It’s always nice to see how our modded cars stack up against exotics. Here’s proof you need to bring a big weapon to the party if you plan on roll racing with a McLaren MP4-12C. Its coefficient of drag is as slippery as a tear drop, and it makes 616 hp and 443 lb-ft at […] More »
Lingenfelter Performance Engineering returns as the Design & Engineering Challenge Sponsor of the 2014 OPTIMA Batteries Ultimate Street Car Series. For those unaware of the Ultimate Street Car Series, it’s a grueling five-event challenge to see which car reigns supreme with the most form and function. The five events consist of: -Street Driving/Open Road/Rally Competition […] More »
A big-power 4th Gen. F-Body still brings a smile to my face, especially if the car in question is a 1700hp Firebird Formula that’s pulling the wheels through half track and running 7.60s @ 186 mph when it keeps the front-end down. Despite a hefty race weight of 3650 pounds with the driver, the 425 […] More »
This 1968 Camaro from JCG Restorations and Customs in Oxnard, California is about the cleanest ’68 I’ve ever seen. Seriously, it nails the “Pro Touring,” style to the T, but it also has enough performance to back up its looks. Propulsion comes courtesy of an LS7 that’s making 540 hp and 520 lb-ft at the […] More »
Step-what? Step on this! All 1300 horsepower of it! The regular cab step-side (RCSS) Sierra in question has a large housing 94MM Batmowheel turbo huffing plenty of boost into a stock-block 418 cubic inch stroker. The black beast is built and tuned by Oddball Racing and would have surely popped an 8-second pass on the […] More »
Eight Corvettes were swallowed by a sinkhole beneath the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky on Wednesday. The massive sinkhole was nearly 50 feet wide and 30 feet deep, swallowing eight cars, some of which were a 1962 Black Corvette, a 1984 PPG Pace Car, a 2009 ZR1 Blue Devil, a 1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette, […] More »
Ah, the marvels of technology; it’s a wondrous thing and great for gearheads that just wanna go fast. In this case, JE Pistons hopes to revolutionize the LS industry with what they claim are the first off-the-shelf asymmetrical pistons. What’s an asymmetrical piston? Without expanding into an engineering dictation, asymmetrical pistons have different sized skirts, […] More »