Tag: twin turbo

The quest for 800 plus horsepower in Formula Drift is making guys look into engines that can do it reliably and many are choosing GM pushrod power plants to do it. Wrecked Magazine’s Joey Redmond and Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center takes a look into the V8s of Formula Drift. A few of these guys we’ve introduced […] More »

  It’s one thing to modify your car’s engine to make more horsepower. It’s another to do it all over again after that motor floats a valve and craps out. “LS1Tech member cadivette is a patient man” is an understatement. The first power plant he twin-turboed in his 2005 Cadillac CTS-V went the way of […] More »

At my house, Christmas comes once a week. I receive media test vehicle presents on Wednesdays and discover what they contain over the course of a week. Recently, Cadillac delivered a gift wrapped in Red Obsession Tintcoat: the 2014 CTS Vsport Premium. I found myself saying many of the things we’ve all said when opening […] More »

The Z/28 might be the most track-focused Camaro available, but the ZL1 makes bigger under-hood numbers. Its blown 6.2-liter V8 develops 580 horsepower versus its more athletic – and naturally aspirated – sibling’s 505. Hennessey Performance, in their never-ending quest for more performance, have decided to take an unusual approach to bumping up the ZL1’s […] More »

There are three types of people in this world. Those who do too little. Those who do just enough. And those who do more than they have to. John Hennessey is that third kind of person. He took a look at the 556-horsepower Cadillac CTS-V Wagon and decided to take it further. A LOT further.

When a human being gets a heart transplant, they get the life-saving organ from another human being.  Before you watch the video below, picture someone receiving a heart from a T. rex (just go with it, OK?), then having to snort Scarface-sized piles of cocaine to keep their body from rejecting the new ticker.  Yeah…you’re […] More »

Sometimes, looking good and going fast go hand in hand. I’d argue there’s a beauty in the symmetry of a well laid out engine bay like this one. Everything is clean, which helps, but the star of the show is the two twins sitting up front. They’re like trumpets heralding the arrival of horsepower. Each […] More »