Car Features

Perfection is Just a Hemi Away: Barry Postupack’s ...

Chrysler was often just behind the curve when it came to bringing a new car to the market. The E-body (Challenger and Barracuda) was an example of Chrysler’s “late to the party” motif. However, the ...

Engine

Gallery: Improve Carburetor Airflow with a K&N Stubstack

Nearly everyone has heard accounts about performance increases from the various K&N Stubstack designs. If you are not familiar with the Stubstack, it is designed to slip over the carburetor air inlet, and in theory, ...

Engine

Gallery: Pick Up 14 HP with a Flowmaster ...

The internal combustion engine is nothing more than an air pump—the more air that gets into it, the more power potential that engine has. The engine can be spun harder (more rpm) to increase the ...

Features

Gallery: “Dandy Dick” Landy Knows Hurst Shifters

By 1966, the quarter-mile “stockers” had morphed into altered wheelbase extended nose beasts with nitro-burning Hemis stuffed between frame rails. The cars tended to be a little rough, and to many spectators, they looked funny. ...

Electrical

Gallery: Installing a Powermaster 95-Amp Square-Back Alternator

Mopar Connection Magazine has had several opportunities to work with the good people at Powermaster Performance, and each time, we have come away impressed with their products. Recently, Powermaster’s Todd Ryden informed us about Leon E. ...

Paint & Body

Gallery: Installing an American Muscle Chin Spoiler on ...

In our constant quest to lose our 2006 Police Package Charger’s patrol car appearance, we added a pair of American Muscle Spec-D Tuning headlamps and factory fog lights late last year. The Spec-D headlamps with the dual ...

Electrical

Gallery: Light Up The Night With A Low-Buck ...

Nighttime driving may not be something we often do with our classic Mopars, but wouldn’t it be enjoyable to have the best lighting available when low-light driving is necessary? Over the years, many vehicles have ...

Engine

Gallery: MSD Introduces the Atomic 2 EFI Fuel ...

The often-paraphrased Ralph Waldo Emerson quote states, “If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, ...

Drivetrain

Gallery: B&M Dipstick for NAG1 5-Speed Automatic

When Chrysler introduced the New Automatic Gearbox Gen 1 (aka NAG1 or WA580) five-speed transmission in the 2005 models, it left many DIYers lost when they discovered there wasn’t a dipstick for the transmission. The ...

Interviews

Gallery: Five Minutes with Boosted Motorsports’ John O’Malley

Recently, we at Mopar Connection Magazine were introduced to an entrepreneur and fabricator named John O’Malley. O’Malley is the owner of Boosted Motorsports, and he has built several supercharged and turbocharged vehicles, including numerous Mopars. ...