Tag Archive: camaro, Car Junkie TV, Challenger, chevelle, chevy nova, classic cars, drag racing, driving school, el camino, hot rods
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...
2011 PRI Show Coverage: Our Big Thursday Gallery
We hit the floor of the 2011 PRI show here in Orlando, Florida hard today. This gallery will kick off our coverage and we’ll follow it up with a bunch of specific blog items on cool cars,...
Dyno Video: PAR Racing Engines Builds a Brodix Based Small Block – Makes more than 1100 Horsepower
While we’re throwing the whole “small block” term around here on the blog today, we wanted to show you a real romper stomper of a motor built by the dudes at PAR Racing Engines....
GM Builds 100-Millionth small block engine — Not V8 – Just Engine
The GM PR department shot out a release the other day announcing that the General had produced their 100-millionth small block “engine”. That last part is important. They didn’t...
Crazy Video: Evidence of Why Russian Drivers Suck Ass at Driving
We’ve run a ton of videos featuring the ineptitude of Russian drivers. They suck on dry pavement, the rain, especially in the snow, and telling you they blow on ice would just be wasting...
Updated: The 2011 Houston Autorama – Galleries One-Two- and Now Three!
Last weekend the Houston Autorama went down and our man Charles Wickam was on the scene to cover the show literally from setup to tear down. The man went bat poop crazy with his camera, submitting...
Breaking News: Austin Healey Involved in 1955 LeMans Wreck to be Auctioned – Most Dubious Surviving Race Car in History
The Austin Healey 100S driven by British racer Lance Macklin in the 1955 24 Hours of LeMans, and more importantly, the very car that Pierre Levegh hit before cartwheeling into the grandstand and...
Driveway Tech: Attempt One at Freeing Stuck Piston Rings – Did We Succceed?
Everyone says that buying a ganny fresh old car is the best. They are one owner, low mileage gems that granny ony drove to bingo and her Wednesday hair appointment. There can be a problem with...
Cool Video: Brett Voelkel of Air Ride and Lingenfelter Performance Engineering Hook Up To Hot Rod A CTS-V
Here’s a video that falls into the “how to make a good thing better” department. When our pal and OG BangShifter Brett Voelkel scooped up a used Cadillac CTS-V we knew that it would...
BangShift Question of the Day: What is the Most Important Race in the World?
By the time you read this, I’ll be in the sky, on my way to the 24th annual Performance Racing Industry show in Orlando, Florida. For the rest of the week the blog will be filled with racing...
Racing Junk Find: More Pro Street Mini-Van Love – A Yellow Dodge With a Bowtie Heart
After yesterday’s peek at the street/strip Astro van we thought we had found the pinnacle of mini-van bad-assery. By complete chance a couple of key strokes on RacingJunk.com netted us...
Aeromotive Hires Chuck Samuel as Crew Chief of the Aeromotive Ford Mustang Pro Mod
Big news from our friends at Aeromotive fuel systems today as they have hired Chuck Samuel, one of the great door slammer racers and engine builders of the last 20 years to be the crew chief on the...