Former NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon went to the Bowling Green Assembly Plant in Kentucky to help build the engine of his ...
It all began in 1965 ... well, 1961. At that time, Chevrolet called it the Z-11. Some people called it the "Mystery Engine," and later they called it the offshoot that produced the 348 "truck" engine.
It seems that lately everybody thinks we should all be satisfied to make 400 hp on 92 octane with a Chevy 350. That's great if you think 400 ponies is a lot of power. But the pace of development in ...
Over the last few decades, one of the most important basic restoration references we attempted to compile and create was how to correctly refurbish, re-plate and restore all or most of the small, ...
This American power unit has a track-record unlike any other modern V-8 engine.
The LT7 makes 1,064 horsepower and 828 pound-feet of torque in the standard ZR1, but the ZR1X adds a hybrid system contributing 186 hp and 145 lb-ft, for a total of 1,250 hp and 973 lb-ft. The ...
Some may know Jeff Gordon as the NASCAR legend who, as a young driver, battled the late Dale Earnhardt Sr. for championships in the ’90s. While his racing credentials are unquestionable, could he ...
When Goldilocks got a hankering to break into a house owned by bears, she didn't realize her name would forever be defined as "just right." Something in the "Goldilocks zone" means that it occupies a ...
Let's take a few seconds here to think. If you played baseball, would you show up to a game without a set of cleats? If you went to the lake, would you forget the boat? No, of course not. Why, then, ...
The Chevrolet Chevelle is an iconic name in American muscle history. Throughout its years of production, many different variants were available with various engines and packages, including both ...
Q: Greg, you’ve mentioned the Mystery 427 Chevy engine in previous columns and I’m still confused. What really was the Mystery 427, and was it the same as the Z-11 that the drag racers ran? Is this ...