Marcus Slater, Author at LS1Tech.com - Page 30 of 38

I’m not sure what you would call something like TX2k. A festival? A car meet? I guess any place where you have a gathering of super tuned sports cars eager to race is just an event. In addition to having a solid two days of drag racing where big talkers can back up their boasts […] More »

Luxury Sedan. Sure. That might be what GM calls the CTS-V, but anyone that’s been near one knows that it’s so much more than your average luxury barge. It’s a wolf in wolfs clothing, really. There’s not much to set your average CTS off from the CTS-V model, until you realize how fast it is. […] More »

FACT: Chevy Novas are cool. This is just something that’s universally understood. Like gravity. Or stickers adding horsepower. FACT: The LS1 makes things better. However, this applies mostly to just cars. Trying to swap an LS1 into a person DOES NOT WORK. Trust me on that one. As attractive as it might sound to swap […] More »

The Chevy Monza was a weird little car. Not just in the way it looked, but because of what it was supposed to be. Would you believe that Chevrolet had initially planned to build this thing with a wankel rotary engine? It would’ve been like an all american RX-3. Those plans were eventually scuttled due […] More »

That… Is a Toyota Hiace van. From the factory, it came with an abysmal four cylinder engine and was best suited for moving a lot of people very, very slowly. Despite such humble beginnings, the Hiace has found its way into the heart of (a few) auto enthusiasts everywhere. Mainly in Japan. But this one […] More »

This is far and away the most bad-ass grandma’s car I’ve ever seen. I mean seriously. Who would expect a Ford Fairmont to do anything besides drive slowly in the left lane and absent-mindedly leave it’s blinker on? This guy’s car though… It’s awesome. He’s stuck a turbocharged LSX under the hood, which is pretty […] More »

I gotta confess, the E36 M3 is probably my favorite M car of all time. It’s not as rare and unreasonably expensive as the first one, or as complicated and unreasonably expensive as every M3 after it. That said… It would be better an LS. Like this one. All the style and handling of an […] More »