Posts Tagged: project car
During the final round of the Stick Shift class at I-29 No Prep in 2017, the Unicorn C5 Corvette — finally dialed in after a round of suspension and tire changes — caught fire mid-pass when a loose injector o-ring sprayed fuel onto the engine bay. A competing Subaru driver’s fast thinking with a fire extinguisher kept real damage to a minimum, and 1320video walks through exactly what went wrong and why. The car lived to race another day. Watch to see how close it came to not.
Episode 67 of the Motorz rebuild series picks up the Chevy 350 build at its most consequential stage — the top end, where a single missed torque step or skipped sealant can undo three prior episodes of careful work. Viewers with decades of small block experience have weighed in throughout, flagging two specific mistakes worth avoiding and trading tricks that never make it into a written manual. Watch to see exactly where a home rebuild can go right, or wrong.
An Army aircraft mechanic stationed overseas bought this rust-free 1971 Dodge Charger sight-unseen, with plans to drop in a 572-cubic-inch Hemi built for over 800 horsepower. Before the media blasting and undercoating are even finished, one question remains unresolved: stick with factory-correct yellow, or go full restomod with flat black and bold stripes? The build taps into a growing wave of big-block Charger restomods that trade numbers-matching originality for modern muscle and serious street presence.
A plate-style NOS nitrous kit, a Mopar small-block, and a set of suspiciously modern Dodge Challenger wheels come together in this Horsepower Wars install video, but the dyno numbers sparked more debate than the wrench work. While the crew walks through fuel enrichment, timing retard, and purge-line basics on a project car that might be running a stroked 402 cubic inch small-block, one commenter wasnt buying the horsepower gain shown on the Dynojet pulls. Is the modest bump proof that plate nitrous has limits, or is there more going on under that hood than the numbers let on?
The ‘Unicorn C5’ twin-turbo Corvette already put down 980 horsepower on the dyno once, then spent three months getting torn apart, rebuilt, and delayed by broken parts before the team at 1320video could chase the number again. Tucking a pair of turbochargers into a C5’s notoriously tight engine bay is never simple, and this build proves it. The team found a few more horsepower along the way and plans to push it further still.
Nearly 3,000 vehicles spanning prewar sedans to modern Hellcats fill the show field at Chryslers at Carlisle every year, drawing Mopar die-hards willing to argue over a date code for hours. This piece walks through why Carlisle became Mopar’s unofficial capital, what makes the swap meet and car corral half the draw, and why factory-correct detail matters so much to this particular crowd.
A private collector’s classified ad seeking any 1968-1972 Plymouth Road Runner or GTX, project or finished, highlights just how differently these two closely related muscle cars are remembered decades later. Built on the same platform but aimed at completely different buyers, telling them apart takes more than a glance at the badge. Read on to find out exactly what separates a genuine GTX from a Road Runner, and why the distinction matters so much to serious buyers.
A 1976 Dodge Aspen R/T doesn’t look like a factory Super Bee — because in the U.S., that car never existed. Chrysler kept the nameplate alive four extra years exclusively for Mexico, grafting a Dodge front end to a Plymouth’s tail and fitting an engine American buyers couldn’t get. One grandfather-grandson build project set out to recreate it from scratch, one badge and taillight at a time.
This build video documents a classic Mustang fastback getting the full resto-mod treatment – fabrication work good enough that commenters call the welder “legit,” a roughly $35,000 starting price for a road-ready car, and a Coyote V8 swap penciled in for later. Viewers debate the real cost of a project like this in the comments, torn between admiration for the build and warnings about where restorations quietly go over budget. One comment even imagines the finished car in a Batman movie. Watch to see the full cost breakdown.