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Project BlownZ gets a power upgrade in the form of a brand-spankin’-new ProCharger F-1X supercharger. We spoke with ProCharger’s Sergio Schifman, who was happy to detail some of the performance advantages of this new piece. Testing and race results inside!
For the last several months, we’ve been teasing about our ultimate Chevy project car receiving its very special LSX engine from our friends at BluePrint Engines. Luckily, the 1964 Chevelle, appropriately named Project BluePrint, is now finally ready for the process we’ve all been waiting for – check it out!
The dynamometer is the handiest tool in your toolbox – it can assist you in diagnosing many issues along with providing the real-world horsepower and torque figures your car puts to the ground. We go behind the scenes with Dynojet to find out the real deal, and show you our new in-ground 224xLC…
Those familiar with the popular saying, ‘Hard Work beats Talent, Every Time’ should relate to our tale of our infamous drag racing project car ‘BlownZ’. But our crew pounded away and we proved the slogan true, recording our first seven-second run in Pomona.
One of the first shows that kicks off the season each year is the Michigan F-Body Meet and Greet, near Milford, Michigan. Hosted by the Michigan F-Body Association, it draws hundreds of Camaros and Firebirds and for the past several years, it has also drawn the attention of GM engineers. Check out the scoop here!
Follow along as our intrepid English Corvette dude Nigel Dobbie experiences the Hot Rod Power Tour…
Keeping up with the fast-changing developments in piston design can be challenging for the engine builder. Trey McFarland of Mahle Motorsports answers questions about topics like piston speed, coatings and materials.
We teamed up with the LS pros over at LME to build some real-world dyno-proven LS power. We’ve already taken care of the short-block portion. Here, we’ll put together the top-end, show what we used and what it made on the LME dyno. Check it out, right here!
Although the winter season means no racing and rarely driving your performance car here in Colorado, Dragon Pro Street Engineering, a local performance shop, is changing the idea of a miserable winter into an exciting time to modify cars for the good weather to come. But this isn’t just your ordinary shop…
Attention Corvette owners! If you’re headed to the 2013 National Corvette Museum Bash in Bowling Green, Kentucky this weekend, you’re going to want to read this… If you’re in the area and have a date with your couch instead, you might want to change your plans.
These days, a first-generation Camaro and a LS powerplant go together like peas and carrots. Or peanut butter and jelly. Or [insert your own analogy here]. But more often than not, it’s a ’69 model year example that’s received the benefits of 21st century technology in the form of an LS-Series engine.
Camaro5 has a hefty post chock full of pictures and stories from the latest Texas Camaro meetup, the Texas Camaro Revolution. With hundreds of cars participating, the Texas Camaro Revolution was definitely an event we don’t ever want to miss again.
Called the Holden HSV GTS, it packs a 575 horsepower LSA engine under the bonnet, the same engine found in the Camaro ZL1. With GM now selling the Commodore in the U.S. as the Chevy SS, it shouldn’t be too difficult to make this car a reality in America. But that’s never stopped GM before.
The web is buzzing today with GM’s release of standard pricing and options for the 2014 Corvette Stingray Coupe and Convertible. Enthusiasts and media-types alike are pulling out their calculators to price out their dream package when the much-anticipated Corvettes hit the showroom floor later this year.
If you’ve always shied away from the “Fast and Furious” franchise because the thought of paying to see a bunch of hopped up Hondas and Mitsubishis isn’t your bag, the latest version might more to your liking. Check out F&F6 with uber American iron and the crazy LS3 powered, 4-wheel steering “Flip Car.”
With last’s week’s announcement that the 2014 Corvette Stingray will start at a base price of just $51,995, we thought we’d put that in context by looking at the inflation-adjusted base price for each model year from the Corvette’s 1953 introduction. There are some surprises to be uncovered…
Whether you have a late-model GM musclecar with an LS-Series engine, or a classic with an LS-swap, your modern alloy powerplant could benefit from the GZ Motorsports 6061 T6 Aluminum Gilmer Belt Drive Pulley. We have all the features and benefits below, thanks to the official press release from GZ Motorsports.
GM revealed plans for a two-door Cadillac ATS to dealers at a Las Vegas event recently, even showing off a few pictures of the new car. GM hopes the ATS coupe will attract a younger crowd.
Tom Kempf’s LSX-powered Pontiac Trans Am, fresh off a rebuild last summer, hit the track for early season testing over the weekend with a new look and prepped for a new category, carding a nice 4.42 in the eighth-mile.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a company with more options for adding nitrous to an LS engine than Nitrous Express, or simply NX as it’s known to their fans. Founded in 1996, and still owned and operated by Mike Wood, the company takes great pride in the quality, engineering, safety, and power of their systems.
Check out how these simple tools from Perma-Cool will help you to save time, energy, and bloodied fingers when assembling your expensive AN hose and fittings. They have the added benefit of preventing the fittings from getting marked up.
JC Beattie Jr. wanted to race his COPO Camaro but feared hurting the numbers-matching engine. So he called on Katech to build a carbon copy of the factory engine, but with the potential for more than 1,100 horsepower.
There has been a new record set for the quickest 5th Gen Camaro still using a stock style IRS suspension! Click to watch as this wicked twin-turbo 427ci powered Camaro runs 8.47 at 168 MPH to set the new IRS Camaro record…
GM spilled a lot of ink (pixels? ones and zeros?) in its efforts to lighten the 2014 Corvette Stingray, but the 2014 Corvette C7 still weighs 90 pounds more than the outgoing C6.
If there’s an “underdog era” of Camaros or Firebird out there, it’s definitely the 3rd-Generation cars. Built during a time we had an actor in the White House, and good build quality was a hot selling point of the Japanese, the third generation cars never received much love from the automotive world…
If you’re like us, you’d prefer to build your own car than buy one that’s already built. However, every once in a while an opportunity comes along to buy a built car for a fraction of what it would cost you to build it – a car like this turbo 408ci 4th Gen that is 1,000 horsepower capable…
Every time we see one of these body-less salvaged Corvettes our minds run wild with crazy project car ideas. This running and driving low mileage C6 Z06 especially got our gears turning. Step inside for all the info…
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ProCharger is about to unleash their new i-1 supercharger that promises to completely change the way we think about centrifugal boost.
JET Performance has went from a small, aftermarket performance chip for the early PCM-controlled cars of the eighties, to offering hard aftermarket parts for today’s musclecars. They developed another winner with this new pulley designed specifically for the 2010-13 Camaro SS. Scroll down for more information.
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