LeMons Mazda 787B Replica with a 12A Rotary
This is a Mazda 787B replica built by Speedchimp Racing for the 24 Hours of LeMons. The team built the replica around a Porsche 914 which hadn’t run in 10 years. Powering the car is a carbureted Mazd...
This is a Mazda 787B replica built by Speedchimp Racing for the 24 Hours of LeMons. The team built the replica around a Porsche 914 which hadn’t run in 10 years. Powering the car is a carbureted Mazd...
Fred and Dave from Dirt Every Day are building a 4×4 diesel muscle car out of a 1973 Plymouth Road Runner. The engine will be a next generation Cummins ISV 5.0 L V8 turbo diesel crate engine. This is...
David Waterworth is a professional drifter competing in the British Drift Championship. In late 2014 David decided his previous race car, a Nissan S15 with a Viper V10 which he had raced with for thr...
This race car was built by Team Edlinger in Styria, Austria to compete in hill climb racing. The body is based off a BMW 320i E30 which has been customized for weights savings and aerodynamics. The e...
I came across this project over a year ago while researching for another article. I never planned on writing about it since it was completed many years ago but I saw it making the rounds again on soc...
When this 1988 Mercedes W123 rolled out of the factory it was powered by a 3.2 L M104 inline-six engine but recently this crafty owner decided to increase the size of the engine in his wagon by more ...
The race car called Rudezon is finally running. The team from Linköping, Sweden took some time out to record the two-stroke Evinrude 300XP V8 running in the Volvo Amazon. The team still needs to inst...
This BMW 130i E87 was built by KJ Performance in Geiselhöring, Germany. They installed a 5.0 L V10 from a M5 E60 that produces around 550 horsepower and 520 Nm (384 lb-ft) of torque. The car also use...
This is Steve Groenink’s amazing 1973 Toyota Celica called Zongo. He started the project in 2010 and through a lot of hard work has created a very powerful and unique classic Toyota. Power comes from...
Mighty Car Mods is back with a brand new engine swap project. The guys start by buying a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle with a factory 1.6 L H4 engine. The goal of the project is to build the Beetle with 10x...
SpeedLife has spent the past year building a very unique drift car. The foundation of the project is a Nissan S15 chassis which is powered by a 1GZ-FE V12 from a Toyota Century. The engine was instal...
Under the hood of Sandy Myers’ 2004 Infiniti G35 sits a 5.7 L HEMI V8 and a Tremec TR-6060 six-speed transmission. Both of them sourced from a 2010 Challenger. The engine was upgraded with the intake...
The guys at Turbo Dynamics are back testing their twin-engine race car at the track. They have set high-8 second passes before with the boost set at around 60-70%. In this video they set the boost to...
Dakota Customs and River Raider Off-road are each building a Jeep powered by a 707 horsepower Hellcat V8. Dakota Customs stated they have been trying to purchase a crate motor since January from Chry...
One of our favorite projects is back with a small update. In the photos you can see the builder re-working the shifter. It had to be moved more forward and the linkage increased after the seats were ...
I came across Dean Williams’ Honda N600 project while searching Youtube for engine swap projects in 2014. I always meant to follow up with the project but forgot along the way. I was very excited to ...
Steve Whitham not only designed and built this rotary powered drag motorcycle but also races it. Steve was originally going to use a natuarlly aspirated 13B rotary engine but Brent Curran from Curran...
Joe Allesandrino purchased a 1963 Ferrari 250 GT/E body after all the other parts were stripped and sent to Italy to make a GTO clone. He then installed a Chevy DZ 302 ci V8 from a 1969 Camaro Z/28 c...
This 1998 VW Beetle started life as a daily driver with a 2.0 L inline-four. Unfortunately it broke down in a snow storm and left the owner stranded. The car sat for five months until the owner decid...
The Roadster Shop just unveiled their newest project involving a 1970 Chevy P10 Step Van. As you can expect everything on the “Windy City Tower” van has been upgraded. The engine is a LSx V8 on top o...
When we last wrote about this 2JZ powered Mercedes 500SL the sellers had only a few images and basic details. Since then Power Vehicles have uploaded a huge photo album (153 photos) and more stats of...
This is Larry Strawn’s 1931 Ford Model A with a 12v Cummins turbo diesel built by Jefferson State Diesel. The engine produces 697 horsepower to the rear wheels which was good for a quarter-mile in 11...
I was excited to see new photos posted to Holley’s Facebook album of Gary Kollofski’s 1957 Chevy. As we stated in our original article it is tough to build a custom Tri-Five Chevy and make it stand o...
The owner of this fifth generation Cadillac DeVille coupe originally had a built Cadillac motor power it but after a wanted to go faster so he turned to the LSx. Under the hood now sits a 6.0 L LSx t...
This custom Fiat Abarth was built by Racer Edges in Zagreb, Croatia. It is powered by two 200 horsepower 1300 cc Hayabusa motorcycle engines for a total of 400 horsepower. That level of power to all ...