Category Archive: OTHER, Tech Stories
It Came From the Fab Shop: Tools Even Better Than Hammers
(By Loren Krussow) – If you’re anything like me, the first time you took a hammer to a piece of sheetmetal intending to make something out of it you were a little miffed at the result....
It Came From the Fab Shop: The Speculative Disc-Brake Shield
(By Loren Krussow) – Many people are familiar with the term “spec house.” When a home builder has extra time or capacity they may, without an order on the books, speculatively construct a...
It Came from the Fab Shop: Homemade Wheel Spacers
(By Loren Krussow) – I do not work in a state-of-the-art, high-tech shop. I wouldn’t knock it, though, for the purpose of making just one or two of something there are actually only a...
Video: Check Us Out on SetYourTiming.com
One of the businesses I’ve got going on is called Boondoggle Media, a video production company for gearheads using the old AV Kids who you may remember from CarJunkieTV. So far we’ve done...
Deep Inside Darren Tedder’s 654ci, E85-Burning, 1,261HP Hemi!
Darren Tedder owns what’s probably the cleanest 8-second ’71 Cuda ever. He was a Top 10 finisher in the 2006 Hot Rod Pump Gas Drags, where we got to know him a little, and had his car...
Homegrown IRS for a ’66 Dodge Dart
This is pretty fascinating and well done! A guy named David Belau is blogging over at CarDomain.com about how he’s installing a ’93 Thunderbird SuperCoupe IRS unit under his autocrossing...
New Gallery: 25 Paint Ideas
As a guy who can’t own a shiny car, it’s a little surprising that I snap photos of paint ideas everywhere I go. It’s the editor in me, wanting to share all these car-related...