We fancy ourselves the grease-on-the-hands, budget-minded, weekend warrior types around here. That’s the type of gearhead we typically write for as well. But every once in a while it’s nice to pretend we’re hanging with the high-rollers. That’s probably why we spent so much time watching this year’s Barrett-Jackson Westworld of Scottsdale auction on TV.
What a time to be a gearhead! We have 250+ horsepower 4-cylinders and 300+ horsepower sixes. It’s not uncommon for V8 performance motors to tickle 500 horsepower and the top-tier engines in the Camaro, Mustang, and Challenger easily surpass the 500-pony mark. Oh, and it’s worth noting that all of that power comes with unprecedented
I recently bought a really awesome street Camaro with a 355ci small-block, a Super T-10 4-speed, and a 12-bolt with 4.10 gears. The engine runs really great and pulls hard all the way to 6,500 rpm but it has this really bad knock when the engine’s cold. When I first took the car on a
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