How Do You Build A Muscle Car Engine?
Some people will tell you that modern muscle-car performance is about balancing outright horsepower with a smooth torque curve, good fuel economy and technological sophistication. Real muscle-heads know the truth: musclecars are about all huge cubic inches, running ridiculous horsepower on the street, shredding tires and generally enraging the neighbors every Saturday morning with your very short and thunderous exhaust system. Fortunately, modern technology and quality engineering allows throwbacks like us to re-live those wild days and long nights of the musclecar heyday while enjoying all the reliability and versatility of more plebeian powerplants. Start with an aftermarket engine block. Not so long ago, anything over 460 cubic inches was considered race-only territory. That was before companies like Dart, Merlin, Bowtie and Ford Motorsport started casting specialty engine blocks designed from the outset with massive displacement in mind. These blocks are not only far stronger than
