Last week, a group of Boise State University students set a new land-speed record for a vehicle powered by vegetable oil: 155.331mph. How’d they get a diesel-swapped, 1998 Chevy S-10 to unleash such fury from mere vegetables? Read on.
The team, made up of undergraduates from Boise State’s College of Engineering, set the veggie-fuel speed record last week at El Mirage Dry Lake, Calif, at  … More
…Â Growing up in Pleasanton in the 1950s and living in a wrecking yard, all I could think of was building a hot rod. Times were really simple then. There were only two police officers in town (one for day and one for night) and if you drank too much, they’d simply drive you home. My father owned the only wrecking yard in the tri-valley area, and I was around cars all the time.
Roadsters were hot back then. A friend of our family came out to the yard one day …Â More
Roadtrip Timelapse / Drivelapse video from my 12,225 mile roadtrip around the USA from August 2011 – October 2011 shortened to 5 minutes.Â
More details and a map of my America Roadtrip Timelapse Drivelapse Project can be found here:
http://briandefrees.com/featured/usa-drivelapsetimelapse-project/Â
If you think the stock Viper is a brutal machine, imagine the Dodge sports car fitted with a Mopar-upgraded 800HP V10 like the one unveiled at the SEMA show.
The new engine, codenamed P5155872 Performance Series V10, has been developed especially for drag racing. It features an aluminum block and aluminum cylinder heads, forged steel crankshaft with forged steel connecting rods and forged aluminum pistons with a high compression ratio of 12.5:1.
If you own a Viper and want more grunt … Pictures and more