The 1978 Dodge Magnum carried Chrysler’s final production 400 four-barrel, quietly closing the book on Mopar’s wedge-block ...

The 1969 Mercury Marauder X-100 packed a 429 V8 with 360 hp in a luxury coupe package. Still affordable at $15,800, this ...

The largest engine the C8 models actually ship with is the 6.2-liter LT2 V8. One engineer managed to get an 8.1L big block ...

It’s alive! It’s aliiive! And it can be driven! Not that there was any doubt in the passion project that put an 8.1-liter big block into a C8 Corvette. If anyone was gonna make the ballsy pairing work ...

There was a time in American muscle car culture when the Big Block V8 was the king of engines. The bigger the displacement, ...

Three and a half years of engineering have brought this beast to life with direct injection, variable valve timing, and way ...

Produced during the short-lived but exciting era when muscle cars reigned supreme, these high-horsepower motors ran their way to legendary status one quarter mile at a time. The muscle car era started ...

Hot rod builds a mouse trap and tries to catch a rat. Originally published in the August 1998 issue of Hot Rod magazine. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring ...

When you think about classic Chevy muscle cars, there are two models that immediately come to mind for just about everyone - The 1969 Chevy Camaro and the 1970 Chevy Chevelle. What gave these cars ...

Unlike their flashy intermediate and pony car siblings, these full-size coupes from the golden age of muscle donned a button-down look. However, under the hood, they hid some serious big-block muscle.

While there have been some iconic big-block engines over the last few decades, it's difficult to argue with the success of the small-block engine. Small-block engines not only weigh less — allowing ...