While there is a lot of worth in a perfect number’s matching car, restomods offer the best of all worlds. When people first started ‘restomodding’, the car community was somewhat skeptical about the ...

Chevrolet has just become (again) the sole car manufacturer to offer the Build Your Own Engine experience. The program will resume this spring ...

Power is what hot rodding is all about. The classic approach is to take a stock or near-stock engine and tweak it until it thumps. But what should you do first? There are literally hundreds of roads ...

What happens when you try to build a functioning car engine using only parts from a budget shopping app? One Florida TikToker put Temu to the ultimate test—and against all odds, it actually worked.

I spent the first half of the 1970s wrenching on supercharged fuel Funny Cars. Those familiar with the breed know that even ...

It’s the late 1980s, and Toyota has spent most of the past decade building a reputation around reliability, efficiency, and no-nonsense engineering. Their practical, simple, and durable cars routinely ...

Before we give up the goodies, we need to explain what "hemi" means, because there's some nuance to the hemi code. If you are, say, a copy editor forHOT ROD, a "hemi" refers to a type of engine with a ...

Last month, we introduced you to Blair Jennings of Santa Barbara, California ("Eight Barrels-No Waiting," Mar. '06). When Blair started planning his '66 Mustang fastback project car more than five ...

If you're looking for a budget-friendly small-block Chevy V8 for your next pickup truck project, look no further than these five crate engines available for less than $4,000. Follow us: When thinking ...

Traditionally, in engine building, high displacement and high horsepower figures go hand in hand. You've probably heard the phrase, "there's no replacement for displacement." While that might have ...