All-out horsepower is why we get up in the morning. It's at the heart of this magazine, the hot rodding hobby, and might actually be the reason the world goes 'round—though we lack the astrophysical ...

After purchasing a book on rebuilding small block Mopar engines, and a book dedicated to building stroker small blocks, I set to finding a used 360 block in the nearby junkyards. Dirty Promises A ...

I just started school, and all of my courses are in the auto shop. One of them is Engine Building, and it turns out I need parts. Thing is, I'm not quite sure what to build other than a 426 Hemi or a ...

In the Great Ideas Hall of Fame, the first builder to create the ubiquitous 383 stroker combination is right up there with whoever invented s'mores and Philippe Kahn, the guy who stuffed a camera in a ...

Building a big-block these days is a far cry from what it was 10, 20, and 30 years ago. Today, even a 454 is considered small when compared to all the 496 strokers, 502s, 572s, and so on. The 427s are ...

The LS2 small-block GM engine has only been out for a couple years, and it's already captured the imagination of the automotive world. As standard equipment in the GTO or base C6 Corvette, it provides ...

Hang around an American car meet long enough, and you will hear the phrase stroker, or stroked engine mentioned, followed by some bragging about torque and such - most often with regard to a Ford ...