Cool Video: An Awesome Demonstration of the Shock Wave Generated by Top Fuel Dragsters
One of the great pleasures that any long time drag racing fans has is dragging a couple of buddies to a race that have never experience a Top Fuel Dragster in person before. I’ve been lucky...
PRI 2011: The New V10 Drag Pack Challenger of Big Daddy Don Garlits
Don Garlits has been racing his V8 Drag Pack Challenger for a couple of seasons now and apparently it was getting a little long in the tooth. We only say that because the fine folks at Mopar were...
Mighty LSX454R Drag Race Engine Now Available From GM Performance Parts
Christmas has come a couple weeks early for fans of General Motors muscle. During a conversation with Dr. Jamie Meyer, he let us know that this week the woolly LSX454R drag race engine would be...
PRI 2011: Taj MaHaul – A Look Inside A Massive Featherlite Race Trailer
The humble race trailer has certainly evolved over the years. From what were basically glorified car dollies in the 1950s and 1960 to ramp trucks both open and enclosed in the late 1960s all the way...
Mama Mia: Massive Exotic Car Crash in Japan Kills Eight Ferraris – A Lambo – Two Mercedes
An exotic car club outing gone horribly wrong resulted in the destruction of eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini, and a couple of high dollar Mercedes on a Japanese highway over the freshly completed...
Rules Announced For 2012 Engine Masters Challenge – Big Cubes and Big Power on the Way!
One of the myriad of announcements made at the 2011 PRI show was the official unveiling of the rules for the ever popular Engine Masters Challenge put on by Popular Hot Rodding Magzaine. PHR’s...
Event Coverage: 2011 John Force Holiday Car Show
Every December the car junkies of Southern California come out in force, pun intended, for the John Force Holiday Car Show. Celebs of all kinds, including some of the most famous cars on the planet,...
More Sexy Parts: Winberg Crankshafts Shows Off Their WinFinish Specially Polished Cranks
In the realm of speed parts we aspire to own, a Winberg crankshaft is right up there. If you are using one of these arms in your engine, changes are there’s big boy power being produced....
Caption This Photo: Listen Up, Dummy!
When I first entered the 2011 PRI show, a few minutes after the doors were opened, many companies were still thrashing to get their booths and displays set up. I was walking down one of the aisles...
Dyno Video: Watch an LS Powered S10 Truck Scream With Open Pipes on a Mustang Dyno
Outside the main convention center building here in Orlando there are several dynos set up. Virtually every dyno company we’ve ever heard of his a display at the show, but a few of them took...
Sexy Parts: The Harrop Performance Hurricane Individual Throttle Body Intake Manifold For LS3-LS7 Engines
We completely understand that the point of bolting high performance parts to your hot rod is to make it faster, but hey, looks still count for something. Proof of that came to us in the form of this...
Dana Corp Rolls Out New Crate Axle Line – From the 30 to the 80 They are All Available
When gearheads get together and talk about axles (and yeah, we do that from time to time) the Dana Corporation name pops up frequently. Jeep guys love their 30s and 44s. Drag racers and Mopar freaks...
Jet Hot Will Host Their Own Autocross Series and Run Goodguys Schedule
We were drawn into the Jet Hot booth here at PRI like a moth into fire when we spotted their wicked LS-powered, Detroit Speed suspended, Malibu staring at us. Outside of their already world renowned...
