Home Wrenchers - Season 01

Hert's GS300 Finally Gets its 2JZ Installed, PLUS a Surprise Kikawa Visit at Home!
We knew these two couldn't stay apart. It was only a matter of when they would finally reunite. Kikawa stops by Hert's home for the first time ever, and is surprisingly proud of Hert! The GS300 al...

Street Wrenching With Sean: Subframe Gets Beefed up on the S52 Swapped M3
Anyone who’s like us and enjoys performance cars from the 90s straight off the Craigslist dealer lot knows that all those rubber bushings, suspension mounts, axles, CVs, etc. etc. are all on borro...

Building a 600hp ’74 Chevy C10 Chopper Hauler - in 10 Minutes!
When Zac first picked up his ’74 Chevy C10, it was a humble commuter/work truck - that had NO idea about what was in store for it in the very near future. Throughout 2019, pretty much everything b...

The Nicest Interior Ever in a Hoonigan Car?? Chase’s ’67 Gets Fully Redone Inside
So many times, the interior of a project car ends up being a second thought. It doesn’t make you go faster, you can’t really see it from the outside, and sometimes it takes a whole lotta effort to...

Dyno Time, Before and After. Simple Bolt-ons = Unlocking +30hp on Vin’s E92 BMW M3!
N/A V8 life is a real conundrum sometimes. They tend to make real nice sounds, they’re super reliable, and (in the case of the s65) can rev nice and high without worry. But getting good power gain...

Is VANOS Evil? Sean Makes it Look Easy on his BMW S50 Rebuild
VANOS, VTEC, MIVEC, VVTI… all fancy ways to spell out the magic thing that some cars’ camshafts do to help you hit those highs AND lows. While Sean’s s50 is on an engine stand, it’s a wise move to...

Making a 1978 K5 GMC Jimmy 200% More Live-able With Sound Deadening
Yeah yeah, we know. Usually you’d expect us to spend hours removing sound deadening, and anything else that doesn’t help make a project lighter or faster. But look - sometimes, when it comes to a ...

Zac’s K5 Blazer is a Wiring Spaghetti Nightmare, Can it be Saved?? Also, It Gets Fresh Steelies
You know you’re in trouble when picking up a new project vehicle, and you start seeing some Home Depot spec DIY wiring work under the dash. Chasing lines, cleaning up random connections and fuses,...

Hert's AE86 Corolla gets Wheels, Carbon and Cooling! Almost ready to be the perfect daily driver.
Hert's effort to build the perfect daily drive is almost over! He's taken time away from his 2JZ GS300 project to shift the energy towards his 4AGE AE86 Toyota Corolla. It gets fresh RS Watanabe W...

Full Carbon Driveshaft for Project Boomhauer, AKA Zac’s 600+hp Chevy C10
Do you need a carbon fiber driveshaft in a big old steel sided truck? Duh. Of course you do. You can throw a carbon driveshaft at almost anything and we’d be down with it. On top of that, since Za...

BMW Street Wrenching Saga Continues: Sean’s Daily Driver E60 530i Gets Overhauled
Home Wrenchers doesn’t always mean we’re garage bound… some of us have to wrench in the streets. And when your old faithful daily driver ain’t so faithful, it needs a little bit of overhauling no ...

Zac’s NEW Project Truck: ‘78 Big Block K5 GMC Jimmy!
The Chopfather himself has decided that while his Boomhauer C10 pickup is pretty much “done” and great for turning tires into clouds, there’s something to be said about ignorant amounts of horsepo...