Editor’s Note: This series counts down the Top 10 engines of all time—see how the voting was done by reading our initial post. The small block Chevrolet changed the hot rodding world forever. It was the small block Chevrolet 265 that started the revolution back in 1955, but the Chevrolet 350 is the standard-bearer for this
Editor’s Note: This series counts down the Top 10 engines of all time—see how the voting was done by reading our initial post. Tomorrow, we’ll reveal your #1 engine of all time. Before we do, we thought we’d give a little love to those engines that just missed the Top 10. These are engines that garnered
What do you hear when you listen to your engine? The primal roar of high performance? Or is it more like a cry for help? OK, we never want to think of our engines doing anything but chewing up asphalt and waking up the neighbors—let alone crying! But even the manliest of mills can have problems, and the sounds
Editor’s Note: This series counts down the Top 10 engines of all time—see how the voting was done by reading our initial post. “That thing got a HEMI in it?” Yes, your Top 10 Engines of All Time list does have a HEMI in it—and it’s the legendary Chrysler 426 HEMI “Elephant.” History Mopar is celebrating the
Editor’s Note: This series counts down the Top 10 engines of all time—see how the voting was done by reading our initial post. The LS engine family made up a huge number of votes for your 10 favorite engines of all time, but the LS1 proved to be the most popular. The 5.7-liter, 346 cubic-inch LS1
[portfolio_slideshow id=27694] Back in the early 1960s, the best tire you could get for a street/strip car was the Atlas Bucron. The Bucron was basically a retread bias-ply tire with a stickier tread compound. A fast street machine was hard pressed to break into the fifteens with a set of Bucrons, but they were the
NASCAR qualifying may never be the same. The world’s premier stock car racing series will switch to “knock-out” qualifying for the 2014 Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Camping World Truck Series. Single-car qualifying is no more. The new qualifying format will be similar to what you see in the IndyCar Series and Formula One. This new
A parking lot is a parking lot is a parking lot—unless it’s the Summit Racing parking lot. On any given day or time, the lot outside a Summit Racing store can turn into an impromptu mini car show, depending on who’s stopped by the store. Each Wednesday, we’ll share our parking lot find of the
Editor’s Note: This series counts down the Top 10 engines of all time—see how the voting was done by reading our initial post. Some are undoubtedly puzzled that this inline 6-cylinder engine landed fairly high on the list. Others might be surprised it made the list at all. The rest of you—the ones that have actually owned the
While Chevrolet did produce a select few 427-cubic-inch engines a few years prior (the Z11) for the Chevy Impala, the wildly popular Chevy 427 V8 engine became available to the general public in 1966. The engine won instant fans, because the powerplant offered versatility and piles of horsepower. The 427 powered vehicles across the spectrum
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