For a substantial number of engines made over the course of automobile history, most of them bear the name of the car company that produced them, like Chevrolet or Ford. After all, it makes it easy to ...

In the late 1950s, Chrysler decided to cease production on its FirePower V8 engines. These were massive, hemispherical engines that would be revived in the mid-1960s and be rebranded to what we now ...

The Mopar 440 saw its way into several cars in the late 1960s, as did its high-performance variants, like the 440 Magnum, 440 TNT, 440 Super Commando, and the most powerful of the bunch, the 440 Six ...

The Mopar 440-cubic-inch V8 belongs to Chrysler's RB engine line with roots traced back to the original 383-cubic-inch big block, which came out in 1959. However, the RB lineage traces back to the ...

One of last year's most successful buildups in Car Craft's big-block engineseries was the Mopar 440. Featured in "Mo-Power: 535hp 440" (Nov. '01), the 0.060-over, 10.23:1 mill originally churned out ...

Although the early Eighties don't exactly seem to be the right time to praise the powers of mega-inch V8s, even this present period of the 4-cylinder crawl has a place for the pluses of a big motor.