During the American muscle era, Detroit engines powered the most iconic and powerful cars on the road. Here are some of the ...

HOT ROD was there to welcome Chrysler's big-block V-8 engine—a staple of the muscle-car revolution—with this deep dive into the fantastic ’58 Plymouth Fury.

Mopar would add a four-barrel version for trucks. What the 360 did take from the 340 was its intake port heads, but used a smaller intake valve. Just because this was a larger engine doesn't mean ...

Over the following years, Mopar increased those Magnum numbers even more to 390 hp and 490 lb-ft of torque. The 440 was a ...

Forget about big-block V8 engines, small-block-powered muscle cars are also fun at the drag strip. This races proves just ...

AMC dropped the 401 and four-barrel 360 after 1978, leaving the 258 six and two-barrel 360 as the only available engines — a state of affairs that continued until 1987 when Chrysler acquired ...

279 PS, 461 Nm from an 850-cfm four-barrel carburetor, a special cam, and the highest compression ratio of all Chrysler engines that year ... in big-block numbers: 383, 440, and 426 cubic inches ...

Already Chrysler’s engineering department and laboratories are working 85% of their time on defense, developing a 2,000 h.p. airplane engine ... been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they ...

In a none-too-shocking announcement, Chrysler announced plans to invest $179 million to convert its engine plant in Dundee, MI, from building the so-called World Engine to Fiat's 1.4-liter Fully ...

the other a four-barrel, and making 250 and 285 horsepower respectively. The heavy hitter in the Firebird engine lineup was a 325-horsepower 400 cube V8 shared with the GTO. The six-cylinder ...

Also, the Charger went back to being a two-door (there is a four ... Mopar muscle, which were the only cars eligible for the 426 Street Hemi engine option. "Six-Pack" refers to the triple two ...

The Corvette was rolling in high gear by 1957, with the fuel-injected 283 V-8, a 4-speed gearbox ... with a 3 x 2-barrel carburetion setup and aluminum heads. View Photos This engine, Duntov ...