Tag: Swaps

This week’s Dyno Blast video features an SN95 generation Ford Mustang, which originally came with a sickly 4.6L modular motor with just 215-225 horsepower.

The latest, greatest engine from General Motors is the supercharged LT4 in the 2015 Corvette Z06, but this week’s Dyno Blast video features a 1986 Porsche 944 packing the LT4 engine that came in the C4 Corvette.

This week’s Drag Racing video features a Nissan 240SX powered by a built LS1 V8 racing at an import event against a very, very slow Honda Civic.

The Corvette is an automotive institution. Within that institution, the practice of engine swapping has long been practiced.

This week’s Drag Race video is a battle of impressive sleepers, with a mid 1980s Chevrolet Caprice 2-door racing down the quarter mile against a twin turbocharged Lincoln Mark VII.

This week’s Dyno Blast video is a C3 Corvette which has been upfitted with a LS1 V8 from a 1998 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. The description says that it is stock, but it also says that it is equipped with a 228 cam, so while it has stock heads and a stock intake, it sounds like there were some modifications made to the engine prior to swapping it into the 1982 Corvette.

I’ve always found the original BMW M Coupe to be an oddly attractive car. Shooting brake designs are nothing new, but I’ll be damned if BMW’s doesn’t look completely unique. The only way to make what many deem the automotive equivalent of a clown shoe stand out even more is to add a big-ass wing […] More »