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Crate Engine Swap Kit Puts Motus American V4 in Polaris XP1000

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It had to happen. The Motus V4 Baby Block®, is a 100 cubic inch (1650cc), 180 horsepower, V4 engine that Motus developed for their new line of comfortable American sport bikes. As news of the motorcycles spread during development, hot rodders all over the world were looking at the little V4 and asking, "Hey, could I just buy the engine?" It just so happens, you can and it's … [Read more...]

Masterpiece Mechanics

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Now that smartphones are everywhere and people are constantly taking pictures, some get the silly idea they've become photographers, so when you come across work like this, it quickly becomes apparent, taking great photos requires something more, a lot more, things like creativity and actual photographic skill. Freddy Fabris is a photographer for the advertising industry … [Read more...]

Get Your High Performance Crate Engines From an Unexpected Source

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Thinking of restoring your classic car, but the engine is shot? Maybe you need a new high performance Ford crate engine from Shelby for your Cobra project, where should you look? Have you tried Amazon? Wait, what? Amazon? The first time I ran across their engine selection, I thought there must be some mistake, short blocks, long blocks, remanufactured engines, high performance … [Read more...]

Distributor Test Machines are Once Again Extinct

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Several years ago I wrote an article about King Electronics, a company in California that had purchased the name of the original, but out of business, King Company of Cleveland. Their aim was to bring back the King distributor testers many of us remember from years gone by. Sun and King were the big names of the machines found in garages and speed shops decades ago, (actually, … [Read more...]

Rites of Passage – Manual Shift Transmissions

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You wouldn't know it today, but performance cars used to have manual transmissions and mastering the fine art of shifting was the sign of someone serious about driving. Learning to drive for many meant jerky starts, stalled cars and dreading that traffic light on a hill when the car behind you stopped too close to your rear bumper. Can you get rolling forward without rolling … [Read more...]