
QuarantinePiece Theater: Watch The 1976 NHRA World Finals At Ontario Motor Speedway
While the drag racing world and frankly the rest of the world starts to stir these days, we know many of you are still homebound and that’s why we’re keeping the cool and historic...
The Sweet Sound Of Success: Listen To This Tweaked, Titanium Exhaust Equipped Porsche 997 GT3 Make 420+ Horsepower At 8,100 RPM
This right here is some Friday vibes of the automotive type. The car shown in this video is a Porsche 997 GT3, it’s what we’d technically call a 997.1 because it’s the first...
Damned Yankees: Watch The Semis and Finals Of The 1982 NHRA Winternationals From The British Show World of Sport!
This right here is a good watch. Why? You are going to see some killer classic drag racing and you are going to see it with an intro from the BBC show “World of Sport”. This seems like...
Surprise, MF! Rear-Engined Integra With A Turbocharged V6 In Texas!
Okay, let’s think about something for a moment: If you’re playing the game out in the wild, “going for broke” usually means you’re boosting an engine to the moon, or...
NHRA Insider Podcast: Jason Line Talks Engine Building, Don O’Neal Talks Top Sportsman With A Factory Stock Showdown Engine
A couple of good dudes joined me on the NHRA Insider podcast recently and we had some wide ranging conversations covering everything from engine building to how one takes a factory stock showdown...
Pro Stock In The Living Room: How Is Bruno Massel Getting Ready For His 2020 NHRA Pro Stock Debut? On A Neat Simulator!
In drag racing, reputation is everything. Being able to do the job is one facet of being a professional level competitior but being able to do it consistently is what moves you from good to great....
When The Old Lion Roars: Watch This 1930s Alfa Romeo Grand Prix Car Bellow Up The Hill At Goodwood Sideways!
Old race cars are interesting things. Some of them we love for their bizarre attempts at innovation. Some of them we love because of their stylistic beauty. Some of them we love because of who drove...