Scumbag Labs 02

Dry Ice Cold Air Intake: Does Frozen Air Make More Horsepower?
The first mod for a car you probably maybe ever head of was the infamous "cold air intake". Aside from making rad induction noises though... did they actually make more power from cold air? Or was...

The Firebird Survives a blast of 80psi!
Ok - so maybe we didn't make the best turdos or stuporchargers previously. OUR BAD. So we're cutting to the chase and going with straight up compressed air - 80psi worth of it, all flowing through...

Remote Stuporcharger: Our Best Worst Idea Yet?
Superchargers are a drag. Literally. Whining, power robbing, good for nothing power adders. BUT what if they didn't take away any horsepower... and gave us free power instead? We find out in the m...

Did We Create the Ultimate Anti-Tailgating Device - With FIREWORKS?
Since the Supreme Beam didn't work so well, we decided to step our anti-tailgating devices up a notch: with a mega ton of fireworks. Same cars, same course as last time - just upping the dangers l...

TEXTING + RACING = DISASTER
We see how much texting *really* affects your driving performance, except we can't do it on a public highway. So we devised a "scientific" course to see if texting as a driver is actually dangerou...

Did We Create the Ultimate Anti-Tailgating Device?
Tailgaters are the worst. Don't lie - you've definitely had a thought along the lines of "what kind of device could I use on this jabroni that's following me". Or something like that. So we did on...

Deploying Parachutes While Still Racing! How Much Does it Ruin Laptimes?
Parachute are for drag racing... or are they?? Not if they fall into our hands. We take our not-so-trusty Craigslist Crossfire and see what happens when we deploy a set of chutes mid-track at our ...

Ice Cream 'Oil Slick': How Much Can Ice Cream Slow You Down??
What happens when you want to try out an old spy car chase scene oil slick trick, but you don't want to spill a bunch of real oil? ICE CREAM. Lots of ice cream. Find out what happens when we put i...

Do Smoke Screens Work in a Car Chase??
We've all seen it before: a car chase is going down in a spy film. The driver hits a sneaky switch. Shoots out a plume of smoke, and gets away. So we see if that actually works... except we're not...