A couple of decades ago, you could easily pick the boneyard for an inexpensive engine core that would polish up nicely with a little cleaning and some machine work. Chrysler made millions of big-block ...

GM has turned out a ton of variations of their venerable LS series of engines, and one block that's easy to find and fairly cheap to buy is the 6.0L iron version. These blocks are perfect for boring ...

Dynamometers are extremely useful tools for benchmarking a vehicle’s performance. They aren’t without issues, though; they’re expensive to buy, take up a lot of space, and require training or ...

Unless you can get your hands on one of the ultra-rare suicide-door examples, the tenth-generation Lincoln Continental was never a particularly cool car. Heck, even with the suicide doors, it's really ...

Pete Aardema and Kevin Braun build custom racing engines in San Diego, California and their latest creation is a 6.0-liter V12 that’s being prepared to go hunting for land speed records. While Aardema ...

Chassis dynamometers(or what we commonly refer to as a dyno) have become an essential tool in the pursuit of maximum engine performance, regardless of whether you’re building a modified street machine ...

Last year, famed Toyota tuner Stephen Papadakis decided he was going to build a 1000-horsepower drift car out of a new Toyota Supra, and retain the factory BMW B58 turbo inline-six engine. After ...

The chassis dyno has revolutionized engine tuning. These sophisticated machines accurately plot an engine's power curve as measured at the drive wheels by unleashing the genius of Sir Isaac Newton in ...