Mazda Miata with a Cummins 4BT
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...
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 The original engine has been replaced by a 5.5 L S70B56 V12 from a BMW 850CSi.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...
When we last wrote about LoveFab’s Enviate v2.0 project it was going through shakedown testing at the track. Since then testing has completed and the full carbon fiber body has been installed. The to...
This is Roger Tippett’s very low Chevy C30 one-ton truck. The truck is able to ride so low thanks to a stepped-notched chassis, custom bed, air bag suspension with custom built tubular control arms a...
The Roadster Shop took the wraps off one of their newest completed projects, a 1955 Chrysler 300. The car sits on a modified FAST TRACK chassis which includes an IFS and four-link rear suspension wit...
When we last wrote about Christian Jæger’s Nissan R33 drift car it still needed some work and final testing before it could see the track. Since then they corrected all the bugs in their twin-turbo M...
This is Gary Stone’s wild twin-engine 2005 Citroën C2. It started when his previous C2 project was totaled in a garage fire. Instead of giving up he replaced the destroyed C2 with another one that he...
When this 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible was first being worked on it needed a lot of work. In the metal department it required a new floor pan, rear quarters, trunk pan, and many patches. Once ...
This Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII is being built by VTG in Warszawa, Poland who specialize in building AWD vehicles for drag racing. A lot of the drag racing in Europe takes place on unprepped surfaces...
V12LS has been developing a 8.5 L V12 using two LS1 V8 engines and now they released a video of it being dyno testing. On a conservative tune and using their stage 2 cam, the engine produced 717 hp a...
Powerful SUVs are back for more uphill sand racing at Moreeb Dune Liwa UAE. As always these heavily modified SUVs are exciting to watch and are pushed to their breaking points. One big-block powered ...
This is the Mercedes-Judd SLK340 that was built for international hill climbing in FIA E1 category. Mercedes tuning house Carlsson Germany together with Team Meisel Motorsport took a Mercedes SLK R17...
This is Tony Quinn’s bespoke 4WD Ford Focus built to race in hill climb competitions. It was built by Paul Ceprnich at his company PACE Innovations in Yatala QLD, Australia. Paul co-funded the projec...
Two companies are currently competing to build the military’s next super quiet motorcycle. Logo Technologies’ SilentHawk and LSA Autonomy’s Nightmare prototypes both hope their multifuel-electric hyb...
Car stereo company Clarion started a new division several years ago with the goal of restoring cars. Their first project was restoring a beautiful 1974 BMW 2002 to a very high level. For their second...
This custom 1949 Ford F1 is called Old Smokey and was built by Chuckles Garage in Santa Rosa, California. Old Smokey was built to be a shop truck and show off their fabrication skills. Powering the t...