Whenever there is a huge drag racing event with lots of cool vehicles, it is sometimes easy to miss the most enticing runs among the crowd of low-key competitors. But that probably won’t happen on an ...

There is a war out there in LS land, and it’s being waged between the nitrous and turbo camps. If you follow the usual build pattern of most LS owners, the first modification is a camshaft and ...

A pretty strong case can be made for Chevy's modern machinery. While we all look back fondly on the musclecars of yesteryear, the reality is that nostalgia has altered our perception somewhat. As ...

Want your ride featured on HOT ROD?Click hereto find out how! Ever had a bad day? No, like a really bad day—like a "hit by someone who ran a red light while in your prized 2001 Firebird Trans Am with ...

Even if you’ve witnessed nitrous backfire moments in person, nothing can prepare you for the shock and the pain of such a moment. People outside the aficionado land tend to ignore the bang in ...

There is nothing like a big nitrous backfire to destroy a perfectly good test motor. This happened after the Internet nitrous guys insisted we subject an LS motor to the same treatment given our ...

Turbos and superchargers have made extra power almost easy to come by. Thanks to them, even tiny four-cylinders can make the type of numbers that used to be reserved for big-displacement engines. That ...