You wouldn’t know it by looking at her or from listening to her talk so passionately about motorsports, but Cynthia Gauthier went to school for accounting to become a CPA. Cynthia, originally from Quebec, Canada, didn’t start racing until she was 18 years old. She may have started later than most, but the seeds of a motorsports adrenaline junkie were planted a while back, and today, she’s one of the best Monster Jam drivers around.
We caught up with Brett LaSala of Real Street Performance and MSR Racing at Sick Week 2023 to get the details of his Mustang nicknamed Snot Rocket and its twin-turbo 5.0L Coyote engine built by Fast Forward Race Engines. He had just run a PR of 6.52 at 212 mph and then went on to
We caught up with Brett LaSala of Real Street Performance and MSR Racing at Sick Week 2023 to get the details of his Mustang nicknamed Snot Rocket and its twin-turbo 5.0L Coyote engine built by Fast Forward Race Engines. He had just run a PR of 6.52 at 212 mph and then went on to place 3rd overall and win the Modified class. It's our Engine of the Week.
At Lights Out 14, Ryan Milliken of Hardway Performance put on a show and demonstrated how far diesel performance has come in recent years. Making it to the semi-finals against some of the country’s fastest cars, Ryan’s ’69 Nova sports a turbocharged 6.8L Cummins engine built by Fleece Performance & Freedom Racing Engines. Capable of
To give our small block Ford build some extra horsepower, torque and wow factor, we opted to go with TorqStorm’s twin supercharger kit. Check out our review of this boost option. Related Articles – David Pilgrim’s Dual Compound-Turbocharged 6.6L LBZ Duramax Engine – EB Takeover: New Performance Automotive – Reviewing Cloyes’ Race Billet True Roller
GODZILLA!!!!! We stopped by the Fluidampr booth at the 2022 PRI Show to say hi and found Paul Svinicki of Paul’s High Performance hanging out, along with his nitrous-powered Ford 7.3L Godzilla engine that runs in his 2010 Cobra Jet Ford Mustang. This 1,100-horsepower Godzilla is our Engine of the Week. Related Articles – Block
Steve and the guys previously walked through decking and boring a block on the new Rottler F69A machining center. Now, they walk through lifter bores and receiver grooves. Related Articles – Steve Morris Engines Gets a Massive Delivery! – Bullet Racing Engines’ Supercharged 526 4.900″ Chevy/Hemi Engine – Cleaning with Dry Ice? Cold Jet’s Kevin
Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) and PNC Bank have selected the class for the second year of their women-only internship program. Related Articles – Drag-and-Drive World Champion to be Crowned in 2023 – 30th Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show Open for Registration – Joey Logano Races to First Cup Win at Atlanta The Women In Motorsports
During the 2022 PRI show, Steve Morris took the opportunity to get a run down of a Rottler H80 honing machine very similar to the one he just purchased. Check out what this Rottler can do! Related Articles – Twisted Customs’ 6.7L Cummins Engine – Intellectual Horsepower: All About Harmonic Dampers – Larry “Spiderman” McBride’s
At the 2022 Piston Powered Autorama, we saw several awesome diesel trucks sitting in the Twisted Customs booth. We got to chat with owner Zach Carpenter about his new 2019 Dodge Ram with a new generation 6.7L Cummins engine. Related Articles – EB Takeover: W.O.T. Motorsports – Reviewing Callies’ Ford Magnum Crankshaft – Twin-Turbo LB7
Harmonic dampers are a component that seems simple on the outside, but there’s a lot more to dampers than you might think. Hear from the experts at Fluidampr.
