The Ford 427 SOHC arrived as a weapon, not a commuter engine, built to win races and unsettle rivals who thought they had big-block dominance locked up. It shared displacement with other FE V8s, but ...

Detroit’s horsepower wars did not just create quick cars, they created engines that stretched factory displacement to the edge of practicality. As automakers chased bragging rights in the 1960s and ...

The U.S. is known as the land of excess for many reasons. Take the automotive landscape, for example. You have big SUVs and even bigger engines. However, there was a time when engines in American cars ...