Bigger is better, baby, and the hot rodder's battle cry is nowhere more in vogue than with the part-time engine-builder hooked on big-lift cams. But there's much more to the science of lobe crafting ...

If you read a lot of magazines and listen to enough bench racing, you start to think that everyone has 540-inch big-blocks or twin-turbo LS engines under their hoods. Why? Because big horsepower is ...

Perception is reality. Read enough online stories, and you would think every hot rod out there is rockin' a 700-hp high-end engine under the hood. The truth is that most cars are putting out anywhere ...