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When we last covered Dave’s 1977 Celica he was deciding which engine to swap into it. Since then he has released several videos showing the teardown, suspension and sound deadening material removal. ...
A customer sent their 1964 Chevrolet C-10 truck to V8 Speed & Resto Shop in Red Bud, Illinois for a complete restoration. The team started by notching the frame which would allow the truck to sit abo...
This Pro-street 1982 Volkswagen Vanagon is currently for sale in Detroit with a asking price of $4200 OBO or trade with minimum of $2K cash. In the middle of the van is a 358 ci small-block Chevy V8 ...
Southern California builder Mitch Allread is responsible for turning his daily-driven 1968 Toyota Corona coupe into what you see here. He originally designed the car for the Silver State Classic Chal...
GOGI Racing in Podujevo, Kosovo is proving once again with a lot of effort you can swap almost any engine into a vehicle. What you are seeing here is a VW Golf Mk4 with a twin-turbo 5.0 L V10 from a ...
Some of the most interesting engine swap projects come from professional and amateur drifting. Part of the reason is the limited rules and the other is the desire to stand out. Formula Drift driver R...
Our favorite home-built V12 project is back with two updates. Since our previous article the builder has decided to increase the rear wheel size from 28×12 to 31×16. This change required a lot of wor...
One of our favorite projects is back with an update. The Rudezon team took their custom Volvo Amazon 122 powered by a Evinrude 300XP two-stroke V8 out for a test drive. In the previous update they on...
Roush Fenway Racing is developing an inline-six engine for United Launch Alliance’s Integrated Vehicle Fluids program. The goal of the program is to simplify ULA’s Vulcan rocket upper stage propulsio...
This is Charles Warland’s 1975 Datsun 260Z from Queensland, Australia. He started with an orange rolling shell and over three years turned it into what you see. The engine is a Nissan 2.6 L RB26DETT ...
BMW tuner Manhart Performance celebrated their 30th birthday with a limited edition BMW M2 called the MH2 630. The M2 comes from the factory with a turbocharged 3.0 L N55B30T0 inline-six which produc...
This is James Houghton’s incredible fast Acura Integra Type R built for Time Attack racing. To achieve the records this car holds it needed a very powerful engine. Under the hood is a Honda K20/K24 b...
Back in 2013 David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan took the Crusher Camaro and installed a Mast Motorsports LS7 on the PRI show floor in front of fans. You can click on the previous link to see the enti...
This Scion FRS was built by Prime Motoring in Wallington, New Jersey. The project started in 2014 with the intention to run a powerful 2JZ for roll racing. But they soon changed their minds and decid...
Pistonhead Productions unveiled their diesel powered 1990 Mazda Miata drift car at Gridlife. Several months ago they held a crowdfunded campaign to gather enough money to build it and then in June he...
This 1952 Buick Super Riviera is called “Bombshell Betty” and was built and driven by Jeff Brock. He finished work on it in 2009 and set out with a top speed of 130.838 mph. Then in its final year of...
This 1981 Camaro Z28 is owned by Scott Brown and was built by Smitty’s Custom Automotive in Tiffin, Ohio. The original 350 ci V8, which only produced 175 horsepower, has been replaced with a Lingenfe...
This 1993 BMW E34 M5 from Europe is currently for sale out of Rochester, New York with an asking price of $16,500. The original engine has been replaced by a 5.5 L S70B56 V12 from a BMW 850CSi. The r...
The story goes this 1938 BMW 327 Sport Cabriolet was acquired in WWII by a US Army Officer. It was shipped back to the US and after a long period had the 1.9 inline-six engine swapped for a 5.7 L ZZ4...
This 2005 Chevy Colorado was built by Matt Happel at Sloppy Mechanics. The term “sleeper” tends to be overused on the internet but I am positive this truck qualifies. There is absolutely nothing on t...
Backyard Built has put together a swap overview for installing a Toyota 3S-GE BEAMS inline-four and J160 six-speed transmission into a Toyota AE86. The guide goes over the modifications and parts you...
MotiveDVD just released part 6 of their Project Erubisu (Japanese for Elvis) build series. The project involves installing a VR38DETT from an R35 into a R34 Skyline V-Spec with a goal of producing 1,...
When Zach Jeffers set out to build a truck, he wanted something really different. He had seen Ford Rangers with diesel swaps or ones with a dually setups but never one that would combine them all. Za...
The Roadkill boys are back in episode 51 to see if they can deliver on the original seller’s promise of a 10-second car. If you don’t remember the guys purchased a Mazda REPU truck with a 455 Oldsmob...
The last time we saw Arjan Kolkman’s Detroit Diesel hot rod it was waiting on the cab to be painted. Since then the custom hot rod has been finished and recently made its debut at the STP Truck Weeke...