To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring you some of the stories that exemplify the core of what HOT ROD is and reflect the brand's influence on America's car ...

"Racing improves the breed," the old adage goes. But is change always for the good? That's what we set out to discover in this month's dyno thrash. In one corner, we had Dart's veteran Pro 1 aluminum ...

In the past installments of Project X-Rated, we worked on our chassis and did an overview of the transmission buildup. Although our racecar is rolling around the shop, it still needs some more work to ...

Part I in the October 2002 issue began to unravel the mystery of deciphering airflow numbers that are derived from flow bench testing. We addressed the question, "Why test for airflow?" and detailed ...

I worked as a machinist in an automotive machine shop in the early 1980s before my career took me into the aerospace sector. The shop's high volume of mundane engine rebuilds and turning brake drums ...