Have you ever broken down the costs associated with getting a new race engine built? Or even getting an old engine rebuilt? If you have and were surprised by how much it cost just to prepare the block ...

Find Even More Information on HOT ROD!Big-Block Chevy Buyer's Guide HOT ROD recently partnered with Dart Machinery and JE Pistons to build the biggest big-block Chevy you can with off-the-shelf parts, ...

Since the dawn of the internal combustion engine, the search for power has been paramount in internal combustion engine development and advancements over the years. Ranging in all sorts of different ...

The following pages cover the component details used to build the 385ci short-block that we’ll be dropping into our ’63 Nova. With LS engines getting loads of coverage in magazines these days, we ...

First, GM developed the new Impala SS exclusively for NASCAR Nextel Cup Competition. Now, it’s replacing the smallblock, second-generation (SB2) engine, NASCAR’s workhorse since 1998. Besides being ...

Speaking of advanced engines, Buick had, for a time, one of the most high-tech mass-produced big-block V8s ever made in the ...