When it comes to hot rods, bench racing - never seems to stray very i far from engines. Power is where hot rodding will always be. When it comes right down to it, the only way to learn how to build ...

Let's face it. Pretty much anybody who knows a torque wrench from a Torx socket can put together a small-block V-8 making 300 ponies. That formula has been around for, probably, half a century. But ...

Magnesium has found use in the broader automotive industry since the 1920s for a variety of applications, ranging from chassis to powertrain construction. Many vehicles utilize magnesium and its ...

For many GMHTP readers, the object of desire is none other than a high-power LS V-8 to shove under the hood of his or her GM muscle machine. But until now, many budgets have only allowed the likes of ...

This technology underlies an early success for Advanced Magnesium Technologies in the US car industry. The USCAR coalition of the big-three US carmakers, Daimler Chrysler, Ford, General Motors and the ...

As any dedicated Bow-Tie fan knows, the ZL1 engine was a special, all-aluminum version of the Rat motor. That means the block and cylinder heads. In its day, a few were slipped into production ...