Mighty Car Mods is back with another episode on their Gramps Project Car. In case you don’t remember this is a 1995 Subaru Liberty with a EZ36 flat-six engine. In this episode
McChip-DKR is a tuning company in Germany and recently had this Lotus Exige on they dyno to test their upgrades. The car was built by Komo-Tec with a 2.0 L VW TFSI inline-four from a Golf Mk 5. The e...
After doing some spring cleaning on the site I ran across an old article we did on the 1962 VW Bus with a 420 horsepower Porsche 993 twin-turbo engine. I wondered if it was still around since a lot o...
Jan Baker is an amazing engine builder because he has built a V12 from two Ford 302 blocks and three Cleveland heads. The engine has a 4.09″ bore and 3.5″ stroke which produces 552 ci (9.0 L) displac...
Sven-Erik “Svempa” Bergendahl has been building custom Scania semi trucks since 1970. The truck you see here is his latest creation called the Scania Chimera. Every piece on this
Tanner Foust will be returning to Formula Drift this year and will be bringing a wild VW Passat with him. Foust chose to use a Volkswagen because that is what he drives in Global RallyCross Champions...
This Toyota Supra was built by Speed War House and features a 2nd generation V10 from a 1998 Viper GTS. The engine with stock internals is producing 700 horsepower on 6 psi of boost thanks to a 118 m...
Boba Motoring just posted a video of a Volkswagen Golf Mk1 they built with a turbocharged 2.0 L 16V ABF inline-four. These engines were built from 1993-1997 and came from the factory with 150 horsepo...
Since our last update the builder has continued working on the full tube frame, suspension, and plumbing for the two Garrett GTX-3076 turbochargers. If you haven’t been following this project, the bu...
Bobby Underwood’s 1998 Lincoln Mark VIII has had several different engines since it rolled out of the factory. Currently it is running a powerful twin-turbo Coyote V8 running on E85 which produces en...
This 1976 Volkswagen Bus is being built by a creative Australian into an four-wheel drive vehicle powered by a 1995 3.9 L Rover V8. The engine will be located in the middle of the Bus behind the fron...
Team Gårdsdrift is a drift team out of Malvik, Norway. One of their cars is this 1994 Toyota Supra with a twin-turbo 5.3 L LM7 (Vortec 5300) and Tremec TKO-600 transmission. If anyone knows more stat...
This bus served some school district well for many years but now it is serving Bones Fab as a shop truck and rolling billboard. At it’s core is a 1954 Chevy C4500 school
This 1985 Porsche Carrera is the creation of BBI Autosport’s co-owner Joey Seely. The engine is a 3.6 L flat-six from a 1994 Carrera RS America. The engine features a 993 GT3 Cup crankshaft,
This Chevy Colorado was built by The Diesel Shop out of Miami, Florida. Under the hood they installed a long-block 6.6 L Duramax diesel V8 with the accompanying Allison six-speed automatic transmissi...
Tom’s Turbo Garage continues with his LS3 powered Mazda Miata project. In this episode Tom installs the serpentine drive system, headers, drive-by-wire gas pedal, and makes room for
The BMW E39 series came with very wide variety of engines. There were 14 different inline-six and five different V8 engines that found their way into the E39 chassis. This 1999 BMW 525it wagon was a ...
Many readers know Makela Auto Tuning either from their race team or their high quality rally and race car restorations or both. Some might even know of this 1929 Ford Model A project Kari Makela
Nissan built the first generation (A31) Cefiro from 1988 until 1993. During that run the only engines to find their way under the hood were inline-six engines. There was the RB20E, RB20DE, RB20DET, R...
Chris Daley from TP Certified Hot Rods has built one of the wildest engine swap projects in the world. This is a 1967 Chevrolet C10 truck with a air-cooled rotary engine
This 1979 Toyota Corolla with a Mazda 13B rotary engine is being sold on eBay. The Garrett GT45 turbocharger provides 12 psi of boost to give the engine around 485 horsepower. The seller claims the
A month ago Tanner Foust announced he would be returning to Formula D for part of the 2015 season (Long Beach, Atlanta, Irwindale). The car he was going to drive was a 900 horsepower Volkswagen
Shrader Performance completed this project a few years ago but we just discovered it thanks to a tip from a visitor. The 2008 Ford Explorer Sport Trac Adrenalin came from the factory with a 4.6 L 3v ...
The 1970 Daihatsu Hijet originally came from the factory with a two-stroke two-cylinder 360 cc engine. That engine produced 22 horsepower and 25 ft-lb of torque. The Hijet now runs off a 400 horsepow...
AC Schnitzer is a tuning company known for upgrading BMWs and that is exactly what they have done with their ACZ 5.0d concept. They started with a BMW Z4 sDrive 23i and swapped the factory motor for ...