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Hughes Engines Tech Center: Giddy For Girdles

Kent Will

May 14, 2020

The inside of a running engine is an incomprehensibly chaotic and violet place. If you could lay inside an oil pan and look up at a built 440 big block spinning 6,000 RPM, what might ...

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Can You Hemi Now? Building A Late Model Hemi

Jefferson Bryant

June 23, 2016

Just uttering the word “Hemi” conjures the feeling of growling exhaust, the smell of hi-test gasoline, and classic Mopar iron hanging the wheels through the 60-foot mark. Every American knows what a Hemi is, whether ...

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Gallery: Box Stock Chrysler 383 Restoration, Long Block Build & ...

Mike Wilkins

May 20, 2015

A couple of weeks ago, we brought you Part 1 of our original 1971 Plymouth Road Runner’s 383 B-block. As many on our Facebook page noted that “there ain’t anything performance about good old 1100 ...

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Gallery: Box Stock Chrysler 383 Restoration, Short Block Build

Mike Wilkins

May 11, 2015

Possibly one of Mopar’s most common big block engines was the ‘B’ series wedge engine. During the heyday years of Chrysler’s muscle cars, the 383 became the defacto performance engine for the decade, and was ...

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Brazen – '69 Dodge Charger

Gallery: Wicked Wedge of The South 535ci Stroker Top End ...

Kevin Shaw

April 20, 2015

To be fair, calling our stump-pulling torque-monster of a 535 cubic inch 440 Wedge a “junkyard build” would be partially, if not completely, an outright lie. Although we did fish our low mileage, HP-casting 440 ...

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Brazen – '69 Dodge Charger

Gallery: Wicked Wedge of The South 535ci Stroker Bottom End ...

Kevin Shaw

March 10, 2015

Horsepower versus torque. It’s a battle as old as Ford versus Chevy (because factoring Mopar into the argument isn’t even a question). When it came time to outline what our fateful project car – the ...

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Hughes Engines Tech Center: Giddy For Girdles

Can You Hemi Now? Building A Late Model Hemi

Gallery: Box Stock Chrysler 383 Restoration, Long Block Build & ...

Gallery: Box Stock Chrysler 383 Restoration, Short Block Build

Gallery: Wicked Wedge of The South 535ci Stroker Top End ...

Gallery: Wicked Wedge of The South 535ci Stroker Bottom End ...