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This Compound-Turbocharged Cummins-Powered Ford F1 Makes 1,200 HP and 2,000...
Whatever you do, do not call this pickup a rat rod—let’s clear that up from the start. Owner/builder Scotty Birdsall hates the term because it implies shoddy construction, either on purpose or due to a...
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Inside the Bennett Racing Engines 400U 1,600HP Small-Block Ford in Joel...
Over the past few years, Bennett Racing Engines worked with longtime customer and three-time NMCA champion Joel Greathouse to showcase the capabilities of its 400U small-block Ford package, in both...
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HOT ROD’s Favorite Products From The 2017 SEMA Show! #TENSEMA17
For half a century, the SEMA Show has been THE place to release new products. Here’s what we saw in 2017. Half a century ago the recently formed Speed Equipment Manufacturers Association did something...
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Freiburger: ’67-72 C10s Are Up. I’m A Fan, But Is That Good?
Time For Bed It’s become C10-town around here. Staffer Phillip Thomas moved to Cali in a ’69 he still drives, Car Craft’s John McGann has been building a ’67 longbed forever, the HOT ROD Garage show...
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Coyote-Swapped Street/Track 1966 Mustang Fastback
Mark Thomure’s 1966 GT fastback might look like an old-school modified, but it’s not. He tore down the old school and waved bye-bye a long time ago. Crammed between shock towers, notched for clearance,...
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COPO Camaro Drag Racers Make the Straight Line Spotlight
Maryland Traditionalists Veteran racer George Taylor is giving East Coast drag racing fans a retrospective look back while campaigning his vintage-appearing Super Stock 1967 Camaro. Taylor is the...
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This ’32 Dodge Is Both Street Rod & Off-Road Pre-Runner!
Phil Cercone’s radical ‘32 Dodge Coupe rewrites the book on street rodding. Transport yourself back decades to a Saturday matinee with a dim room on the screen. A single bulb lights the dark corner of...
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I had a lot of fun putting together the collection of readers’ rides for the January 2018 issue of Muscle Car Review. Lots of great cars with fascinating histories, and I know you’ll enjoy reading...
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MCACN 2017: 1968 Chevelle Malibu
Robert Schumacher was just 17 when his father invited him to join the family landscaping business. To sweeten the deal, Schumacher the elder offered to replace Robert’s 1957 Chevy four-door hardtop...
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The LMC Truck C10 Nationals Week to Wicked—The Square-Body Episode: Before...
For every creampuff or cherry farm find C10 there are at least a hundred, um, curd puffs. You know the ones I’m talking about, the “ran when last parked” deals that look fairly decent from the outside...
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The 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk: A Hellcat Powered SUV
The 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk is perhaps one of the most ludicrous sport utility vehicles to ever roll out of a manufacturer’s facility. With a supercharged 6.2L Hemi putting out 707 hp and...
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A Better-Than-New 1966 Mustang GT
“We try to take out inherent problems that were always there,” Randy Roberts said. Inherent problems? “Like the OEM brass two-core radiator. It will not flow enough water. It didn’t years ago—they had...
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Car Craft Project Car Update, January 2018
Here we go with one of those blanket project-car update articles. Lots of things have been happening lately, and the pace is only going to increase over the next few months. In this installment, we...
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Iron Maiden, Part III How to Make 496 HP from a Junkyard 6.0L
This is going to cause some headaches for the forum dwellers who claim that nothing less than rectangle-port heads and a giant cam will make 500 hp on an LS engine. We made nearly 500 with a little...
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Stepped Headers Can Broaden an Engine’s Area Under the Curve
How Do Stepped Headers Work? A tuned length primary exhaust header pipe creates a rarefaction (negative low-pressure wave) that’s reflected back up the pipe. On a standard header the negative wave...
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Join The STREET RODDER Road Tour To Minnesota For Back To The 50’s
The first tour of the 2018 United Pacific/STREET RODDER Road Tour presented by Ford Performance turns out to be one of the most popular of the entire Road Tour summer. The Minnesota Street Rod...
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A 305ci Engine Makes Big Horsepower Using a TorqStorm Supercharger
Old-timers who were around back during the original muscle car era will look back longingly on the engines that ruled the streets then: the 290hp 302, the 350hp 350, and the 375hp 327. Those of us...
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Week to Wicked 2013 Mustang Build Coming Soon!
If you haven’t already heard about the Week To Wicked program, it’s where we take a stock ride and build it up to a highly modified street thumper in just five days. Admittedly, everyone involved in...
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Remembering Jack Merkel
This week, we mourn the passing of Gasser drag racing legend, Jack Merkel. Jack Merkel’s racing career began on Long Island when he was 16, behind the wheel of a 1955 Chevy. He racked up many wins the...
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New Product Overview: Ford FE heads from Trick Flow
SEMA 2017 was a great show for fans of the Ford FE engine. Trick Flow Specialties announced that they would be releasing a new CNC-profiled head for the FE, while across the hall Comp Cams was showing...
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