Riley Stair really turned heads at SEMA this year with his very unique 1970 Pontiac Firebird. Sitting inside the engine bay is a 400 ci LSx V8 and equal length 8-to-1 headers. He hopes to get 1,000 horsepower out of the naturally-aspirated motor thanks to its 10,000 rpm limit. Hertrech Eugene caught up with Riley … Read more
Riley Stair spent the past two years creating a 1970 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am shell into part race car and part art piece. The car rides on a custom tube chassis with a custom independent pushrod suspension and Öhlins coilovers. However the focus point of the car is the huge custom 8-to-1 exhaust headers winding … Read more
Snakepit Customs in Indianapolis, Indiana built this 1967 Pontiac Firebird called “Project Oculus” for Ric Peterson of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Under the hood sits a supercharged 6.2 L LSA V8 built by Lingenfelter that makes 901 horsepower and 846 lb-ft of torque. The engine features JE forged aluminum pistons, Callies Dragon Slayer forged steel crankshaft, … Read more
It’s been nine years since this 1974 Pontiac Firebird was on the road. The Swedish owner spent that time designing and building the lightest and best performing 2nd generation Firebird he could. Since our last update the owner completed an incredible amount of custom work from the fully independent suspension designed in CAD down to … Read more
Roadkill performed many engine swaps while making 76 episodes. Along the way we covered a few such as their Cadillac Brougham with a Cummins 6BT and Stubby Bob with a supercharged BBC V8. Recently Roadkill took the top unconventional engine swaps from eight of their episodes and compiled the highlights into a video we embedded … Read more
This 1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am was built by Gary Hagar at Hack Shack Inc in Rogers, Arkansas. The car rides on a Roadster Shop FAST TRACK chassis with full independent suspension, Penske RS adjustable coilovers, and Baer Extreme 14-inch rotors with six-piston calipers. Under the functional shaker hood sits a 7.0 L LS7 V8 built … Read more