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Preventing Late Season Failures (Part One)
Throughout the season, things can go wrong unexpectedly. These problems cause loss of points and loss of money, both from fixing the problem and from loss of prize money. So, it is in our best interest...
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Inside Piston Design: Dish, Dome, and Flat Top Pistons Explained
Beneath the Flame Automotive performance pistons are manufactured in flat-top, dome or dish configurations—but such a variety in crown design doesn’t suggest that engine builders will always have a...
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Follow the Steps to Auto Detailing
Y’all know that feeling that comes with completion of most any arduous task, right? The work isn’t fun until it’s nearly done. Just going by memory, about a month has passed since we spent a whole...
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Inside a Fuel Car’s 3,700°F Slider Clutch
What it Takes to Get 11,000hp to the Ground Nitromethane-powered NHRA Top Fuelers and Funny Cars (fuel cars, for short) still use a manual clutch despite the direct-drive transmission, but they’re more...
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Sketchy Business: Matt Gordon’s 1932 Ford RPU
As I was walking amongst the AMBR contenders at this year’s Grand National Roadster Show, I pretty much knew which car would end up taking the 2017 title … and so too did the guys from Goolsby Customs,...
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Huge Muscle Car Turnout for 2017 San Marino Motor Classic
00The seventh annual San Marino Motor Classic (SMMC), building upon the success of last year’s event, assembled another outstanding field. The concours included a diverse mix of more than 350 vehicles,...
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Ford Reveals Specs on 2018 Mustang with More Power and 0-60 Faster than A...
The horsepower war continues as Ford announced the most advanced and powerful Mustang GT ever. The 2018 Mustang GT will deliver 460 ground-pounding horsepower from the latest 5.0-liter Coyote engine...
View ArticleRotsun’s Turbo 5.0 Beats Everyone’s Epectations on Engine Masters – 617 LB-FT!
In this episode of Engine Masters, presented by AMSOIL, David Freiburger, Steve Dulcich, Steve and Brulé find out just how much cheap horsepower a Fox body 302 makes on a Ford Power Stroke...
View ArticleGALLERY: World of Outlaws Champion Racing Oil Summer Nationals
Mechanicsburg, PA- Mother Nature bested the World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series on Saturday, preventing the series from completing the Champion Racing Oil Summer Nationals at Williams Grove....
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The Gen 1 and 2 Ford DOHC mill is long on power potential, with 200-plus...
There are skeptics who believed Ford would never do an engine like this. Even diehard Ford Performance enthusiasts said it would never happen. As the skeptics bemoaned the Ford corporate bureaucracy,...
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Super Stock Racer Bucky Hess and his Kandy Kuda
Super Stock racer Bucky Hess is a drag racing history aficionado. He is the owner, builder, and driver of the nostalgia-themed SS/AH 1968 Plymouth Barracuda, “Kandy Kuda”. His race car shop, Bucky’s...
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Kawasaki’s Hellcat for the Water
How Kawi Brings 310 BHP Out of a 1.5L Sportbike Engine Can we just call this the Hellcat of Jet Skis? It needs a low-power key for the weak-willed, it’s got a blower, and it’s just about as irrational....
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Car Craft Summer Nationals 2017 Saturday and Sunday Photo Gallery
Wow, it was a hot, humid weekend in Bowling Green, Kentucky, but that didn’t keep the automotive faithful from joining us at Beech Bend Raceway Park for the Chevrolet Performance Car Craft Summer...
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Mercury Didn’t Build A 1954 2-Door Wagon, So This Merc Fan Built His Own
Mercury introduced the Sun Valley in 1954, and produced only 9,761 of these Plexiglas-topped models for that year. Tom Cagle from Burlington, Illinois, is very familiar with those cars. He has owned...
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This Guy Lives Sideways In A Blown 1968 Hemi Dart!
You have to give the young guys of Bob Welling’s generation a lot of credit. While Detroit unleashed muscle on America, he was among the tens of thousands of guys in Vietnam as a U.S Marine. The honor...
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Shop Manual—Making Trunk Mounted Fuel Tanks Safe
I have emailed you many times and you have always replied with the information I needed, so here is another one. I am building a 1932 DeSoto three-window coupe, hoodless, fenderless, Gen 1 354 Hemi...
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The Highest Bidder Will Win a Perfectly Good Guitar!
Born to be played this custom painted one-off red, white, and blue beauty by Tennessee Electric Guitar is to be auctioned off at Classic Instruments 40th Anniversary Open House Car Show/ NSRA...
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In the Muscle Car’s Heyday, Just Like Today, Chrysler Cranked Out Hot Cars...
Editor’s note: Today we are pleased to present the debut column by Diego Rosenberg. Diego may be familiar to MUSCLE CAR REVIEW readers because he has contributed to the magazine in the past, and he...
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First Look! Rare 1-of-1 Billboard Hemi ’Cuda Resurfaces!
Curtis Wellborn was looking through the extensive paperwork that had come with a car he and his better-known brother Tim had just purchased. He had been reading the options out loud—the ’71 Hemi ’Cuda...
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A Look at Two LS Powered GM Pickup Trucks
When did half-ton pickup trucks become so cool? Probably about the same time folks realized they offer the same level of style and rear wheel drive performance potential as traditional 2-door coupes,...
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