Author Archives: Eric Rood

This Sportbike-Powered, Active-Aero Fiat is a Garage-Engineered Wonder

6SpeedOnline.com Fiat X1/9 Yamaha R1 sportbike engine swap homemade aero race car track

This Italian-built Fiat track special demonstrates sheer awesomeness. Fiat’s Bertone-designed X1/9 has always looked the part of a purposeful race car. However, its paltry engine held the mid-engine Fiat back from being a world beater. After getting ahold of them, though, enterprising tuners have graced some of the little two-seaters real horsepower. For Italian Albano Fabbri, [...] More »

Watch a Pair of Turbocharged Lamborghinis Dominate an Airport Race

6SpeedOnline.com turbo turbocharged Lamborghini Lamborghinis Pump Gas Invitational Dallas Performance

Big horsepower and clean aero wins at Pump Gas Invitational in Texas. As airstrip racing has grown, enthusiasts for it have found a handful of particularly effective platforms. That’s no different than most other forms of racing, but when racing on airports for more than a quarter-mile, people have increasingly turned to Nissan GT-Rs, mid-2000s [...] More »

HOONIGAN Drives (and Breaks) an 1,100 Horsepower 1988 Mazda RX-7

LS1tech.com HOONIGAN 1100HP RX-7 LSX horsepower

Twin-Turbo LSX RX-7 magnificently walks the line between drift and drag car. HOONIGAN’s Daily Transmission includes some highly entertaining videos that catalog builds, people, and hooning. Lots of hooning. On this episode, the Daily Transmission host meets up with Will Tetro’s beastly 1,100-horsepower 1988 Mazda RX-7. Like so many RX-7 fans, Will dispatched with the [...] More »

Testing Ferrari’s New GTC4Lusso Shooting Brake

The Ferrari GTC4Lusso is the next great Prancing Horse wagon Ignition got their hands on Ferrari’s GTC4Lusso, a beautiful two-door wagon. The show’s host, Jason Cammisa talks it up and in the age of hyper-luxury SUVs, we’re happy to see this kind of car from Ferrari. And what better way could someone introduce a fine [...] More »

Cammed C6 Z06 Sounds Fantastic While Running 10s

Cammed Corvette makes all the right noises running hard through the quarter-mile.

eBay Find of the Week: A ‘Cheap’ 1969 Porsche 911 S Race Car

6SpeedOnline.com Porsche 911 S Race Car 1969 Cup eBay find cheap

Score a classic Porsche bargain with a classic 911 race car. Today, a pile of rust shaped like a 1969 Porsche 911 S brings six figures. Okay, we exaggerate (a little), but how do you score a ‘69 911 S for under $40,000? The answer to that question is—like the answer to most important questions—“race car.” [...] More »

2017 Chevy Camaro GT4.R Debuts In IMSA Competition

LS1tech.com Chevy Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R IMSA debut

Stevenson Motorsports takes the race-bred Camaro GT4.R to COTA. After a year’s absence, Stevenson Racing has returned to IMSA’s Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge with a new Chevrolet Camaro. Unlike the previous-generation Z28, Chevy has built this car, the Camaro GT4.R, to international GT4 specifications. That will make it eligible to race internationally, but Stevenson gave [...] More »