Tech Projects

I’ve been building cars for decades, including a lot of Corvettes. Over the years, I’ve owned and worked on C2s and chrome bumper C3s. I even toiled for the NCRS […]

You can check out the other installments in this series here: Going Shop-Ping Toyota Land Cruisers may have a cult following, but most of the faithful wrench their own. And […]

Put in the correct order, the numbers four, two, and seven have an almost mythical aura to the Bowtie faithful. That’s because some of the most iconic machines to come […]

Our project vehicle—a 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser named “Beast”—had 250,000-miles on the original engine. There were signs of a head gasket leak, a known issue with these engines at high […]

There’s travel, there’s adventure travel, and then there’s overlanding. Originally used to mean horseback cattle drives in the Australian outback, the term “overlanding” now refers to self-sufficient, vehicle-dependent adventure travel […]

There’s a persistent narrative out there that bolt-on performance parts for the Jeep 4.0L engine just don’t work. That’s not true, you just have to manage your expectations. The problem […]

Is the carburetor dead and gone? Not by a long shot, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t come a long way with EFI. Sure, carburetors have been used to provide […]

As proprietors of the Stay Tuned and Vice Grip Garage channels respectively, Tony Agnelo and Derek Bieri are dedicated to the proposition that it doesn’t take cubic money to go […]

Whenever considering an EFI swap on a vintage engine, or swapping in a late model motor, there are many puzzle pieces that must come together. Most EFI conversion kits out […]

Let’s do some quick, easy math, where your basic 1 + 1 = 2. We all know that big motors make more power than smaller motors, right? We also know […]