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SpeedKore’s Full Carbon Muscle Cars Stun At SEMA

A small Wisconsin shop turned heads at SEMA by building classic Mopars with body panels made almost entirely of carbon fiber — hoods, fenders, even fender flares, shaving roughly 600 pounds off cars already packing supercharged Hemi power. SpeedKore’s builds have since gone from show-floor curiosities to Kevin Hart’s personal fleet, a Fast & Furious movie car, and an actual Dodge parts catalog. Here’s how a carbon-fiber gimmick became one of the most respected names in modern muscle car building.

Classic green vintage pickup truck parked on grass.

1957 Chevrolet Pickup Hudsons Rod and Customs Shop Truck

by Kiril

Hudsons Rod and Customs is refreshing a 1957 Chevrolet pickup that already wears the shop’s own logo, a client’s truck serving double duty as a rolling advertisement. An LS swap is planned for reliability, while a temporary Cadillac-sourced leather interior holds things over until a fully custom cabin gets built. Watch to see what a custom shop chooses to change on its own showcase vehicle.

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LS Upgrade 6.0 to 6.2

by Wes

A 6.0-liter LS truck engine doesn’t become a 6.2 with a few bolt-on parts, and this hands-on build video from Myvintageiron7512 shows exactly why, bore work, machine shop tolerances, and the same architecture GM used to build the LS3 that powers C6 Corvettes and fifth-gen Camaros. One viewer summed up the appeal simply: this is someone who clearly knows the platform inside and out. See what it actually takes to bridge the gap between a budget truck engine and genuine LS3-spec displacement.

Bright orange classic car with hood open at a car show.

Chevrolet Nova 1970 Street Machine

by Kiril

This 1970 Chevrolet Nova wears a modern LS swap and carbon fiber accents, but the platform underneath was already capable of serious performance straight from the factory — Chevrolet’s own 396-badged, actually 402-cubic-inch, big block was available for just $475 that year. Read on to find out what Chevrolet’s engineers offered buyers before anyone thought to drop in an LS.

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LS1 VS Old School 350 Chevy

by Wes

Myvintageiron7512 lines up a modern LS1 against a classic small block 350 for a straight side-by-side comparison, correcting a bore-and-stroke mix-up right in the video description. The comments turned into a deep dive on why GM’s small block became the most swapped engine in history, from matching bellhousing patterns to 850-horsepower stroker builds. Watch to see the comparison and judge the debate for yourself.

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Chevy LS Engine Part 1 Tear Down

by Wes

This LS engine teardown starts with the same uncertainty every rebuild does — you never quite know what years of neglect actually did until the first bolts come loose. Viewers ranging from lifelong diesel technicians to first-time builders have weighed in on the technique, debating everything from head bolt removal order to a cheap salvage-yard 6.0-liter with an oddball factory quirk. Watch to see exactly what comes out of this engine, one bolt at a time.

DRAG RACING on the STREETS of Texas!

by Kiril

Turbo Mustangs, a nitrous-fed S10, a Viper, and a twin-turbo Chevy II all showed up to the same stretch of bare Texas asphalt for one wild night of no-prep street racing. Without a prepped surface to lean on, every launch came down to raw nerve and whatever grip the driver could find on his own. It’s the same chaotic, unscripted energy that turned Discovery’s Street Outlaws franchise into a national phenomenon. Here’s what a real no-prep night looks like when the cameras aren’t running the show.

Two muscle and tuner cars parked side by side at a car show.

AMERICAN MUSCLE CARS vs IMPORT TUNER CARS DRAG RACING

by Wes

Street Wars at Raceway Park in Englishtown mixed muscle, import, and tuner cars into the same lineup on March 13, 2016 — and the pass everyone still talks about wasn’t a muscle car win. A car nobody expected to touch a Nissan GT-R ran a clean 10-second pass and caught the whole crowd off guard, while a Hemi-powered entry went home with a loss one fan still can’t forgive. Watch to see exactly how the lineup shook out.

Muscle car with open hood showcasing its engine.

They Were BORED with LS’s! – NEW World Record!

by Wes

Doug Cook and the team at Motion Raceworks skipped the well-worn LS platform for something almost nobody had real data on: GM’s Gen V LT4. With virtually no seat time on the new combination, they walked straight into Hot Rod’s Drag Week 2017 chasing a record, and immediately ran into wiring harness gremlins that nearly derailed the entire attempt. See how a team with no playbook turned a fresh, largely undocumented engine build into record-setting territory.

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Why is the LS so GOOD??

by Wes

Tom Nelson of Nelson Racing Engines has built some of the most respected high-horsepower LS combinations in the business, and in this Drive feature he spends twenty minutes explaining exactly what makes the platform special — knowledge dense enough that commenters started calling him “Motor Yoda.” One viewer even backed up his points with a 130,000-mile Camaro SS that never missed a beat. Watch to find out what separates a good LS build from a great one.

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“1957 Chevrolet 210 Post” Big Oak Garage

by Kiril

Big Oak Garage’s 1957 Chevrolet 210 post sedan hides a modern LS engine and Wilwood brakes under 68-year-old original paint and a set of new wheels deliberately aged to look decades old. It is a restrained build in a genre that usually chases attention, until the comments reveal a setback during the process that longtime viewers still call heartbreaking. The car came back from it anyway. Watch to see how Will Posey and the crew pulled it off.

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Hot Rod Chassis’ 1967 Chevelle

by Kiril

A 1967 Chevelle built for a road course sounds like a contradiction, because these cars were engineered for straight lines and stoplights. Chad Hill and the crew at Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle built one anyway, called it Rush, and gave it a splitter, a wing, a Ridetech cage and enough LS power to justify all of it. Making a fifty-year-old A-body actually turn takes far more than bolting on aero. Here is what the job really involves.

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Unleashing Raw Power: Transform Your LS Engine to 650HP Beast

by Jack Harmon

Backspeed Boys set out to build a 650-horsepower LS engine, and by their own account it turned into something closer to a dare than a spec sheet. Viewers who watched it come together compared the assembly to snapping together oversized Legos — until the finished engine made the chassis visibly twist under its own torque during the dyno pull. Built around a forged Eagle rotating assembly and no shortage of machine shop time, this is what happens when a familiar platform gets pushed past its comfortable ceiling.

Engine dyno test setup with turbocharged engine and sensors.

EngineLabs LS vs Coyote Shootout: The Winner Crowned

by Wes

EngineLabs and the Horsepower Wars crew settled the endless LS-versus-Coyote debate the only way that counts: two engine builds, a strict $9,999 budget each, and a dyno at the respected Westech Performance Group that doesn’t care about brand loyalty. The results compare more than peak horsepower, weighing efficiency and power delivery across the curve for both platforms. See which engine came out on top — and why the argument still won’t die in the comments.

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American V8 Muscle Cars – Sights and Sounds!

by Kiril

This compilation skips the commentary and specs entirely, letting a lineup of American V8s speak for themselves through pure sound and acceleration. From big-block burnouts to sleeper street cars, it’s a reminder that muscle car culture has always run as much on exhaust note as horsepower figures. No narration, no sponsor pitch — just cars doing what they were built for.

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