Reasons why this is awesome: 1. It’s a Lexus with an LS behaving badly. 2. It does a damn good burnout. 3. This video has the best FWD burnout I’ve seen yet. Really, this is just four minutes of solid hooning. The cavalier burnout at the end is just icing on the cake.

Take one rust-free West Coast ’68 Nova with cloth seats, poverty caps and whitewalls, drop in a Corvette LS1 and what do you get? The ultimate sleeper? Motor is a ’03 5.3 LS with 75k miles mated to a ’04 4L60e tranny with 69k miles. Comes with new engine management harness, o2 sensors, MAF sensors […] More »

Boost and nitrous are cool, but there’s something to be said for a powerful naturally aspirated setup, they’re just raw and wicked! This 493 cubic inch bad-dog comes curtsey of KPE Racing and is said to have made 798 hp and 756 lb-ft on this dyno run. While the motor is mean, checkout the link […] More »

Girl’s cars can be fast too. Don’t be mislead by the pink wheels; this isn’t a rice rocket. It’s just a rocket. And a clean one at that. Most of the time 240’s end up being trashed beyond belief by drifting. I guess you don’t have to worry about walls quite as much at a dragstrip. […] More »

Oh, little 280Z, what happened to you? You started off as such cozy little sports car. I know you’ve always wanted a more power, but ever since you’ve gotten that LS1 swap… You’ve changed. You’re so much more aggressive. Suddenly you started wearing black and you’ve even started smoking! Those poor little Kumho’s are mincemeat […] 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 »

Hugger Orange is simply one of those GM colors you either love or hate. I happen to love it and really wish GM offered the bold color beyond the 1999 model year. Alas, maybe its exclusivity adds to its allure, as according to different sites only 1402 Hugger Orange Camaros were produced in ’99. Those […] More »