Custom 1939 Cadillac with a LT1
Chip Foose Design is finishing their “Madam X” project for owners Wes and Vivian Rydell. The projects is based on a 1935 concept drawing for a 1937 Cadillac Sixty Special by Art Ross. Chip and compan...
Chip Foose Design is finishing their “Madam X” project for owners Wes and Vivian Rydell. The projects is based on a 1935 concept drawing for a 1937 Cadillac Sixty Special by Art Ross. Chip and compan...
This 1974 Mercedes-Benz W114 was built by Un Limited Kustom in Kasugai, Japan. The factory 2.3 L or 2.8 L inline-six was replaced with a Toyota 2.5 L 2JZ-GE inline-six. It appears a Toyota automatic ...
A couple of gentlemen from Italy have taken a first generation Smart Fortwo and installed a 1.9 L TDI inline-four and transmission from a Volkswagen Golf. The engine produces 150 horsepower which get...
Last week Ken Block unveiled his Hoonicorn V2 with its new 1,400 horsepower twin-turbo V8. The reason the Hoonicorn needed to be upgraded with two turbos and methanol was for a new video that dealt w...
Craig Gibson shared with us a recent video of his LSxSorento smoking the tires at Fatman’s Invasion burnout competition. The mid-sized SUV really impressed everyone there until a bearing cap went and...
This 1960 Austin-Healey “Bugeye” Sprite has had several upgrades and many different engines since it rolled out of the factory. The original 948 cc inline-four was replaced with a 1275 cc inline-four...
Paul Anagnos’ Fox Body Mustang was built to drag race. Inside the cabin is a 10-point roll cage and it rides on a complete drag racing suspension. But the most interesting part (to us) is what’s powe...
Several months ago we shared Steve Morris’ wild quad-turbo V16 engine he was building for the Devel Sixteen supercar. Steve recently revealed he was working on the next stage of upgrades for the ridi...
This 1979 Honda Civic is owned by Top Class Tyres and was built by by Motor Sports Mechanical in New South Wales, Australia. Powering the little car is a 1.8 L B18C7 inline-four from a Honda Integra....
V8 Speed & Resto Shop in Red Bud, Illinois started a new project called “Thunder’s Truck.” A customer approached the team to take a 1969 Ford F-100 truck and do a complete chassis and powertrain swap...
When Don Montgomery wanted his sun soaked 1969 Plymouth Valiant to gain a new life he sent it to Greening Auto Company in Cullman, Alabama. There the car received the name “Pissed Off” and became one...
This 1981 AMC Eagle was built on the TV show Lost in Transmission S1:E5 that aired on Jun 04, 2015. The goal was to take a 4WD Eagle wagon and stuff a complete Mustang powertrain in it while converti...
The story goes a Nissan dealership owner built this 1923 Dodge Pickup hot rod in 1974 to promote their business and was shown for 15 years. The listing says the hot rod runs a 1974 Datsun 240Z powert...
When we last wrote about this 1979 Toyota Corona the 5.0 L 1GZ-FE V12 was installed in the bay and the individual throttle bodies taken from 4A-GE 20v were being built. Since then the owner has finis...
Chateau Stillwater Garage built a gorgeous 1948 Studebaker with a RB20DET engine but the inspiration to use a Skyline powertrain was first thought of while working on this 1984 Mazda RX-7 GSL. The RX...
This 1971 MGB is currently for sale in Stockton, California with an asking price of $17,750. The little roadster is powered by a Ford 5.0 L V8 from a 1992 Mustang. The engine might only produce 225 h...
We have been following Chris Boyette’s progress since our article on his S2000. Chris recently set a personal best of 8.662 sec at 154.64 mph making it one of the fastest J-series powered street cars...
This Nissan Skyline R32 is being built to compete in World Time Attack. Under the hood sits a 4.0 L Ford Barra inline-six built by Micks Motorsport in Sydney, Australia. The engine runs off a Haltech...
Ken Block presented Toyo Tires with a new project he wanted to do that involved altitude. After Toyo approved the project he needed something with a lot of power, more than any of his projects produc...
Deboss Garage started a new series on a 1994 Mercedes W124 E320 wagon for a customer. The customer wants the 3.2 L M104.99x inline-six and transmission replaced with a turbo LSx V8 with a goal of mak...
The owner of this 1968 Camaro has been working on it over the past four years. As the title already indicates this project is sure to illicit strong opinions. Under the hood sits a Dodge V10 from a V...
Steve Bortolotti is building a Mazda RX-8 for time attack racing. Part of the build was switching from a Mazda rotary to a 2.0 L Honda F20C inline-four. So Steve sent the car to Cyrious Garageworks i...
Australian Scott Hoffman has seriously upgraded his Mazda E2200 flatbed truck. Out went the factory motor and in went a 4.0 L Toyota 1UZ-FE V8 and a Garrett GT3540 turbocharger. Running on E85 fuel t...
This 1982 Toyota Starlet (60 Series) is currently for sale in Torrance, California with an asking price of $5,750. The little unique Toyota features a TRD wide body kit and is powered by a supercharg...
The Roadkill boys find themselves in episode 55 fulfilling one of the most frequent requests from fans, swapping a Cummins. They also brought in Tony and Lucky from Hot Rod Garage to help with the pr...