V12LS’ LSx V12 on the Dyno
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...
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...
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...