Although there are hundreds of reputable engine builders, unless you are aiming for a restricted racing class or have specific needs, crate engines are a great choice for a street or strip build.

“Sick Seconds 2.0 got put on the back burner for us to get the Dodge Durango and everything else ready. Just too many projects, only one fab guy.”

Recently, a pair of stick shift performances, one by a drag-and-drive competitor, as well as a Cadillac nearing the 6-second zone, got our attention from a test session in Michigan.

“A 3-second pass was never a goal of mine with this car and engine combo, because it didn’t seem very possible. But recently as we got faster, and the community started asking to see it, we decided to go for it!”

1320 Video invaded the Boostedboiz space in Tampa, Florida to get the details on the multiple builds, including a few things that have been swapped to Honda engines that you’ve probably not seen before.

Carolina Drag Cruise was completed this past weekend. The event is the third event of the 2024 drag-and-drive season, held between Shadyside Dragway in North Carolina and Union County Dragway in South Carolina.

Florida No-Time Racing hosts a pair of races at Bradenton Motorsports Park in Bradenton, Florida each year, and after a two-week delay due to weather, Battle in the Bay 7 was completed yesterday at BMP.

Although he was a familiar sight in the “My Little Pony” Fox Mustang, Cali Nate also spent time behind the wheel of a single turbo Datsun 240 Z recently.

Wanting to get some more time on Dentley to find some better performance from the twin-turbo 426 cubic inch Gen 3 HEMI-powered ride, the event organizer told Clay Millican to bring the truck out.

We’ve just witnessed history. Last weekend, David and Aimee Gallimore became the first Americans to complete an Australian drag-and-drive event in their own vehicle. The intrepid explorers from Durham, North Carolina, accomplished the feat at the first-ever Hardass 1000 in an Australian-built Ford Falcon panel van powered by David’s beloved boosted Barra six. Lewis and Clarke, eat your hearts out!

Back in California after just north of 6,600 miles on their Sick Week 2024 trip, Danny Grubaugh messaged us with a headline: “The Gucci wagon will be getting some updates before its next drag-and-drive, and LS Fest West is on our radar.”

“I’m a Mopar guy, but a car enthusiast also. When a car guy sees a Fairmont Futura for 500 bucks, you click on that ad. It looked pretty clean, and I beat everyone to it.”

Needless to say, we were excited to see the Redwood Rally! The First West coast drag-and-drive! I asked Jason if he wants to go, and he lights up and says “Hell Yeah!” which is huge because he never takes time off (he has a body shop).

Maybe you’ve been a lurker, a live stream viewer, a magazine reader, or all of the above and you convinced yourself to procure an entry into your closest or favorite drag and drive event. Great job getting in, because most of these events sell out in minutes and you’ve completed your first task. But now comes the next stage: panic. How the heck do you drag-and-drive?

“Right as Brad gets to us in the lanes, we hear that we are on a 2 minute clock, so I hurried up as much as I could to move the clamp and tighten it up. I was a bit ginger with it; I knew if I broke it, I wouldn’t have time to get to the pit and get another one.”

One of the newest competitors to Sick Week in 2024 is Kolby Bouck, who made the trip from Edmonton, Alberta Canada to Orlando. Kolby has owned a few Mustangs, but this 2017 model showed up ready to party in the Rowdy Radial class.

With two of the ‘Big 3’ auto manufacturers axing their ‘muscle cars’ for the foreseeable future, what will this do to the auto enthusiast and racing community? With a limitation of these cars in the pipeline, both new and used, what will enthusiasts turn to next?

“The first Sick Week, we took dad’s car. The second year, we took my 1988 model. This year, we decided to take both models.”

You’ve just got into your favorite drag and drive for 2024. You paid the entry fee with excitement, without so much thought as: “SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!” But what’s it going to set you back?

“In 2018, I bought another car, and this Supra sat. Meanwhile, the cars we should’ve been racing with got quicker and faster, and this Supra continued to sit and not get used.”