Lingenfelter may have been one of the first to take a crack at making crazy power out of the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, but they won’t be the last. Example? The Fiends at Artisan have worked up a twin-turbo kit for the beast of a V8 under the new muscle car’s hood. Power gets a serious [...]
You’ve gotta love the LS1. Besides making silly push-rod power, the Bow Tie block can find its way behind the headlights of almost any rig with a little cutting. It’s the hot rodders’ bread and butter, and it takes boost like a champ. The video after the jump is a true gem of do-it-yourself ingenuity. [...]
Say it ain’t so! Sadly, looks like it’s so. Shite. Tougher emissions standards, global financial collapse and general malaise are all conspiring against big, multi-cylindered engines. Like Mercedes’ torque-monster M275 V12s. You know, the engines that power Zondas and can spin-out close to 1,000 lb-ft of torque, even though no AMG tranny can handle the [...]
We’re sorta gobsmacked as to if this is wonderful or terrible news. Wonderfully terrible? Let’s dissect. As everyone knows, the greatest M car of all time is the E39 M5. Say any different and people will think you’re weird. And what made the E39 M5 so good besides the stealth, 6-speed manual and handling? Right, it’s hand [...]
Some things on this planet successfully display their potential with a simple stance. A cobra, for example, need do nothing more than spread its hooded head and hiss. Without anything further you know its time to either run or kiss your ass goodbye. Mercedes has achieved a similarly menacing posture with the AMG SL 65 [...]
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“Say what? That’s just a dirty old F-body Z28. My cousin Julian in Sea Bright’s got one, and his is an IROC! So yeah, I see the shiny wheels, the big wing (which has to be good for at least 30 hp, right?) and the orange skunk stripes — but so what? I’m telling you, Julian’s [...]
Remember the long n’ loverly CS Concept BMW cranked out last year? Turns out the company plans on bringing that car to production as the new 8-Series. Set to compete with all the “4-door coupes” being bandied about these days (Porsche Panamera, Aston Martin Rapide), the car should be the epitome of BMW engineering. The [...]
Ah SEMA. For genuine Fiends, the show is like Christmas, your birthday and a bachelor party all wrapped up in one horsepower-dripping good time. Case in point: Fox Marketing and Artisan’s 600 pony Lexus IS-F. The car rocks a completely built bottom end with JE pistons and Crower rods to help deal with the uber [...]
Before we can even say, “Where to even start?” let’s start with the suspension. It’s all wood! In front it has unequal length wooden control arms and wooden transverse leaf springs — just like a Corvette. That rear features wooden trailing arms and another set of tree-derived transverse leaf springs. Now, you might be thinking [...]
Toyota has veered so far into boring car territory (FJ Cruiser excepted) that even Toyota has realized it. That’s why we were all so amped about the upcoming mid-engined collaboration with Subaru and of course, development of the next Supra - not to mention the many folks who were just elated about the notion of [...]
