We could take the uneducated guess—in relation to camshaft, heads, and piston/rod relationship—that somewhere in this combination, volumetric efficiency is on the rise. “If this new engine ...

Invented by Frenchman Leon Levavasseur to power airplanes, the mighty V8 has become ... Chevrolet 305? Each engine would make a fine small-block powerplant for your hot rod build, but one crucial ...

Ford Roadster hot rod, built by One-Off Rod & Custom in 2019, is currently up for sale. This stunning piece of automotive ...

From the editors of HOT ROD and MotorTrend, V8: The Engine of America, a MotorTrend Documentary Special, explores the legacy of the V-8, its significance in American car culture, and the ...

We’ve been living in the golden age of internal combustion, especially when it comes to the V8. At no point in history have V-8 engines, and the cars and trucks they are in, been more powerful ...

Once a staple of the hot rod and modification scenes, the era of the big block V8 engines has largely ended thanks to technological advances in the 1980s and 1990s. The result was 340 horsepower ...

Jeb Greenstone, president, designer and lead fabricator of the custom hot-rod company Cutworm ... all built from scratch. The engine is a beastly 1967 Lincoln 460 V8 with a Built c6 transmission ...

Take one classic American car, add one classic American V8, sprinkle with tire smoke and you pretty much have every hot rod to roll out of a shop in the last 40 years. Mike Borroughs knows it wasn ...

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