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They call it Deathtrap, and it was built for one of drag racing’s most unforgiving formats: small tire, where a narrow drag radial has to absorb everything the engine makes. The Fox body Mustang has become the default chassis in this class for reasons Ford never anticipated when it built the platform as an economy commuter. Read on for why turbos suit the format, and why the converter matters more than the horsepower number.
Most builders pick one form of forced induction and stop there. This 1969 Camaro SS runs a 14-71 supercharger, a pair of 68mm turbochargers, and a fogger nitrous system, all feeding the same 468-cubic-inch big-block. It sits on a full Pro Street chassis with a cage, wheelie bars, and a parachute, yet the interior is finished in leather good enough for a Riddler contender. Read on for why nobody, including its owner, has ever put it on a dyno.
At Outlaw Armageddon 2017, Big Chief brought his proven car, the Crow, to a High Roller grudge match against Murder Nova, who was still logging shakedown passes on a brand-new combination. No-prep racing runs on exactly this kind of imbalance — a sorted, familiar car against a fresh, unpredictable one, with a bigger-than-usual purse riding on the outcome. Filmed by FarmtruckandAZN from deep inside the no-prep grudge racing scene, the race is the kind of matchup that gets replayed and argued about long after it is over. Watch to see which car actually had the edge.
This meme swaps a real astronomy lesson for a joke about exhaust smoke standing in for clouds, using the classic ‘look son’ format recycled across the internet for years. The punchline is rooted in a real mechanical fact: older carbureted big-blocks tuned rich for performance genuinely produced visible smoke under hard acceleration, something today’s computer-controlled engines almost never do. Read on to find out why this exact joke keeps resurfacing across muscle car pages, generation after generation.