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Add Sensors Without Cutting Your Harness! The Holley EFI Power Tap Explained. Technology Is A Wonderful Thing!

Sometimes it boggles my mind when folks start cutting and hacking and rigging up electrical systems in their projects, only to find out that the solution to their problem or dilemma was right in...

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Look at All This Carnage! Cleetus McFarland’s Limo Engine Get’s Pulled Apart At Harrell Engine and Dyno, Plus Mechanical Fuel Inject Tech!

I’ve never known anyone that broke more stuff than Cleetus. He’s got a special talent for flinging the rods out of stuff, and I’m not even talking about the stuff he breaks on...

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This Is Italy’s ONLY Indy 500 Winning Car: The 1938 Maserati 8CTF takes on the Goodwood Revival.

With all of Italy’s accomplishments in motorsports, it is kind of hard to believe that the only italian car ever to win the Indy 500 is this 1938 Maserati. I guess it kind of makes sense since...

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Nick Taylor Does Sickweek In His Childhood Car With His Dad! Awesome Drag and Drive Adventures With Family.

Alex and Dennis weren’t the only parent and child Taylor team out at Sick Week 2026 as Nick Taylor was also out with his dad. Nick, often referred to as Nickky Bobby, decided to do it a little...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Chassis Fabrication: Back In The Shop With Shannon Campbell For A New Build

Shannon Campbell is back at it after King of the Hammers in California, and despite breaking some stuff during the Race of Kings, he’s ready to get back at it with some new projects at the...

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Leah Pruett Makes Her Dodge TSR NHRA Top Fuel Return After Two-year Hiatus, Teams Up with Four-time Champ Matt Hagan at Season-opening NHRA Gatornationals

Leah Pruett makes her NHRA Top Fuel return, after a two-year break, at the upcoming NHRA Gatornationals on March 5-8 in the nitro-burning Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Dodge dragster Pruett, a 12-time...

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Engine Build Update: The Hagerty Cadillac 365 Gets The Block Painted, Bearings and Crank Installed!

The Hagerty Cadillac 365 build is coming along nicely. In fact, the whole thing is kind of glided along like the Cadillac it’s going to be installed in will, once the job is done. The block...

The Mazda MX-6 Was A Ford Probe By Any Other Name – A Moderately Odd 1990s “Sporty Car”

Back in the late 1990s I worked as a camp counselor for a summer. A girl who lived in my town also worked there so we’d car pool out with a few other kids. At the time I had a 3rd Gen Camaro...

This Gallery Of Trucks From Lone Star Throwdown 2021 Makes Me Feel Nostalgic

Why is it that half the time you are at a show you are looking at a truck thinking you’d love to have something like that someday and the other half you are wishing you had something like you...

This 1969 Dodge A108 Ambulance Van Is Original And Ultra Rad.

Original old city, county, and state vehicles have always been cool finds as are utility trucks, railroad vehicles, etc. Hell, anything with a logo on the side of it makes everyone drool....

What Have You Done?! Richard Holdener Tries To Fix The Miss In His Slant 6 And It Ended Up Like This.

Richard is always testing LS, Small Blocks, Big Blocks, Mod Motors, Hemis, and more, but he also digs testing what he calls “The Other Guys”. And in pursuit of awesome testing and fun, he...

OG Murder Nova Update! The New Paint Is Done And The Car Is Going Back Together

A couple weeks ago we posted up an update on the New, aka NPK, Murder Nova and it’s new paint job. Some people were not happy about it, so when we posted up that the OG Murder Nova was getting...

Tips And Tricks For MIG Welding A Roll Bar, Roll Cage, Or Other Tubing Projects

We’ve watched Matt from Urchfab build all kinds of fun stuff, and I can tell you that he has some pretty smart methods. I’ve watched him long enough to realize that his little habits,...

Introducing: Project Beachcomber, our 1979 Dodge Ramcharger

It’s been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It’s also been said that everything is better topless. For both of these reasons, you’re now reading about the latest addition...

Watch a Massive Russian Kamaz Dakar Rally Truck Haul Ass Through the Streets of Moscow

The Russian Kamaz truck has long been a staple at the infamous Dakar rally. The huge, beastly machines are known for being virtually indestructible and for packing more than 1,000 turbo-diesel...

Cool Historic Video: A US Navy Promotional Film About PT Boats, True 3000HP Hot Rods From Hell

They were 3,000hp wooden-hulled harbingers of doom for the enemies of the Allies during WWII. True hot rods of the sea, the PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats were capable of attacking and sinking ships far...

EPIC BUILD: Off-Roading College Student Converts School Bus Into Camper And Toy Hauler Combo For His Jeep

I’m a fan of schoolies, and really like the ones that guys are making into schoolie toy haulers. If you don’t know what a schoolie is, it is a converted school bus rv. Take one cheap and...

Which One Is Gooder?! 6.0L LY6 vs 6.2L LS3-LOW BUCK LS vs MO BUCK! (THEN BOOST)

6 liter, 6 liter, 6 liter, if I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times that there is nothing finer for junkyard boost than a 6.0 LS. On the other side is every Camaro or Corvette...

More Than $125,000 On The Line At The SFG Season Kick-Off Bracket Race LIVE

If you missed Friday or Saturday’s action, click play below to watch it all on replay, but if you are here for Sunday’s racing action, the player is below! Great LIVE bracket racing is...

Big Money Footbrake Drag Racing Is LIVE Right Here! The St. Patrick’s Triple 10s Is On!

Sunday’s racing action is LIVE right here from the St. Patrick’s Triple 10s big money Footbrake event, but if you missed any of Friday or Saturday’s action the replay is below too!...