Tracing the history-and milestones-of what just might be the most significant V-8 engine ever designed. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring you some of the ...

Notes: This is the first small-block cylinder head. It is the only head that was available in the '55 model year. The first high-performance head was not offered until 1956. This cylinder head has ...

You can. Using a Dart Iron Eagle block with a raised cam and deck height (make sure to read the sidebar), we built a 450ci small-block by combining a 4.165-inch bore with a 4.125-inch stroke. A normal ...

I worked as a machinist in an automotive machine shop in the early 1980s before my career took me into the aerospace sector.