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1. Honda Civic with a Turbo LS3 Update

Monday, 15 August 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / Honda Civic with a Turbo LS3 Update

Honda Civic with a Turbo LS3 Update | Matt Hickman spends his days running Alliance Fabrication in Haslet, Texas. On his down time you can find him working on his tube chassis Honda Civic drag monster. In our previous article Matt was building ...
... SME cam, Fuel Injector Clinic 1000 cc LS3 Hi-Z injectors, and a Bullseye 83 mm turbocharger. On an engine dyno it produced 1,060 horsepower on 14.5 psi of boost and can easily hold more with a stronger cooling system. In case you are wondering ...

2. Custom Widebody Fiero with a 700 HP Turbo 4G63

Thursday, 19 May 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / Custom Widebody Fiero with a 700 HP Turbo 4G63

... mid-engine layout the Fiero is a great choice. Right from the beginning the Fiero was going to get a strong powertrain from Mike’s previous project, a 1990 Eagle Talon. The 4G63 inline-four and five-speed manual transmission had already ...
... been upgraded and would prove strong enough for the task. The bulletproof 2.0 L 4G63 was upgraded with Ross pistons, Eagle rods, 272 Crower cams and valvetrain, and JMF intake manifold. Running off a Dynatek ARC-2 and ECMLink V3 it produced ...

3. Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo Ute – Part 2

Saturday, 23 April 2016 Content / build-threads.com / Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo Ute – Part 2

... Grubbo’s focus shifted onto the very intricate roll cage. As this Ute is getting built to run in a range of different forms of Motorsport, the cage not only has to protect the driver in the event of a roll over or high speed touch up, ...
... the running gear is stripped for paint. Once the front end was finished, it was time to focus on locking this rear end into the roll cage. This is more basic with 5 straight bars, linked together to make a super strong rear section. This section ...

4. Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo Ute – Part 1

Friday, 22 April 2016 Content / build-threads.com / Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo Ute – Part 1

... of a turbo ute with the sole purpose of building a crazy track car that would not only make heaps of power and do a skid, but be well-balanced and run good times at both race tracks and drag strips alike. So let’s take a look at the strengths ...
... on the huge amount of makes and models available on Australian roads. Aussie built cars dominated the 70′s and 80′s while the popularity of Japanese and European cars grew strongly as cars became more affordable and shipping made ...

5. For Sale: The First V8 Swapped Porsche In The World

Tuesday, 08 December 2015 Content / engineswapdepot.com / For Sale: The First V8 Swapped Porsche In The World

... brakes paired with this huge rubber will literally make your eyes hurt when stopping. They are extremely strong! -STEERING Steering is very tight, no dead spots or play. And for as wide of a tires and track that is has, it very responsive ...
... pistons, Chevy HiPo rods, and a SCAT crankshaft. Rod installed a cam from Engle Racing Cams with a custom profile made to lower the compression so the engine could run pump gas. Feeding the engine is a Holley 850 cfm double pumper carb. All ...

6. east coast attacks

Saturday, 28 November 2015 Content / lowtechblog.blogspot.com / east coast attacks

... they did what should be done with any running hot rod: They drove the hell out of it. But they also wanted to change a few things: »We had a great little white tuck and roll seat built with gold piping so we could fit in it better. And ...
... the last couple years, those east coast style cars have a strong standing next to the popular west coast style. Among those guys digging the east coast style are Matt Kimmel and his buddy Isaac Bowser. Almost ironically, they’re located ...

7. east coast style

Saturday, 28 November 2015 Content / lowtechblog.blogspot.com / east coast style

8. 1973 Toyota Celica with a Twin-turbo 1UZ-FE

Tuesday, 29 September 2015 Content / engineswapdepot.com / 1973 Toyota Celica with a Twin-turbo 1UZ-FE

... turbocharger running 12 psi of boost. The transmission choice started with a stock Crown A340e automatic transmission which was setup to run in full manual shift mode but very quickly gave way to a Toyota R154 five-speed transmission. Rounding ...
... comes from a Toyota 1UZ-FE V8 sourced from a 1992 Celsior. These engines are very strong and take boost very well with little modification. Steve’s completely stock engine produced 573 horsepower to the wheels from a single Precision 6262 ...

9. Cadillac Coupe de Ville with a 6.0 L LSx

Tuesday, 22 September 2015 Content / engineswapdepot.com / Cadillac Coupe de Ville with a 6.0 L LSx

... that runs on methanol and produces around 600 horsepower. The block has 400,000 miles on it and still running strong. The rest of the drivetrain consists of a Turbo 400 transmission and Ford 9″ rear end. The best quarter-mile (in the video) ...
... that runs on methanol and produces around 600 horsepower. The block has 400,000 miles on it and still running strong. The rest of the drivetrain consists of a Turbo 400 transmission and Ford 9″ rear end. The best quarter-mile (in the video) ...

10. 1986 Buick Grand National with a Twincharged LSA

Monday, 21 September 2015 Content / engineswapdepot.com / 1986 Buick Grand National with a Twincharged LSA

... and Extreme Automatics build a Stage III 4L80E automatic transmission with custom 1st and 2nd gears, components strong enough to handle the power the new engine was going to produce. Another modification that would free up more room under the ...
... hood was installing a Vintage Air system by ArizonaGN. Once at Forced Induction Tuning, Rod did his magic so the LSA would work well not only with the supercharger but also with two 57 mm Garrett turbochargers. While running on E85 and the ...