Top Ten Articles of 2014
We had another great year of engine swap projects. Below are the most popular articles from 2014. 10. Volkswagen Truck With a Ford V8 9. Aston Martin DB7 With a 2JZ-GTE 8. Mazda RX-8 Powered by a Hon...
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We had another great year of engine swap projects. Below are the most popular articles from 2014. 10. Volkswagen Truck With a Ford V8 9. Aston Martin DB7 With a 2JZ-GTE 8. Mazda RX-8 Powered by a Hon...
Mike Whiddett took the veil off “HUMBUL”, a twin-turbo 26B powered RX-7 built by Total Car Produce Magic at TAS 2015. The engine combo is estimated to make over 1,000 horsepower. I am sure we will he...
Ever since High School Rick O’Donnell has loved Datsun vehicles. Rick found a rusted Datsun 510 shell without a drivetrain and wanted to turn it into a track car. Rick worked on the body and McKinney...
It took Hot Rod’s Restos only 45 days to complete this 1964 International Loadstar CO-1700 project. This truck started life as a COE (cab over engine) layout but now is a
In 1967 George Hurst and Hurst Performance Research took an entire Toronado’s W34 drivetrain including half of the frame and swapped it into a 1968 Oldsmobile 442. The W34 option came with a
After the Cleveland V8 powering this Pantera blew in 2009, the change was made from Ford to GM power. They choose a LS376/480 crate motor and it worked nicely until the desire for more power crept in...
Listen to Formula Drift driver Chris Jeanneret share his ups and downs driving his turbo K24 powered Honda S2000 in the 2014 season. It’s fun to watch such a wild build like
Someone is selling their 1987 Aston Martin Vantage Volante convertible for $150,000. The factory V8 has been replaced with a supercharged LS3 producing 680 horsepower. The seller claims there is over...
The Dupont Registry has written an amazing multi-part series about the Ferrari 330 P4 replica built by P4 by Norwood. Each car takes a full year to complete and looking through the build process it i...
If you enjoyed ICON’s 1948 Buick Super Convertible powered by a LS9, then you will be very excited about the projects currently in work. Jonathan Ward published a shop tour video showing all the proj...
Father and son projects are a fun way of bonding while also passing on the automotive bug. This project was a calibration between Ben Verduin and his son Mika from British Columbia, Canada. The proje...
Father and son projects are a fun way of bonding while also passing on the automotive bug. This project was a calibration between Ben Verduin and his son Mika from British Columbia, Canada. The proje...
ICON just finished another amazing 1972 Ford Bronco. Everything on the Bronco has been upgraded to modern tech. The engine is a 5.0 L Coyote V8 from a 2014 Mustang GT. The transmission is a Aisin-War...
Between 1975–1976, GM took 3,508 Vegas and upgraded their 2.0 L inline-four engines with Cosworth developed heads to increase performance. Although it was an improvement it only produced 110 horsepow...
This Rolls Royce was built by Dan Fink Metalworks several years ago. They modified the chassis to run a 7.0 L LS7 and Corvette C4 suspension. The car was converted to right-hand drive for a customer ...
Force-fed Performance from Abbotsford, British Columbia took an Aston Martin DB7 and replaced either the factory I6 or V12 for a 2JZ-GTE. The engine runs a Microtech EFI and Borg Warner 72mm turbo wh...
The project involving a Mini being powered by a Toyota Celica GT-Four drivetrain continues with episode eight. In this episode they work on improving the doors. This involves adding new skins, repair...
The Bavarian Motor Works company would be proud of this build. Although I am sure there have been E30 projects as detailed as this one, I have never come across one. A gentleman from Finland took a 1...
If anyone is looking for a last minute Christmas gift, might I suggest Smokehunters’ 2JZ-GTE powered BMW 2002 drift car. Sure it has some damage to the driver’s side rear bumper but where are you goi...
Although Nissan has been making the R35 since 2008, it’s still rare to see swaps using its amazing VR38DETT engine. So far I have only seen a few other projects using it. MB Automotive and Drift Stre...
Steve Griffiths of Razorback Racing built this MGB for $1,890 to compete in the Grassroots Motorsports $2014 challenge. The engine is a 408 ci Chevy V8 and helped the car set a quarter-mile in 11.2 s...
Goodwin Competition brought one of their wildest engines to PRI 2014. This is their 650 ci V8 with two 4.0 L Whipple supercharger which makes 2,000 horsepower on 93 octane. The engine debuted in 2013...
At a recent Caffeine and Octane meet in Alpharetta, Georgia someone showed up with a Lamborghini V12 motorcycle. I love how the camera turns around to see where the engine noise was coming from. I am...
Someone in Sweden is building a Volvo Amazon on a full tube frame and powering it with a two-stroke Evinrude 300XP V8. The exhaust wasn’t built that way just to look wild (which it does).
A lot of Mark IV Supra owners either have a turbocharged 2JZ or want one. For example this 1996 Supra came from Toyota with a naturally aspirated 2JZ-GE but the new owner never intended on keeping it...