How to Celebrate Halloween Properly with Your LS1 Engine

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Highly-informative Halloween celebration guide will make you the life of the party, or, more likely, a neighborhood menace.

Halloween is always so complicated. Should you go to party, stay home and hand out candy, or shoudl you roam around in a terrifying costume and haunt your neighbors? It’s a tricky decision, but, fortunately, Curtis Media has a solution that never goes out of style, at least for the LS1tech crowd. Even better, it couldn’t be more simple to execute. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown:

  1. Buy a pumpkin, or ten
  2. Gut and decorate your pumpkin(s)
  3. Place your pumpkin(s) outside on the ground
  4. Fire up your race car
  5. Do burnouts and donuts, smashing those pumpkins into oblivion
  6. Repeat as necessary

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In fact, that’s exactly what Rob “Chairslayer” Parsons, does. His LS1-powered S13 240sx drift car is the perfect pumpkin-carving instrument. Which is handy considering Parsons himself makes a mess of his first pumpkin. After resorting to an electric handsaw, Parsons finally carves out his pumpkin, only to realize he cut a bit too deep. Oh well, it also doubles as a rather handy bright orange helmet.

From there, it’s pretty simple, as Parsons tears up the concrete, his rear tires and those pumpkins in this fun Halloween bash. However, we are curious he was listening to the Smashing Pumpkins while doing this. We certainly would be.

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Enjoy the carnage. We here at LS1tech wish everyone a happy Halloween! May the cold starts of your race cars make for the spookiest of scares for the neighborhood children who are out hunting for candy.

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Jake Stumph is a lifelong car enthusiast and racer, and former content editor for Internet Brands Automotive which he joined in 2015. His work has been featured by several other prominent automotive outlets, including Jalopnik and Autobytel.

He obtained a bachelor's degree in Political Science at the Ohio State University in 2013, then pivoted from covering politics and policy to writing about his automotive adventures, something that, he says, is a lot more fun. Since that time, he has established connections with most of the world's major automakers, as well as other key brands in the automotive industry.

He enjoys track days, drifting, and autocross, at least, when his cars are running right, which is uncommon.


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