When 1910 Meets 2026: Racing Internals in Brass Era Beasts! 🏁📜

The latest V8 Radio Podcast is LIVE! Kevin and Q-Ball are joined by the master of the "unobtainium," Mike Pestello from Coachcraft and Precision Services. If you think restoring a muscle car is tough, try building parts for a 1907 Packard from a single photograph! 🤯

Mike takes us deep into the world of Brass Era restoration, where 100-year-old engines get treated to modern 4340 billet cranks, racing pistons, and serious compression bumps. We’re talking about pre-WWI cars completing 4,000-mile endurance runs without a support vehicle!

In this episode, we cover:

• 🔧 Reverse Engineering History: How 3D scanning and printing are saving cars built before the Titanic sank.
• 🏎️ The "Sleeper" Century: Hiding modern racing engine technology inside 120-year-old engine blocks.
• 🧟 The Zinc Pest Nightmare: Why "New Old Stock" might actually mean "crumbles in your hand."
• 📉 Dyno-ing the Ancients: Building a custom dyno because modern ones can't handle engines that max out at 2,000 RPM!
• 🏆 PRI Show Recap: Highlights from the Performance Racing Industry show and the emotional Hall of Fame inductions.

😂 Funny Moment: Don't miss the trivia segment where Kevin and Mike Pestello accidentally share a brain cell! They both gave the exact same answer to two completely different trivia questions. Great minds think alike... or maybe they've just been around too many exhaust fumes? 💨🤔

Listen now and subscribe!

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• Coachcraft and Precision Services: cpsrestorations.com
• V8 Speed and Resto Shop: v8speedshop.com
• Performance Racing Industry (PRI): performanceracing.com
• SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association): sema.org
• COMP Cams: compcams.com
• Driven Racing Oil: drivenracingoil.com
• Edelbrock: edelbrockgroup.com
• Hammer Down Podcast: v8speedshop.com/tag/hria-podcast/

Dig the latest V8 Radio Podcast – Kevin and Mike recap the muscle car magic from the 2025 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, share trivia triumphs, and geek out over rare rides like that drool-worthy Starlight Black GTO!

🔥 Topics we revved through:

• MCACN extravaganza: 640 cars, Hemi B-body convertible invasion, Z16 Chevelle showcase & the epic red carpet display!
• 1967 Pontiac GTO Ram Air unveil – black beauty with buckets, 4-speed & rare pedigree
• Overhead Cam Six Pontiacs, Maple Leaf Muscle from Canada & survivor stories like the 256K-mile '66 Shelby GT350H
• Personal picks: Kevin's Bamboo Cream '70 Buick GS 455 4-Speed Convertible (Dave McClelland's ride!) & Mike's Sprint Six LeMans convertible

😂 Funny moment: Mike's epic drool over the Starlight Black GTO leads to Kevin joking about installing a "Cue Ball's Drool Pond" with gondola rides at the convention center! 💦🚣‍♂️

Companies Mentioned:

• Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals (MCACN): https://www.mcacn.com
• V8 Speed & Resto Shop: https://v8speedshop.com

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On the latest V8 Radio Podcast – Kevin's hopped up on cold meds so he's a bit goofy, but the mellifluous vibes are STRONG! We dive deep into SEMA Show 2025, automotive trivia, Q-Ball’s GTO block resurrection, and a LOT more! Listen and subscribe! #V8Radio #SEMAShow #MuscleCars

• SEMA Show recap: New dealers, 2334 display vehicles, the Smokey Yunick Camaro, thousands of new products & the epic SEMA Cruise chaos!
• 1969 Corvette build spotlight with Coker Tire's hot new redline/raised white letter Pro-Trac radials
• GTO 400 block teardown: Cracked, but not dead! Dyno dreams ahead!

😂 And: Kevin apologizes on-mic for blocking media cams at the SEMA Cruise: "Sorry, I was the guy with the big bucket of brains!" 🤯