Eric Rood, Author at LS1Tech.com - Page 11 of 14

Twin-Turbo LSX RX-7 magnificently walks the line between drift and drag car. HOONIGAN’s Daily Transmission includes some highly entertaining videos that catalog builds, people, and hooning. Lots of hooning. On this episode, the Daily Transmission host meets up with Will Tetro’s beastly 1,100-horsepower 1988 Mazda RX-7. Like so many RX-7 fans, Will dispatched with the […] More »

Stevenson Motorsports takes the race-bred Camaro GT4.R to COTA. After a year’s absence, Stevenson Racing has returned to IMSA’s Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge with a new Chevrolet Camaro. Unlike the previous-generation Z28, Chevy has built this car, the Camaro GT4.R, to international GT4 specifications. That will make it eligible to race internationally, but Stevenson gave […] More »

Touring Car Masters crash crumples a dozen vintage race cars. Like their American counterparts, Australians love muscle cars. Starting in the 1960s, the Land Down Under imported in enough and also built enough of their own to have a proper V8-based car culture. And like muscle car fans stateside with vintage Trans-Am racing, the Aussies love […] More »

Z06 dumps oil, things go haywire, everything is…fine? Things can go really wrong anywhere you race, but a big slide during a street race tends to produce a big crash. Somehow, this street-racing incident in Texas ends with neither a crumpled Corvette Z06 nor Shelby GT500. Given the level of devastation apparent in the nitrous-fed […] More »

The Sith Lord’s LS1-powered work truck awaits. How good does this look? We’re not always nuts about pickup trucks. And we know tastes are subjective, but this 1991 Chevy C1500 on CraigsList in Los Angeles looks just…right. With the front faschia extended below the bumper, it resembles the 454SS. Except there’s no 454. Instead, under […] More »

We concours-judge this classic Camaro classifieds ad. This one sure reads like a joke, but Poe’s Law instances seems so abundant these days it’s hard to know for sure. The car ostensibly resembles a late second-generation Chevy Camaro, although it’s wedged in between some trees and looks like a grenade has gone off in the […] More »

Drifter Caleb Quanback takes you into the company’s Kentucky facility. If you’ve ever bought anything from Holley, you should watch this video from drifter and BMX rider Caleb Quanback. In it, he visits Bowling Green, Kentucky, touring their production facility to see the people and processes behind Holley Performance Products. We don’t often see how performance […] More »