1971 Corvette With A BMW V12
Some people enjoy going with a popular engine choice while others enjoy something different. This 1971 Corvette falls under the latter. The Corvette originally came with a LS5 and four-speed but when...
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Some people enjoy going with a popular engine choice while others enjoy something different. This 1971 Corvette falls under the latter. The Corvette originally came with a LS5 and four-speed but when...
Watch as Bisimoto’s first generation Honda Insight with a 1991 F22A NA engine puts down 430 horsepower to the wheels at the track. The car is capable of low 9 second passes and in this video you see ...
If you live in an area where snow is an issue and would like a winter project to break up the boredom maybe you should do like these fine gentleman from Sweden and stick a 900cc Kawasaki Ninja motorc...
Tom’s Turbo Garage is starting a new project building a LS3 powered Mazda Miata. Every step to this build will be recorded and new episodes will be released every two weeks. The basics of the project
A friend pointed me to this incredible 1967 GAZ-21 Volga project from Russia. The drivetrain consists of a 2JZ-GTE and A340 automatic transmission from an Toyota Aristo. The rear suspension and LSD i...
Studebakers are usually not the first choice for a restomod/pro-touring project but that’s what makes this build so great. A builder has taken a 1981 Avanti II, which is based off a Studebaker Avanti...
This beast is made from a 1948 Ford F-5 body sitting on a 1992 F800 chassis. The engine is a Ford diesel six-cylinder connected to a Eaton five-speed transmission and a Marmon-Herrington transfer cas...
Wreck Racing is a student run automotive club at Georgia Tech that enters the Grassroots Motorsports Challenge every year. Each year since 2012 they have entered a 1969 MG Midget powered by a 2JZ. Th...
If a “regular” motorcycle just doesn’t do it for you anymore, might I suggest a V8 powered one by Tom Novak. He calls these the hot rods of the motorcycle world because they are uncomfortable and rid...
Nulon and Impossible Fabrication recently finished their Civic project car. They started with a 1992 Honda Civic and replaced the factory engine with a 2.0 L SR20DET from a Nissan S15 and converted i...
Someone in South Africa is building one of the most unique 2007 Lexus IS250s in the world. The project is not finished but so far the builder has installed the 1GZ-FE V12 engine and a Harrop/Eaton HT...
We came across this nice Suzuki Samurai with a turbocharged Volkswagen diesel getting some turbo/exhaust work. I tried to find a build thread and what model VW engine this was but couldn’t find much....
Sparrow Automotive produces a kit which allows the Citroen 2CV to run a modern oil cooled BMW R series flat twin engines. You can use either the single or twin spark versions ranging from 850cc to 12...
This is ZCars’ Lotus Elise development car. It was used to design a kit to run a Hayabusa engine in the Elise. The engine has been upgraded to handle 250 horsepower and is controlled by a DTA S60 ECU...
If you like classic big truck looks and diesel torque you might be interested in this 1949 Dodge 4×4 truck. The engine has been upgraded to a 12v Cummins diesel from a 1990 Dodge D250 truck. The truc...
Anytime a project mixes manufacturers it runs the risk of upsetting some. Tommy Pike of Tommy Pike Customs doesn’t seem concerned with any of that. His Quaker State sponsored 1969 Ford F-100 runs a s...
This is Renovo’s all electric Shelby Daytona. It runs on a genuine Shelby American CSX9000 chassis with twin sequential axial flux electrical motors. The motors combine to produce 500 horsepower and ...
This 1981 Toyota Corolla (E70) is listed weighing 1,885 lbs (855 kgs) but I am guessing this one weighs a little less. Add that with the bottom-end torque of a LS1 and this car must be a blast to dri...
Patrick Motorsports took a 1978 Porsche 911 Turbo (930) and converted it to a 1973 911 RSR model. The drivetrain consists of a 993 twin-turbo 3.8 L and six-speed transaxle. The engine features Mahle ...
If Chevrolet was ever going to make a Chevy Colorado ZR1 Edition this would be it. Under the hood sits a supercharged LS9 outputting 612 horsepower and 547 lb-ft of torque to the 12″ ZR1 tires. The o...
This video documents Jeff Lutz and his son’s two twin-turbo 1957 Chevys and Jeff winning of Drag Week 2014. Each car runs approximatly the same 3,000 horsepower twin-turbo 692 ci V8s. The biggest dif...
Ken Prather had a strong desire to build a mid-engine hot rod. He found the basis for his project in a 1962 Volkswagen Type-2 Microbus in decent shape for sale. The first thing he did after buying th...
This amazing engine builder is back with more progress on his V12 being made from combining two Toyota Supra inline-six engines. Since our last update the builder has mated the engine to the transaxl...
A D1GP drift exhibition was held at Tokyo Auto Salon 2015 to kick off the new season. One special car there was OZ Motors Vertex Prius. This is a ZVW30 Prius model that has been converted to all elec...
In 1967 Andy Granatelli had a novel idea to install a turboshaft in his Indy 500 race car. He was only able to run turbine-powered cars in 1967 and 1968 and both years the car broke down leading the ...