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HOW TO READ A TURBO COMPRESSOR MAP. WHAT IS THE MAX EFFICIENCY ISLAND? HOW MUCH BOOST & POWER?

Richard Holdener is back at it with even more fun turbo tech. While turbo sizes are pretty simple, compressor maps are not necessarily as easy to understand. If you have an engine that can use a 76...

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IHRA Outlaw Nitro Professional And Pro Am Drag Racing Photos From The Darana Motorsports Park at GALOT.

(Photos by David Whealon) If you live under a rock and haven’t realized how huge of a splash the IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series made in 2025, then are you in for a treat! With amazing events, huge...

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Will This 40 Year Old RV That Derek Bought SIGHT UNSEEN, RUN, DRIVE And CAMP 850 Miles Home?

Derek from Vice Grip Garage has had some pretty interesting adventures on the road behind the wheel and underneath some pretty interesting rides. He is the king of taking the gamble, but he nearly...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million’s Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Tuesday

It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring Fling Million. We love this event...

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IHRA Acquires Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School, Preserving a Legendary Legacy While Expanding the Future of Driver Development

FAIRFIELD, OH — March 31, 2026 — The International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) today announced the acquisition of Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School, one of the most respected and influential...

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Where’s Larry? Exploring Late Night Car Culture in Tokyo with The Nissan Party at 7 Eleven

The Nissan Party at 7/11 kind of reminds me of our meetups at Taco Bell or Circle K back in my street racing days, but when you first hear it you certainly don’t think this is a MUST STOP place...

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Sick Summer Day 5 Video From 1320Video And Alex Taylor Racing: Destroying A Car TWICE In One Day Just To Finish, And Somehow Finishing With A Win!

Sick Summer, the latest event from the folks at Sick The Magazine, just started up this week and we’ve got video to share from our friends over at 1320 Video and Alex Taylor Racing. They are...

Great Chase: The Campy But Still Awesome Car Chase From The Stallone Movie “Cobra”

The Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra may be mostly unwatchable dreck, but I like the car chase in it, despite the fact that there’s a fair amount of campy weirdness throughout. The reason I like...

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The Turbosupercharger: Master of the Skies – Awesome WWII Film – Boost FTW Against the Axis!

The awesome power potential of the turbocharger is on full display these days. From little production engine to mighty racing mills, turbos are everywhere. Turbos were not widely used by anyone in...

Gearhead History: A Look At The Classic American Gas Station Through Photos From 1900-1945

The gas station has been a big part of American life since automobile ownership exploded in the early parts of the 20th century. Over the years these places evolved from greasy, grimy shacks on the...

Mud Master: Watch This Loaded Logset 6F Skidder Merrily Chug Through DEEP Gumbo

Europeans always have more refined names for stuff than we do, seemingly. Here? We call machines like this log skidders, the machines designed to drag felled trees out of their natural habitat and to...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Are These The Right Wheels And Tires? Plus More Work On The Custom Rocker Panel Running Boards

In the last video or two, Brent worked on several different things and ultimately got the air ride system in the truck and working which we so dig. In this one he’s finishing up some work on...

Sick Summer Day 4 Video From 1320Video And Alex Taylor Racing: An Epic Thrash To Stay Alive, And An Epic T-Bone Crash And Rollover On Track!

Sick Summer, the latest event from the folks at Sick The Magazine, just started up this week and we’ve got video to share from our friends over at 1320 Video and Alex Taylor Racing. They are...

Influence and Impact Episode 23 – The History Of Epic and Cliche Car Chase Movies, And Behind the Scenes of Stunt Cars Past And Present

America’s love of the automobile, and the infatuation with the iconic styling and performance American cars have historically embodied has never been more prevalent than in the movies of the...

10,000 RPM Feature Video: Gerry Waddell’s HIGH RPM 1970 Chevy Nova At The 2024 Stick Shift Nationals Drag Race At Farmington Dragway

Growing up in a stick shift drag racing family means that cars like Gerry Waddell’s bad ass Nova really get me going. This thing is epic, he drives it old school, and while it does have a...

Why Would Someone Do This To ANY Truck Cab, Let Alone A C10? Newbern Is Going To Try And Save It… But How? Butchered Doesn’t Begin To Describe It.

Sometimes you come across potential projects that just look too weird and messed up to be saved. This C10 is one of them. With a top that has been “chopped” in all the wrong ways, and all...

Wonderfully Weird Wagon: The 1989 Spoilers Plus Aero GT Was A Fun Take On A Ford Taurus Wagon

Isn’t it fun when you get reminded of something that you forgot about or better yet learn something that you never knew was a thing in the first place? That’s the case with this video...

Watch The Pink Panther Get Waxed In A Street Race By An Old Lady In A Sleeper

You know that we’re not huge street racing advocates around here but in the realm of the cartoon world? We’ve got no issues with that, especially when it involved the iconically cool Pink...

Crank Up The Speakers: Watching and Listening To This Allard J2R At Goodwood In 1999 Is So Awesome – Cadillac Power!

Sydney Allard was one heck of a guy. He was the founding father of drag racing in England, was an awesome engineering, and came up with an epic blueprint on how to build a car that people would love....

Unhinged: Power Tour 2024, From The Eyes Of A First-Timer

I remember seeing the call-out in Hot Rod magazine: how would you like to take your street machine, 4×4, whatever you’ve got that’s cool, and join the magazine staff on a trip from...