Chainsaw Powered Motorcycle

Straight out of the unique engine swap folder comes the Dolmette motorcycle which is powered by 24 chainsaw engines. The chainsaws put their power to the ground via a single belt drive system. All together the engines make 24 cylinder 1.9 liter engine putting out around 167 horsepower and about 100 ft.lbs. torque. Dolmar explains the system below better then I can. The heart of the combined power plant is the central drive belt casing of aluminium construction. As well as encasing the eleven...

18/09/2008

Colin Masterson’s S12

Colin Masterson knows his way around a S12, which is why he is a co-admin at Club S12 forum. But he is better known for his very unique S12. Colin bought the car in 2004 but didn’t really start to modify it until 2005. That year he swapped out the original interior for a black one, swapped a better condition factory VG30E, and had the body cleaned up and painted. In 2006 Colin decided to begin turning his car into something very rare, a RB20DET powered S12. Up until that point it had...

29/08/2008

Cars and Coffee - Irvine California Meetup

One of our readers gave us a heads up on the most recent Cars and Coffee meetup which was posted in the NAGTROC forum. A large diversity of great cars showed up ranging from Porsches to muscle cars to a new GT-R. This purple Datsun 510 stood out in particular because you don’t see too many of these and second it has a swap. It appears to have a very clean SR20DET swap with probably some upgrades such as the Brembo brakes. Check out all the rest of high quality photos over at...

25/08/2008

Carbon Fiber Wheels

Carbon fiber is finding its way into every product car related these days. Now it seems carbon fiber is now being used in wheel production. WheelsandMore 20″ wheels weight only 13 lbs compared to a typical 20″ alloy will could be as high as 40lbs. But these wheels don’t come cheap. WheelsandMore is charging [...]

15/02/2008