One of our Facebook friends Tai was nice enough to share two of his projects with us. Both involve installing a lot of V8 power into mid-sized SUVs. The first project involves building a pretty extre...
This pro-touring 1974 Ford Pinto is being offered for sale out of central Florida with an asking price of $5,800 OBO and trades. The engine is a completely rebuilt 2.3 L turbo and five-speed manual t...
What you are looking at is a F1 Powerboat equipped with a Hartley H1 V8. Several years ago Baba Racing’s creator Massimo Roggiero was working along side John Hartley to develop one of his engines to ...
The PGM V8 is a motorcycle being developed and built in Australia. The motorcycle is powered by a 1996 cc 90 degree V8 made from two Yamaha R1 engines. The engine features a custom aluminum crankcase...
Jay Leno invited Anand Rajani to his garage to show off his 1964 Porsche 356C. Anand fell in love with the 356 since he first saw one and after purchasing one for himself realized the power didn’t qu...
Gary Corns and his team are building a very unique 1939 Plymouth truck for Colorado Auto & Parts. What makes this truck so wild is the 757 ci (12.4 L) Jacobs R-755-A2 radial aircraft engine sitting b...
Christian Jæger is a driver for Unique Racing drift team in Denmark. In the previous season Christian drove his Nissan R33 with the factory 2.6 L RB26. However for the new season he decided to change...
The Dodge M37 was a three-quarter ton four-wheel drive truck built between 1951-1968. The only engine it came with was the 3.8 L Dodge T-245 inline-six which produced 78 bhp. This 1962 Dodge M37 has ...
This is a Mazda 787B replica built by Speedchimp Racing for the 24 Hours of LeMons. The team built the replica around a Porsche 914 which hadn’t run in 10 years. Powering the car is a carbureted Mazd...
Fred and Dave from Dirt Every Day are building a 4×4 diesel muscle car out of a 1973 Plymouth Road Runner. The engine will be a next generation Cummins ISV 5.0 L V8 turbo diesel crate engine. This is...
David Waterworth is a professional drifter competing in the British Drift Championship. In late 2014 David decided his previous race car, a Nissan S15 with a Viper V10 which he had raced with for thr...
This race car was built by Team Edlinger in Styria, Austria to compete in hill climb racing. The body is based off a BMW 320i E30 which has been customized for weights savings and aerodynamics. The e...
I came across this project over a year ago while researching for another article. I never planned on writing about it since it was completed many years ago but I saw it making the rounds again on soc...
When this 1988 Mercedes W123 rolled out of the factory it was powered by a 3.2 L M104 inline-six engine but recently this crafty owner decided to increase the size of the engine in his wagon by more ...
The race car called Rudezon is finally running. The team from Linköping, Sweden took some time out to record the two-stroke Evinrude 300XP V8 running in the Volvo Amazon. The team still needs to inst...
This BMW 130i E87 was built by KJ Performance in Geiselhöring, Germany. They installed a 5.0 L V10 from a M5 E60 that produces around 550 horsepower and 520 Nm (384 lb-ft) of torque. The car also use...
This is Steve Groenink’s amazing 1973 Toyota Celica called Zongo. He started the project in 2010 and through a lot of hard work has created a very powerful and unique classic Toyota. Power comes from...
Mighty Car Mods is back with a brand new engine swap project. The guys start by buying a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle with a factory 1.6 L H4 engine. The goal of the project is to build the Beetle with 10x...
SpeedLife has spent the past year building a very unique drift car. The foundation of the project is a Nissan S15 chassis which is powered by a 1GZ-FE V12 from a Toyota Century. The engine was instal...
Under the hood of Sandy Myers’ 2004 Infiniti G35 sits a 5.7 L HEMI V8 and a Tremec TR-6060 six-speed transmission. Both of them sourced from a 2010 Challenger. The engine was upgraded with the intake...
The guys at Turbo Dynamics are back testing their twin-engine race car at the track. They have set high-8 second passes before with the boost set at around 60-70%. In this video they set the boost to...
Dakota Customs and River Raider Off-road are each building a Jeep powered by a 707 horsepower Hellcat V8. Dakota Customs stated they have been trying to purchase a crate motor since January from Chry...
One of our favorite projects is back with a small update. In the photos you can see the builder re-working the shifter. It had to be moved more forward and the linkage increased after the seats were ...
I came across Dean Williams’ Honda N600 project while searching Youtube for engine swap projects in 2014. I always meant to follow up with the project but forgot along the way. I was very excited to ...
Steve Whitham not only designed and built this rotary powered drag motorcycle but also races it. Steve was originally going to use a natuarlly aspirated 13B rotary engine but Brent Curran from Curran...