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DC Garage started a new video series showing the process of replacing the factory 3.7 L V6 with a twin-turbo 3.5 L EcoBoost V6 in a 2012 Mustang. In this episode DC Garage goes over possible coolant ...
The Swedish builder of this BMW E30 M3 was going to use a turbo S14 but since there were a few others in Sweden he didn’t have much motivation to complete it. That is until he came across a V10 from ...
There are builders who create unique projects and then there are those who really think outside the box. Take for example this project built by a teacher in California. He started with a 1979 VW Rabb...
Rolando stopped by The Smoking Tire to let Matt drive his Datsun 260Z. Under the hood sits a 2JZ-GTE sourced from a Toyota Aristo that still retains the factory sequential twin-turbo setup. On the dy...
This 1970 Opel GT owned by Brandon Sutton was filmed at 2016 Goodguys Nashville Nationals competing in the autocross course. The film says the car runs a 6.0 L LSx V8 which means it is probably runni...
When Finnish drifter Mikko Viitala started looking for a new race car he didn’t want to start from scratch and it had to be different. He met both those goals after finding a 1978 Z28 Camaro which ha...
This Lexus IS200 was built by Jaewoo Kim from Motor Klasse in South Korea. Although Lexus did produce a version of the IS200 with a 3G-SE it did not come to South Korea. Instead they received a versi...
This Volkswagen K70 is owned by Pipey McGraw and was built by Coltech Classics in Poole, England. Instead of swapping a powertrain and upgrading components they decided to just swap the body over a m...
Mike Nasiatka has been working off and on for six years turning a 1986 Pontiac Fiero GT into a race car he could use for autocross and road course racing. It has taken that long because nothing on th...
This 2008 Smart Fortwo is owned by Tom Raba and built by AFR Autoworks in Alberta, Canada. Tom might have started with the cheapest Fortwo he could find but after a lot of effort it has transformed i...
I am sure somewhere in the world there is another FWD vehicle powered by a 2JZ but I have never seen one. This wild Toyota Starlet 70 Series is owned by Danish drag racer Jakob Hansen and is running ...
Stephen Strope from Pure Vision Designs stopped by Jay Leno’s Garage to talk about a 1967 Ford Fairlane built by his company. When developing a plan for the project Stephen wondered what a hypothetic...
This 1986 EZ-Go Marathon golf cart is being sold because as the owner states “I’m selling it before I kill myself in it.” This is because instead of the sedate factory engine there is now a 115 horse...
You may not think AMC when talking about Pro-touring but Mark Greenisen sure does. This is Mark’s very unique Pro-touring 1972 AMC Gremlin built by Schwartz Performance in Woodstock, Illinois. Schwar...
DC Garage started a new video series showing the process of replacing the factory 3.7 L V6 with a twin-turbo 3.5 L EcoBoost V6 in a 2012 Mustang. In this video the 3.7 L V6 is out of the Mustang and ...
When we last wrote about HEED-Auto’s AWD VW Scirocco it’s best quarter-mile was 8.181 sec at 281.09 kph (174.6 mph). Recently they broke that record with a 7.973 sec at 282.61 kph (175.6 mph). They c...
Joe Gisler really enjoyed his 1989 Honda Prelude 4WS but unfortunately there wasn’t a lot of off-the-shelf part support in his area. So after selling it he set off to build something that would be ea...
DC Garage started a new video series showing the process of replacing the factory 3.7 L V6 with a twin-turbo 3.5 L EcoBoost V6. The engine was sourced from a wrecked 2014 F-150 truck. Plans call for ...
This 1994 Supra is currently for sale in Oxfordshire, UK with an asking price of £8,750 or approximately $12,639. The owner started with a Supra Mk4 shell that had been stripped and primed poorly. Th...
This custom 1976 Toyota Land Cruiser was built by Andre Allers from Gauteng, South Africa. It took Andre 1,400 man-hours to turn pieces of a FJ45 body into a very wild classic. The body sits on a cus...
Tony and Lucky are back with another episode one their Project Bonemaro drag Camaro. In part one the guys started with a 1979 Camaro for $800 to which they installed a 5.3 L iron-block LM7 for $1,180...
This custom 1937 International truck was built by Northrup Fabricators in Washington. They call it a Trophy Rat because of its patina body and serious offroad underpinnings. The truck rides on a cust...
The owner of this Nissan 350Z really enjoys building projects that are challenging. For example his previous project was a DeLorean with a 2JZ. So after purchasing a clean 350Z he sold the VQ35DE V6 ...
This really doesn’t qualify as an engine swap because of all the custom work but it was so wild and unique I had to write about it. What you are looking at is a custom mud bogger called Mud Slinger. ...
Rocky Auto spent several years developing a Toyota 2000GT replica program and was able to debut it just in time to celebrate the iconic car’s 50th anniversary. Rocky Auto offers two versions of the r...