In the January 1999 issue, we challenged ourselves to build an engine capable of putting a 3,300-pound car into the 13-second zone for $500 ("Getting Away with It"). We stipulated that the engine ...

Our pocket-change performer Camaro is back. After a quick hiatus that Tim Moore spent thrashing on a new motor, we're now quicker, faster, and more powerful than before. We've got a lot to cover in ...

I started learning to work on cars in the late 1970s by helping my stepdad turn salvaged mid-1960s Chevy Chevelles into street-stock-class race cars. Throughout that period, I had my hands on a number ...

Perception is reality. Read enough online stories, and you would think every hot rod out there is rockin' a 700-hp high-end engine under the hood. The truth is that most cars are putting out anywhere ...

All small-block V8s we have today can trace their roots to the 350-cu.in. from the 1960s. Introduced under the L-48 codenamed in the 1967 Camaro, the 5.7-liter blunderbuss has been reimagined as a ...

A car's engine can be more important than the car itself, sometimes. Beloved engines like the Ford 300 were used for decades in multiple models of vans and trucks before finally retiring for good in ...