Tony and Lucky are back and this time they get to put their hands on the hot rodding icon called Project X. It was the oldest project vehicle for Popular Hot Rodding and currently is the oldest at Ho...
Watch the guys from Pistonhead Productions and their friends build a Drift Diesel Miata live over 48 hours. If you don’t remember the guys held a crowdfunding campaign to build a Mazda Miata with a t...
The interest in a LSx V12 has increased enough for a company called V12LS to develop and eventually sell them. Currently the company is testing their prototype and fixing bugs such as water leaking, ...
This Lada 2107 (Lada Riva) was built by a creative owner in Gdańsk, Poland for autocross and drifting. He considered several different engines from Fiat to Nissan but settled on a 3.0 L M60B30 V8 fro...
Kim Garcia set out to build one of the widest Toyota AE86 in the world. Kim calls the project V86 because under the hood sits a 4.0 L 1UZ-FE that produces 290 horsepower. The engine connects to a Nis...
From the guys who brought you a 1996 Jeep Cherokee with a 1UZ-FE come this 1995 Jeep Wrangler with a 1UZ-FE. The guys at American Locomotive took a YJ Wrangler and stuffed a 4.0 L 1UZ-FE V8 from a 19...
Never doubt how much motor can be stuffed into a small car. This 2000 Lada Niva (VAZ-2121) has had the 1.6 L or 1.7 L inline-four replaced with a 3.0 L 2JZ-GTE inline-six. The rest of the drivetrain ...
This 1991 BMW 318is is up for sale in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The owner spent 2 years and around 1,000 hours swapping a complete E39 powertrain and getting everything to work properly. Powering the car...
This Volkswagen Transporter T5 was built by Andi Riley from T4 Transformations in Wakefield, England. Andi calls it the RST5 because the van is powered by a complete Audi RS4 powertrain. Under the ho...
This wild 1989 BMW 325i was built by Red Baron Racing in Santa Rosa, California for driver Donovan Brockway to compete in Formula Drift Pro 2. The team just unveiled their new livery which includes a...
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 ...