In this episode of HOT ROD Garage Mike Finnegan gets tips for strengthening sheet metal using a bead roller from world-famous ...

The Ford and Chevy 427 big blocks sit at the center of one of performance history’s fiercest rivalries, yet the two engines followed very different paths from the dyno cell to the winner’s circle. I ...

Never has there been video of a Chevrolet 427 Mystery Motor running—heck, there are only two or three known engines left in the world. But HOT ROD has exclusive video of the 6,000-rpm dyno pull of Tom ...

This 581-inch EFI-fed big-block Chevy was crafted by Jeff Ginter Racing Engines (JGRE) in Artesia, California. JGRE builds a ton of engines for hardcore off-road racing and this 581 was no exception.

The age of muscle cars built up momentum for six years before erupting at the debut of the 1970s, and there was one particular motor that can righteously be called the epitome of that piston cataclysm ...

540-Inch Big-Block Chevy Makes Nearly 1,000 HP At 7,400 RPM On The Dyno Westech Dyno Tests a 540-Inch Big-Block High-Compression Chevy That Made Nearly 1,000 HP At 7,400 RPM.

Introduced in 1970, the Chevy 454 — affectionately known as the Rat Motor – was the largest displacement Chevrolet engine to enter the big-block engine showdown of the muscle car era. At 454 cubic ...

During the era when muscle cars reigned supreme, GM's Chevrolet division developed some of the greatest big-block V8s of all time. Since the early 1960s, American carmakers started offering more ...