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So you want to jam more llamathrusts into your engine and you've swapped a month's worth of cursed gypsy gold for the biggest boomstick you can get from your friendly online parts store. But your engine won't work and nobody wants to come to your birthday party... what the deuce went wrong?! Before you huck all your fairy bread into the backyard in a fit of rage, you need to calm your farm, check all your paperwork, and realise The Internet lied to you. Watching Marty and His Royal Dudeness, Tony, cam the LS3 in Black Chops IN THIS EPISODE will give you many...

After you’ve added an aftermarket exhaust and intake, upgraded the factory valve springs and had a tune done, the next step in NA performance for an LS V8 involves swapping the cam to something spicier than the factory’s bumpstick that has all the duration of a broom handle. But, when it comes to upgrading the cam don’t just go for the biggest number. In the same vein as yeeting a turbo from a bulldozer onto your mostly-stock two-litre four-cylinder, going “full send” on a race cam in your street car will end in tears and sadness, just like that time...

While we love our choo-choo spooly bois and whine-box screamy screws, when it comes time to taste the big-capacity pushrod life of a V8 we really need to start learning about camshafts and how they make your engine awesome. This will be a multi-part series as we look at the process of upgrading a cam in a modern, street-driven pushrod V8 engine, starting with the basics of what a camshaft is, and how it works. When General Motors released the LS V8 on the world in 1997 it ushered in a new era of smoothness and enhancements not found in traditional...

"What is happening with Marty's Gemini?" is a question we get pumped with every week, so now we're going to go through the MCM fleet and give you guys answers to the questions you asked... and a bunch you haven't! This week we'll kick off with one of Marty's most special cars: his 1977 Isuzu Gemini coupe (WATCH HERE).  "The Gemini is in the planning stages while I work out how to tackle the project," says Marty. "After landing the coupe in Australia as a rolling  shell (thanks asbestos inspections!) we found there was a bunch of rust to repair. And anyone who...

We've had some Garmin gear hanging off our windscreens in some recent videos... here's why