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In the Pit Lane: We take a look inside motorsport in Mexico City. By Omar C. It’s a Saturday morning, and I’m running late to catch a subway train. Unlike half the people aboard the subway, I’m not...

Is it really possible to have a reliable 1000 horsepower car? Reliable and 1000 horsepower are considered a borderline oxymoron, and are rarely used in the same sentence, so, is it even possible to have your...

Stephan Papadakis is building a race ready 2AR Toyota engine, and it’s amazing. You might be thinking; isn’t that basically the same engine found in a Camry? You’d be technically right, but there are...

This week we feature Klod M’s VR6 swapped Mk 3 Golf. The Mk3 Golf is generally thought of as an economy car, a practical daily commuter.  But it’s also the start of many amazing builds. Such is the...

Wait a minute, V6 Corvette? What’s up with that? Well, Al-Anabi Performance and Alan Johnson Performance Engineering developed a V6 engine by basically cutting off the two front cylinders from a 481X...

How does a Twin Scroll Turbo work exactly? Well, that’s a great question, and it deserves a proper answer, but first, why would we even want a twin scroll turbo? Twin scroll refers to the turbine housing...

How turbochargers work? By Omar C. We’ve all asked this question at some point, often getting a myriad of different answers, ranging from “it takes exhaust gasses and makes more power” to “you...

When we think of straight eight cylinder engines, the only thing that comes to mind seems to be vintage racecar prototypes from the 1920’s. However in recent times one man has built a supercharged inline...

By Omar C. Buckle up people; we’re going back in time to the wonderful era of automotive genesis and meet Adams Farwell , to a time when innovation was rampant, computers were nothing more than a...

LS Miata By Omar C. We live in a world where often we joke about Mx-5’s being cars for hairdressers, and we sometimes poke fun at people who LS swap cars from the land of the rising sun. And then comes the...