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Lessons learned from a six-year stint building nitromethane funny car engines

I spent the first half of the 1970s wrenching on supercharged fuel Funny Cars. Those familiar with the breed know that even back then, nitromethane-burning Funny Car engines had short fuses and made ...
autoevolution

GM Brings Back the Engine Build Experience for Corvette Customers. What Exactly Is It?

Chevrolet announced the return of the Build Your Own Engine experience over the weekend, when it auctioned off the first-ever Corvette ZR1X at the first Barrett-Jackson event of the year. It is the ...
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Toyota Has A Crazy Idea To Build An Engine With A Ladder Frame

Toyota patents a ladder frame engine block design for V6/V8 engines, potentially for GR performance cars or heavy-duty ...
Hot Rod

Behind the Build Episode 8: We Visit Ruffian Cars in Orange County

In Behind the Build Ep. 8 presented by Hagerty, we head to Fountain Valley, California, to visit Ruffian Cars, where founder Chris Ashton has built a reputation on one bold promise: “Building wild ...
SlashGear

13 Tiny Car Engines With Unexpectedly Impressive Horsepower

Traditionally, in engine building, high displacement and high horsepower figures go hand in hand. You've probably heard the phrase, "there's no replacement for displacement." While that might have ...