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Clifton has been a car fanatic since his late teens, when he started the restoration of his '67 Camaro. He considers himself a student of automotive science and technology, and particularly loves all things LSX. And although he has an appreciation for everything from imports to exotics, his true passion will always be for GM muscle cars.
If there’s one thing we love, it’s a good-old fashioned LS swap – and not just into an old muscle car either. Recently the Guys at Victory Racing Engines sent us some info on a supercharged 5.3L Jeep they are building up to help raise awareness for the Wounded Warrior Project. Check it out here!
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Dragstrips are businesses, and they are subject to the same laws of economics as any other business. Good ones will flourish, while mismanaged ones will fail. But racing enthusiasts have a major role to play in the success of a track – we are the only ones that can control the demand for a dragstrip’s services…
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Admittedly, I’ve never ridden in a 10 second car before, and this was even my first time to ride in a supercharged LS powered car. But it’s safe to say that St. John’s beastly black C5 has made a believer out of me….
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It’s official- Our friends at Livernois Motorsports are the first company to put a new Camaro ZL1 into the 9′s! Click here to find out just what it took to push one of these 4,200 pound mammoths to single-digit ET’s…
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Parts will break and engines will blow – it’s just all part of the natural order of motorsports. But what happens to this Norwegian Formula Offroader just plain sucks. His brand new 850 HP Turbocharged LS engine blows the very first time he makes a climb. Click here to watch…
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Whiteside Customs recently tipped us off to a new line of custom 5th Gen Camaros that their shop will be turning out in the near future. The Whiteside “Signature Series” Camaros will be based around adding visual impact, high performance suspension upgrades, and a little bit of power to go with it…
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Pfadt racing recently announced that they are selling their awesome “Ring Spec” 2010 Camaro SS to make room for a new ZL1 to play with and develop parts for. So, if you’ve got $42,000 head on over to Pfadt’s website now and drop the Ring Spec Camaro right in your shopping cart.
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Every beastly tuner Camaro has to get it’s start as a simple-stocker. In this video from our friends at Livernois Motorsports, we get a look at their 2012 Camaro ZL1 as they do baseline dyno and dragstrip testing before they really dive into modifying the car. Click here to see how their stock ZL1 performs…
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A few weeks ago we brought you the story of Redline Motorsports record setting ZL1 quarter mile run of 10.32 at 134 MPH. Now, after talking with the guys from Redline we have more details about just what all modifications it took to get a new ZL1 into the low 10′s. Spoiler Alert: It took less than you might think.
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Is there really any system on your car more important than the suspension? How a car handles and steers directly reflects on how you feel driving the car, and few cars are as well-known as the Corvette when it comes to handling and driver experience. Here’s a look at how to make your Corvette handle better…
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The ZL1 wasn’t designed as a drag car, but the team behind the car is smart enough to know that the new 580 horsepower Camaros will see plenty of drag-strip time at the hands of their new owners. So, they tested with the stock tires, and even bolted up a set of drag radials to give it hell just like you would.
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We caught up with Stewart Weissman, owner of this 5th Gen SS that won the Goodguys’ Standard of Excellence award at their Del Ray event last fall. Virtually every area of this car has been customized, and it has the performance to back up it’s looks. Click here to get all the details on this “gold-skinned” hottie.
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Edelbrock’s E-Force supercharger kit for the C6 made it easy for late-model Corvette owners to add a little boost to their naturally-aspirated Y-bodies. Now, the tuning experts at Lingenfelter have taken that hardware and adapted it for the C5, turning these inexpensive Corvettes into blown street terrors.
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The 4LXX automatic overdrive transmissions are a great way to “get shifty” no matter what you use your car for. In stock form they are great for mildly modified street cars, and they can be modified to take a beating from 1,000 plus horsepower engines. We talked with three top trans builders to get all the info.
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Lingenfelter Performance Engineering can hang their hat on yet another first for the new Camaro ZL1. In a recent post on their Facebook page, we learned that Lingenfelter’s Yellow ZL1 is the very first example of the new model to achieve a top speed of over 200 HPH.Click here for more info…
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If anyone ever tries to tell you that the world of LS1 swaps has gotten stale, then they’ve clearly never seen this. Justin Miller recently filled us in on the details of his LS1 swapped Willys Jeep that he plans to use as a street/strip/show triple threat. Click here for all the details on this LS1 Army buggy…
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This beat-up T/A was bought as a LS1 swap donor, but while the engine is still in the car they decide to have a little pre-swap fun. Just put down a little bit of water, hold the brakes, apply generous amounts of LS1 power; and presto – you’ve got yourself a full-fledged junk yard burnout machine!
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LSXtv is proud to welcome LaFontaine Performance Center (LPC) to our family of site sponsors! Located in Highland, Michigan, LPC is the largest GM Performance Parts dealer in all of Michigan, in addition to being the masterminds behind the LSX454 powered “GT454″ GMC pickups. Click here to welcome them to LSXtv…
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Want to bump your car’s power up to 900 horsepower or more with less than a day’s worth of work? Check out one of Golen Engine Service’s Turn-Key Boosted LSX Crate Engines that could have your ride packing up to 1,200 horses. Click here for all the info…
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The cam gurus at Crane are particularly big fans of the venerable LS series of engines from GM, and even offer this cool LS Series Mini-Catalog that gives a sampling of their most popular products for LS1’s through LS7’s. Click here to check it out…
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Chevrolet has a Camaro for just about everyone. The SS for street enthusiasts, the ZL1 for road-course hounds, and now the new COPO for die-hard drag racers. In this video posted to YouTube, Hotrod Magazine Editor David Freiburger gets a look at the COPO, ZL1, 1LE and GM’s Wixom Performance Build Center.
