This Madman Is Stuffing A New Honda Civic Type R Motor Into A 1992 Civic Hatch

Miguel Carrera is a Santander, Spain-based 23 year-old automotive technician who’s in the process of stuffing a 306 horsepower Civic Type R engine into a 2,100 pound fifth-generation Honda Civic. It’s all part of an epic project aimed at achieving a power-to-weight figure on par with that of a Dodge...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's What Happens To Your Used Oil Filters

Oil filters are an often overlooked car component, but our own David Tracy has established that they can actually be . One thing you may not know is that when an oil filter is just dumped in a trashcan in the Wegman’s parking lot, it will probably just end up...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's Exactly What Makes The 2018 Honda Accord And Civic Type R Engines Different

The as its most powerful engine option. It’s been heralded at many outlets—including admittedly —as being an Accord with the Civic Type R’s engine. While it is based on that motor, the newly released parts catalog reveals many significant differences that go beyond early reports of a smaller turbocharger and...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's Why You Never Want To See Your Old Vehicle Again

If I just hadn’t gotten on Craigslist today, my conscience would have been fine. I would never have known the tragedy that had taken place to a machine I once held dear. So much My poor, helpless Kawasaki. What happened to you? It’s been a year and a half since...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's Everything Wrong With My $800 Jeep Grand Wagoneer Off-Road Project

David Tracy's $800 Jeep Grand Wagoneer Off-Road Project When I bought my 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer a few weeks ago, I’ll admit that I didn’t really look at it very carefully. “Frame doesn’t have holes, engine isn’t seized—I’ll take it,” I decided in desperation after failing to find a project...

Sep 13, 2025

This Obscure Nissan Engine Is Where Modern Japanese Performance Cars Began

Back in the 1970s, Nissan was sort of stuck in a rut. The gas crises had ballooned the profits and export sales of the Japanese auto industry as a whole, but Nissan had lost its edge against Toyota and even the young upstart Honda. Particularly bad was Nissan’s prestige model,...

Sep 13, 2025

Show Us Your Winter Wrenching Setup

It’s 24 degrees in the godforsaken wasteland that is southeast Michigan, so it’s a good thing I’ve got all my winter projects in a nice, warm, insulated garage. (I do not). See the Jeep Grand Wagoneer in the image below, beyond the dishwasher that I , and to the right...

Sep 13, 2025

I'm Heading To Mexico On A Quest For Redemption

Five months ago, my friends and I in Baja something fierce. Our car crashed and crushed our dreams as it collapsed onto the dust 45 miles into a 500 mile race. This week, we’re back with a vengeance. The 2017 Baja 1000, which officially runs on Thursday, is the historic...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's How To Replace The Worst Type Of Ball Joints In The Automotive World

If ball joints are allowed to degrade to the point of failure, it can lead to a wheel separating from the vehicle while driving. That is... not good. ended up having some loose joints up front, and I certainly didn’t want a nightmarish scenario like that to unfold. Here’s how...

Sep 13, 2025

How To Do Your Own Alignment With Some Angle Iron And Two Tape Measures

Like many of you, doing my own car maintenance is a big part of my life. Not only does it offer some financial advantages, it also gives a little relief from, well, everything else. Call it automotive catharsis. Some jobs, though, I always left to the pros—until recently, when I...

Sep 13, 2025

How Smart Glasses Will Help Porsche Technicians Fix Customers' Cars

Technicians at Porsche dealerships will soon be using “high-tech spectacles” to receive instructions, and to send real-time wrenching footage to the company’s U.S. headquarters in Atlanta. Here’s how the “Tech Live Look” system works. Porsche dropped a yesterday introducing a new Augmented Reality technology aimed at helping mechanics diagnose and...

Sep 13, 2025

I'm Taking My $1 Oldsmobile Alero On A 1,400 Mile Thanksgiving Road Trip; Pray For Me

I don’t know how this happened, but my —with its unknown service history and only recent “running” status after 11 months in a coma—is now my best car. As such, I’m taking it on a 1,400 mile road trip. God I hope I don’t have to celebrate Thanksgiving on the...

Sep 13, 2025

All The Craigslist Shitboxes Jalopnik Readers Have Been Tempting Me With Lately

Despite me already having seven cars in various states of disrepair, readers keep sending more Craigslist links to shitboxes! It’s almost as if they want to see me burn. Here are the most recent Craigslist links that these virtual crack dealers have emailed me. Unsurprisingly, many of these are Jeeps....

Sep 13, 2025

My $1 Oldsmobile Kicked Ass On A 1,400-Mile Trip And Now I'm In Love With A Boring Car

Last month, I bought a dilapidated . After getting this relic of a bygone General Motors era up and , I put it to the test this past weekend with 1,400 miles of crowded, pre-Thanksgiving American interstate. Now I think I might be in love. Clearly I’m not used to...

Sep 13, 2025

Crazy Man Grafts A Jeep Scrambler Body Onto A Unibody Jeep Liberty Diesel To Create A Monster

There are many reasons why cutting the top half off of a unibody Jeep Liberty, and bolting a new body onto the remains is a bad idea. But all those reasons have to do with “physics.” And when it comes to the diesel-y dreams of one 4x4 enthusiast named Jason...

Sep 13, 2025