This Car Is S O L O U D
Yesterday I put up a story detailing some of the shortcomings of the two-rotor engine that came stock in the Mazda RX-8.…
An Electric-Swapped Honda S2000 Is Delicious Blasphemy
The Honda S2000 routinely hits “modern classic” lists thanks to its high-revving screamer of an engine. Swapping the…
Here's a Good Idea: Swap a Trailblazer Straight Six Into a Checker
The Checker Marathon (you know it as the classic New York City taxi cab) was basically a sedan like you’d buy in the…
How a $1,000 Car Build Can Cost You $27,000
The appeal is strong: instead of starting with an already worn-out old car and fixing someone else’s repairs, why not…
The Carbon-Kevlar Rhino Car Rips
It feels right that this carbon-kevlar bodied Toyota 86, the one with a hood bulge large enough to pass for a horn,…
This 2,000 Horsepower Toyota Straight Six Has Nothing To Do With The Supra
This car crossed my Instagram feed the other day and I didn’t think much of it. Oh, cool, I thought, another 2JZ swap. W…
The Lexus IS430 Was the Confusing Precursor to The IS-F
Lexus didn’t show the world the wonderful IS-F until 2007, a classic muscle car with a large car’s V8 crammed into the…
This Car Is A Fire-Breathing Rhino
HGK Racing in Latvia is known for building ultra-fast BMW drift cars using all carbon-kevlar bodies and huge…
Forget Singer, You Want a Mid-Engine LS-Swapped Porsche Reimagined by a Redneck
People pay absurd prices for Porsche restomods, but too often, those pricey, perfect cars languish away in sad collectio…
This Apocalypse-Ready Nissan 300ZX Does Battle With an Unusual Infiniti V8 Swap
Nathan Churchel has always looked for ways to make his 1984 Nissan 300ZX Turbo stand out, as merely being the second…
This Tire-Smoking Porsche 944 Showed Me Why You Basic Bros Love the LS Swap So Much
For years, I have been meh about the LS swap. General Motors’ ubiquitous V8 engine fits almost anywhere! It makes a lot…
Here's a Good Idea: Swap a 500 Horsepower Turbo V8 Into a Mercedes 190E
The little Mercedes-Benz 190E remains one of the most well-built cars of the modern age. Dependable? Certainly. Fast?…
This Toyota MR2 Was Almost Scrapped But a JDM V6 Swap Made It Perfect
Scott Leone’s 1992 Toyota MR2 Turbo ought to be the ultimate cautionary tale about Craigslist trades. He thought he was…
Here's What A $17,000 Four-Cylinder Engine Sounds Like
The Nissan SR20 is the little ball of fury that has powered innumerable Nissan budget and pro drift and drag cars over…
America's Coolest Drift Car Is This Engine-Swapped 1973 Toyota Celica
Take a look at Matt Panic’s 1973 Toyota. Under the hood is Toyota’s famed BEAMS engine from the 2000s, the last…
I Am Extremely Here For This RWD Honda Prelude With a Turbo Mercedes Engine
More and more old, light, reasonably modern rear-wheel-drive cars on the used market are ending up trashed, crashed,…
The Dino With a Ferrari F40 Engine Will Make Your Ears Extremely Happy
Everyone mythologizes the sounds of vintage sports cars of the 1960s and back, that their engines had some ineffable…
This MGB GT's Jaguar V12 Engine Blew So The Owner Completely Redesigned The Car Without A Roof
We thought Mark Sawatsky had the engine swap of the century when he fit a Jaguar V12 into an MGB GT. Only problem: it…
The Best Thing to Do With Your Freshly Engine Swapped 1966 Volvo Is Drive Across the Country
Kyle Long’s 1966 Volvo 122S wagon would be cool enough on its own, given that he swapped in the more modern…
This Guy 'Fixed' His Volkswagen Scirocco By Making It A Mid-Engine VR6
Ben Beacock’s 1981 Volkswagen Scirocco had one slight problem: its engine was toast. So, he swapped it for the beloved…