Smart Fortwo with a Turbo Hayabusa Motor
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...
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...
Mario Kleff enjoys building custom motorcycles with large engines. One of his previous creations was a Honda Grom with a Ducati 1199 Panigale R engine. Unfortunately a fuel leak caused a fire and des...
Nathan Mueller enjoys diesel engines and really enjoys putting them into vehicles no one would suspect. His previous wild creations included a 1960 Cadillac de Ville and a 2006 Dodge Charger both pow...
SuperChevy posted an article showing a budget build 6.0 L LQ9. These iron-block truck motors produce 345 horsepower at 5,200 rpm and 380 lb-ft of torque at 4,000 rpm from the factory. The SuperChevy ...
I recently had a chance to talk to professional Norwegian drifter Stian Jacobsen about his newest project. Stian is currently building a rear-wheel drive 2016 Honda Civic hatchback. He says it is the...
This 1975 Toyota Celica was built by Speed Warhouse in Leesport, Pennsylvania. For TX2X16 they stuffed a 3.0 L 2JZ under the hood that produces 1,049 horsepower to the rear wheels on 38 psi of boost ...
This is Chuck Beck’s custom motorcycle powered by a Lamborghini V12. When we last wrote about it at a Caffeine and Octane meet in Alpharetta, Georgia it was bare and didn’t have the nicely painted bo...
Boba Motoring is back with their wild BMW E30 extracting even more power. The last time we wrote about the car it was “only” producing 1,050 horsepower. Now the 3.6 L S38 inline-six from a BMW M5 is ...
Charlie’s Classic & Custom Body & Paint Shop in Somerset, UK has spent the past 18 months in the evenings and on weekends turning a Jaguar E-Type Series 1 into an amazing drift car. Purists can take ...
The last time we wrote about Andre Olsen’s Hyundai Veloster it still needed a lot of work before it would see the track. Since then Andre and his father Kim have come a long way. If you remember the ...