I worked as a machinist in an automotive machine shop in the early 1980s before my career took me into the aerospace sector. The shop's high volume of mundane engine rebuilds and turning brake drums ...

Apparently, there is no ceiling when it comesLS performance. Just when it seems an insurmountable threshold of horsepower, speed, or low e.t. has been achieved, the next racer is able to shove another ...

Cylinder heads are understandably a vital ingredient in any recipe for "porcupine" horsepower pie, so whether the big-block in your Corvette is being built for street performance, drag racing, road ...

The 1960s were a time that saw muscle cars with the best names and automakers racing for horsepower supremacy. While drag racers often turned to large displacement big-block engines for power, others ...

For most enthusiasts, the word “Hemi” belongs to Chrysler, yet Chevrolet quietly touched hemispherical combustion chamber design long before and after the muscle car wars. From an early luxury V8 to ...

The technology behind a state-of-the-art Pro Stocker is pretty much cut and dried. Tires, chassis, and aerodynamics play a significant and well-defined role, but it's the brute force of a ...