The all-new Ford Mustang Dark Horse was the first new Mustang performance series in 21 years, and it looked sinister. This ...

It's the company's second hydrogen hot rod, following a 1948 Chevrolet pickup it designed with a 6.2-liter GM V8. GENERAL MOTORS TO HELP BUILD HYDROGEN-POWERED JETS Freebird is powered by hydrogen.

The hopped-up 1930 Ford Model A he drives is a “gow job,” a hot rod from before the term “hot rod” was coined: a car built almost exclusively with 1930s mechanical components, yet capable ...

In PART I, we detailed the construction of a long-rod, high-compression Ford 351W V-8. Since this was a street-only engine, we purposely set our engineering goals very high.

You may think this is impossible, but it's possible to get small-block Ford connecting rods mixed up. At first glance, 221, 260, 289, and 302 connecting rods look the same.

At this point many rods were reconstruct-ed into oblivion, but Couch couldn't bear to cut up his coupe to install an overhead-valve V8. It sat in the barn while he spent the next 40 years taking ...

Several variations of the assembled short- and long-blocks are offered, including a $1,895 version built using a new block, a new Ford crankshaft, new Ford connecting rods, new hypereutectic ...

Stock Ford connecting rods get checked for cracks — then polished and balanced for longer life and a few more revs. Valve train components come from Holman-Moody or Crane — lighter pushrods, ...