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In this video from Vimeo, we get a chance to ride along with Swedish Camaro Cup driver Stefan Jacobsson in the Number 73 Prena Motorsports Camaro as it makes a few laps around Palm Beach International Raceway during a practice session this past winter. Click here to check it out…
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Within a matter of days, the ZL1 record for the fastest quarter mile pass has already been broken by the tuners at Redline Motorsports. Thanks to an arsenal of basic bolt-ons, the Redline ZL1 has posted a best of 10.32 at 134.79. Click here to watch the full video!
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True love is a many splendored thing – especially when two LSX enthusiasts fall in love, like Sarah and James Karger from Fort Worth, Texas. The Kargers just sent us these pics from their wedding featuring what has to be the most awesome Groom’s Cake we’ve ever seen; an incredibly accurate LSX engine!
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How long have we been looking for a V8 powered, rear-wheel-drive 4-door from GM? Rumors of a Zeta based, re-badged Holden Commodore coming to our shores have been circling for years, but recently those rumors have started to seem more realistic. Could autoblog’s “SS” rendering be the new 4-door of our dreams?
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If anyone knows CTS-V’s, it’s definitely the guys at D3. They also know the best way to extract every ounce of grin-inducing, supercharged fun out of them – hand over the keys to some guys who really know how to drive. Watch as J.R. Hildebrand and Tyler McQuarrie cause a tire-melting ” Caddy Ruckus”…
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The Lunati Great Cam Giveaway contest for LSXTV is officially OVER! Inside we announce our final LSX cam winner. But the contest will continue for the next two weeks on our sister magazine, StreetLegalTV.com. Click here to see who won the final cam…
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It happens to all of us; we crawl under the car to finally get started on one project, and notice five other projects that we still need to get around to. It can be disheartening and frustrating to say the least. But rather than get mad at your project car for what it isn’t, why not enjoy it for what it is?
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There are tons of stupidly-powerful LSX powered late-models out there, but few of them get put to use the way Josh Forster’s standing-mile Z28 does. We recently caught up with him during a tuning session at Cunningham Motorsports, where he was prepping for the Mojave Mile and aiming for 200 MPH…
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The COPO Camaro is officially on its way, and it won’t be long until these beasts start tearing up a drag strip near you. In the meantime, out friends at GM Performance Parts sent us over the Official Spec Sheet for the COPO to tide us over. Reading it through, we found quite a few good surprises. Check it out!
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Sunday was a very good day for Cadillac Racing, as they posted their 2nd consecutive twin-podium finish at Round 3 of the Pirelli World Challenge, held in Long Beach, CA. Driver Andy Pilgrim handily won the race by leading 22 of the 31 laps in his CTS-V, while teammate Johnny O’Connell finished 3rd…
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Who doesn’t love a free T-shirt, especially if you get one for buying something your car could really use anyway? B&M is offering you a chance you get your very own tricked-out B&M T-shirt for free if you order one of their Cast Aluminum Deep Pans and Trick Shift ATF. Click here to get the details…
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Remember back in the early 1990’s when the 454SS Trucks were all the rage? For their time they were some tough pickups, but the folks at LaFontaine Performance Center have expanded idea of a “muscle truck” and powered it with a thoroughly modern 454 mill – the LSX454. Meet the LPC GT454 GMC Sierra. Check it out…
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It’s no secret that we love nitrous here at LSXtv, especially when it’s getting huffed by over 400 cubic inches of stroked LSX. In this video we found on YouTube, we get a look at just what kind of difference nitrous can make in a serious race car in back-to-back runs, going from all motor to hitting the bottle…
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In this hilarious video we discovered on YouTube, a loving son takes his dear-old-mom on her first ever pass of an autocross course in his 2001 Camaro Z28. Before the run starts, you might think she was mentally preparing herself for a space shuttle launch, and her funny reactions during the run are priceless…
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As if anyone really needs any more proof of just how awesome FAST’s LSXr 102 manifolds are, here we have a bit of video evidence of the kind of power gains these manifolds are capable of. Click here to see just how much rear-wheel horsepower and torque this LS2 powered C6 gets from swapping in an LSXr…
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In this funny video we found on YouTube, the poor kiddo who just got his new Camaro Powerwheel seems to be having some serious troubles getting the thing out of reverse, and repeatedly runs over his helpful big brother. Click here to watch the comedy unfold…
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Have you seen one of the videos that have popped up on YouTube over the last several weeks of the helicopter crash that happened during the filming of a Korean Top Gear episode featuring the ZR1? Now our friends at Corvette Blogger have found new footage of the crash posted to YouTube that show the whole scene…
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Notice a layer of oil inside your intake tubing and manifold? It’s from your car’s stock PCV system constantly routing a nice fine mist of oil right into your intake tract every time you drive. This video from Moroso shows just how much oil can get trapped by an Oil/Air Separator even under normal driving…
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Our friends over at Lingenfelter Performance Engineering can claim themselves as among the very first lucky dogs to get to dyno test a brand new Camaro ZL1. Click here to see exactly how much power the ZL1 is making at the rear wheels on both a DynoJet and a Mustang dyno. You won’t be disappointed…
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