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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety put a trio of America’s best-known sports coupes through its full crash test battery in a May 2016 release, and none of them walked away with a TOP SAFETY PICK award. Long hoods, low rooflines, and rear-drive proportions built for speed don’t always cooperate with small-overlap crash structure. What actually held these pony cars back is more specific than the headline suggests. Watch to see how the numbers break down.
A routine nitrous pass off Mexico Racing League’s camera turns into a real-time lesson in why a 100-shot kit needs its own dedicated fuel system to survive. What starts as a hard, loud launch ends with something under the hood giving way in an instant, and a comment section full of tuners explaining exactly why. The failure has nothing to do with the car being cheap and everything to do with basic nitrous fueling math. See what actually went wrong.
This 1967 Camaro convertible trades its long-gone factory small-block for a 383 stroker, backed by a TH350 automatic, Hugger Orange paint, and enough chassis work to put real power down. Convertibles were already the rarer first-gen Camaro body style before anyone touched the drivetrain. Read on to find out what it takes to build a driver-focused first-gen right.
Gearhead Garage breaks down 11 of the most common muscle car upgrades that actually hurt performance, safety, or resale value — from oversized wheels to spool rear ends. Some of these mods are things owners save years to install. According to this list, that might be the problem. Watch Part 1 to see the full breakdown.
Getting the right drag wheels onto a modern muscle car isn’t as simple as it was on a classic Chevelle or Mustang, and that fitment gap is exactly what Race Star built its business around. From a single wheel design launched in 2009 to a catalog partnered with NHRA Pro Stock and Pro Mod racers, here’s how the company earned its spot on serious drag cars.
Bob Welling served as a Marine in Vietnam, came home a died-in-the-wool Chevy guy, and still ended up chasing down a piece of 1968 Mopar history decades later. What started as a simple fix for an engine rattle turned into a full supercharged Hemi build — one so powerful that hitting the throttle at highway speed sends the rear end sideways. Read on to find out how a tribute to Dodge’s rarest factory drag cars became Bob’s daily street cruiser.
Nick’s Garage settles a long-running Mopar argument by testing the exact same stroked 426 Hemi with factory-style manifolds and then with headers, back to back, on the same dyno. The results push back on some assumptions viewers walked in with, and the comments are already asking for a round two with bigger headers. Watch the full pull-by-pull comparison to see which setup actually made more power.
The 1972 Dodge Dart Swinger never wore a big-block badge, but do not let the compact A-body fool you — Dodge tucked a 240-horse 340 V8 under that unassuming hood for buyers who knew what to look for. Add in a mid-year facelift and sales north of 200,000 units across the Dart lineup, and you have got one of Mopars most underrated sleepers hiding in plain sight.
A 1970 Dodge Super Bee, brought back through a full rotisserie restoration and finished in Dodge’s factory Vitamin C orange, is listed at $38,900 with a spec sheet deep enough to satisfy a serious Mopar buyer: a built 440 with Holley and Edelbrock parts, a 727 TorqueFlite, an 8-3/4 rear end, and period-correct details down to the Pistol Grip shifter. See exactly what’s under the paint and whether the asking price actually holds up.
Plymouth built just eleven 1971 Barracuda convertibles with the 426 Hemi engine, and only seven of them went to U.S. buyers new. That scarcity has pushed sale prices as high as $3.5 million at auction, with a different example chasing a $4.8 million bid in 2021. Read on to find out what separates a seven-figure Hemi ‘Cuda from an ordinary E-body.
This restomod build doesn’t just show off a finished classic — it walks through the entire transformation, from a full teardown to a modern powertrain swap, upgraded brakes, an all-new wiring harness, and a fresh interior that still respects the original design. It’s a rare look at everything that goes into bridging vintage style with modern performance, including the costs most builds prefer to leave out. Read on to see exactly what a build like this actually takes.
A viewer’s engine ran smooth, started fine, and seemed simply low on power, until he pulled a worn camshaft and found some valves barely opening at all. Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske breaks down the four things every gasoline engine needs to make power, and why each one quietly fades with age. One fix turned into a bigger power gain than anyone expected. What’s actually happening inside an engine that feels “just old”?
Ford’s 2018 Mustang refresh did more than reshuffle the sheet metal in response to a sharpened new Camaro. The GT quietly inherited a twin-disc clutch, suspension hardware, and Magnetic Ride Control straight off the Shelby GT350’s parts shelf, turning what looked like a mid-cycle facelift into a genuinely better driver’s car. Read on to see exactly what Ford borrowed from its own halo model.
Before a single Demon rolled off the line, FCA Powertrain engineers set themselves an internal goal that sounded impossible in 2015: a 9-second quarter mile with the front wheels lifting off the ground. Dodge revived a forgotten badge last used on a 1970s compact to carry that mission, and eventually delivered on every part of the promise. Read on to find out how close the finished Demon actually came to that original engineering target.