Trans Am Tribute Engines: Building a Maximum Chevy DZ302
I’ll tell you right up front—I’m a diehard Ford enthusiast and have been for more than 50 years. That was pretty challenging in high school back in Maryland with a […]
Devil in Disguise, Part 1: We Build a 383ci Stroker Small Block Chevy That Looks Like a Classic LT1 350
In the long history of the Gen I small block Chevy, there are a couple of high-water marks most everyone knows about. The first was the 375 horsepower, fuel injected […]
How to Build a 357 CID Small Block Chevy Road Race Screamer!
Back in the Before Times, Jeff Latimer of JGM Engineering in Southern California wanted to do some road racing and built a 357 cubic inch small block Chevy for a […]
How To Choose the Right Bilstein Shocks for a C3 Corvette
The Summit Racing website has more than 12,000 listings for shock absorbers. The selection ranges from simple hydraulic shocks to gas-charged, single- and double-adjustable, off-road, and specialized racing shocks for […]
Little Red Corvette Part 1: A 1971 C3 with Lots of Hidden Issues
I’ve been building cars for decades, including a lot of Corvettes. Over the years, I’ve owned and worked on C2s and chrome bumper C3s. I even toiled for the NCRS […]
Overland Cruiser (Part 3): Shop Work
You can check out the other installments in this series here: Going Shop-Ping Toyota Land Cruisers may have a cult following, but most of the faithful wrench their own. And […]
A High Performance 427 Chevy…in Small Block Flavor! Get Build Details from the “Engine Power” TV Show
Put in the correct order, the numbers four, two, and seven have an almost mythical aura to the Bowtie faithful. That’s because some of the most iconic machines to come […]
Overland Cruiser (Part 2): Tooling Up and Tearing Down
Our project vehicle—a 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser named “Beast”—had 250,000-miles on the original engine. There were signs of a head gasket leak, a known issue with these engines at high […]
Overland Cruiser: Building and Outfitting for Adventure Travel
There’s travel, there’s adventure travel, and then there’s overlanding. Originally used to mean horseback cattle drives in the Australian outback, the term “overlanding” now refers to self-sufficient, vehicle-dependent adventure travel […]
Out With the Bad Air, in with the Good—Helping a Jeep XJ Cherokee Breathe Better
There’s a persistent narrative out there that bolt-on performance parts for the Jeep 4.0L engine just don’t work. That’s not true, you just have to manage your expectations. The problem […]