At the dawn of the 1980s, when performance cars were limping through an era of emissions controls and shrinking engines, some ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

Introduced at the height of the muscle car golden age and produced until the mid-1990s, the 460 was never offered by Ford in a high-performance variant. However, thanks to its bombproof construction, ...

Big cars were made for big engines. Unfortunately, by the late '70s mileage and emissions standards were dictating otherwise, forcing automakers to install anemic, downsized engines into holdover ...

Many would associate America’s most powerful vehicles of the 1980s with burly muscle and sports cars like Corvettes, Trans Ams, and turbocharged imports that were beginning to invigorate the ...

The writing was on the wall for the 351M in our F-150 from the moment we dragged it home. There were some good components, like the Edelbrock intake manifold and MSD ignition, but a bent pushrod and ...

We get a lot of old-timers in the automotive space bemoaning how pickup trucks used to be different breeds moons ago. If you're on the younger side, it might be easy to pass off that kind of rhetoric ...

A big-block Ford 460 was bored and stroked into this 502-inch track-ready mill. With a Comp solid-roller valvetrain and running on pump gas it made 650 hp and whole lot of torque.

Kaufmann Products/Advanced Engineering West has definitely been in the forefront of hopping up late-model Ford powerplants, but they also realize that for some gear heads there is just no substitute ...