Weight kills performance and shaving a few pounds is akin to making more power. Keeping this in mind, the builder opted for an aluminum BMP Mitchell block. The bores were massaged out and a 4.25-inch ...

A 1969 Dodge Dart Swinger 340 four-speed and a 1970 Challenger with meaty rear tires finally leave their Oregon barn and head ...

We'd all love to install a high-horsepower engine in our Mopar, and many of us do modify our engines with aftermarket parts in the quest for more power. In fact, there's never been a better time to be ...

Arguably one of the most iconic pieces of American muscle, this Dodge could outrun just about everything on the road.

This oversized ’70s cruiser carried the final big-block V8 in a production car, yet today it sells for less than the price of ...

The Mopar family of vehicles encompasses everything from four-cylinder-powered Jeeps to some of the muscle car era's most potent pavement eaters. Mopar is a portmanteau of the words "motor" and "parts ...

The Chrysler Corporation manufactured the last of its big block engines, the B-coded 400-cubic-inch V8, in the summer of 1978. The 400's disappearance ended a long run of Chrysler B-code engines that ...

Straight off the bat, it's the engine sizes. The Mopar 383 V8 displaces 383 cubic inches (6.3 liters), sitting between the 340 (5.6 liters) and 440 (7.2 liters). The 340, 383, and 440 all are part of ...

Indy Cylinder Heads 500ci Big-Block Mopar Dyno Test Indy Cylinder Heads built this 500ci all-aluminum big-block wedge for PHRs Project Valiant and in this dyno test it made 657hp at 6,100 rpm and ...

In 1969, Dodge didn’t need a new pony car to prove its point. It had the Dart GTS, a compact body with a big-block heart, strutting through cruise nights like a street-corner prizefighter. The Mustang ...

America is the land of the free and of V8s. While turbocharging is great and all, most of us dream of a large, hunking V8 that sounds glorious, leaves unending skid marks, and offers the thrust of a ...