Everything You Need To Know About Upgrading Your Brakes

Among other things, the internet is really good for pictures of cats, fast dinner recipes and answering questions you were too embarrassed to ask a real person. Especially if that question has to do with how a car works or how to start modifying it. Enter a video series put...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's What You Do If Your Car Overheats

It’s nearly summer, meaning thousands of Americans will start to drive cross-country. And many of us will wind up on the shoulder of the road next to a car with steam billowing from its hood. If you’re one of these sad bastards, here’s what you do. First and foremost,...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's What It Cost To Make A Cheap Toyota Tacoma As Reliable As Everyone Thinks It Is

When you want the utility of a truck, the park-ability of a car and would like to attempt to remain financially responsible, you may find yourself looking at used compact pickup trucks. Anyone who has ever considered looking into the market of practical-size used trucks knows that there is one...

Sep 13, 2025

How To Clean Your Engine Bay So Well You Could Eat Off Of It

Summer is officially here, which means you have even more of a reason to go outside and . While detailing the exterior is always important, not everyone remembers to do the engine bay. Here’s how you do it. YouTuber breaks detailing an engine bay down into five steps: preparation, dry...

Sep 13, 2025

How This Hero Gave His Porsche 911 GT3 RS The Manual Gearbox It Deserves

Few subjects are as among the Porsche faithful as the company’s refusal to put a manual transmission in the current 991 generation of their mad track weapon, the . Now one heroic owner is doing what Porsche should have done from the factory by putting a manual transmission into his...

Sep 13, 2025

These Guys Saved A Poop-Filled Mustang Mach 1 From A Junkyard And Didn't Even Get Hantavirus

Genuinely, I think the toughest part that these two had in fixing up this ‘69 Mach 1 was not getting hantavirus. This car was filled with shit, literally. I assume the poop was why such a desirable car had sat in a Colorado junkyard all these years. Again, the 1969...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's What It Takes To Make A Profit On A Non-Running Triumph Spitfire

Learning from past experiences is how we grow as individuals. So, “How?” you may ask, did I end up with yet another Triumph Spitfire? Well, let’s just say that this time around, I wasn’t looking to explore the values of classic British car ownership. This time I was hunting for...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's What It Really Costs To Spend A Year Fixing Up A Cheap Old Truck

It’s been twelve months since I finally got the vehicle I’ve wanted forever: a 1975 International Scout. It’s taught me a lot. Well, mostly it’s taught me that the cool old truck you’ve had your eye on can cost as much to run as a supercar. This janky slice of...

Sep 13, 2025

Why The Easiest Car Repair You Could Imagine Has Taken Me Six Months

Do-it-yourself’ing isn’t for everybody. Even a job as basic as changing a car’s oil is sometimes better left to a pro if you don’t, I don’t know, ever want to be dirty. There are some “repair jobs” that really are as easy as snapping to Legos together. Somehow, I have...

Sep 13, 2025

Watch This Before You Go For The Cheapo Tires

Like you, I love a good bargain. If I can get something for less at at least the same or slightly worse quality, I will generally go for the cheaper option. Haircuts are a great example. Tires? Maybe not as much. Our friends at went and conducted this test. They...

Sep 13, 2025

This Gorgeous Stop-Motion Teardown Of A Miata Engine Is Wrenching Porn At Its Finest

Thanks to miracles of modern science, the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter has become a reality, and some genius YouTuber has decided—for whatever reason—to use it to tear down a 1.6-liter B6ZE Miata engine. Either that, or this amazing video is just stop-motion—it’s not entirely clear. Few things in this...

Sep 13, 2025

This New Take On A Car Restoration Show Is Beautiful

Most car shows on TV revolve around some kind of “race-against-time restoration” and the internet is overstocked with amateur mechanics dispensing DIY advice. has a little bit of both, but with visual twist I really like. Karellas presents himself as an everyman car guy with limited skills, workspace and tools....

Sep 13, 2025

I Just Bought The Cheap Diesel Truck Of My Dreams

Call it a guilty pleasure if you must, but there is just something about the second-generation Dodge Ram that won’t let my subconscious rest. I was still very much in my youth when this “new age” body style was first released to the public back in 1994. I think my...

Sep 13, 2025

Mitsubishi Evo Owner Finds Forgotten Socket Left In Engine From The Factory

Have you ever heard one of those inside a patient? What happened to a Jalopnik reader and 2006 Mitsubishi Evo MR owner is essentially the same idea: he opened up his engine, and found a forgotten socket inside. Chris, the Evo’s owner, had owned the car since it had four...

Sep 13, 2025

The Way Engine Bearings Used To Be Made Is Utterly Fascinating

As cars change over the years, so do the skillsets of mechanics who work on them (just try finding someone who can rebuild a carb or an old generator). Perhaps one of the most fascinating skills that’s on its way out is a bearing-pouring process called “babbitting,” as describes in...

Sep 13, 2025