TEN YEARS AFTER

Murray Pfaff’s Genre-Defying Imperial Speedster Continues to Drop Jaws and Defy Convention

Build an 800hp 6.4L Hemi, No Boost, No Nitrous

Byron Walker at Modern Muscle Xtreme (MMX) built a 14.0:1 compression, 7,000-rpm, 454-inch Gen III Hemi screamer that makes 800 hp.

Automotive Artifacts

I’m going to need everyone to conform to my morals when it comes to automotive artifacts, ok? This rant is a followup to my last column in which I described a road trip I recently executed upon old Route 66. Dozens of glorious ruins of America’s roadside history were spotted, but one of them hit me extra hard. It was just an old sign. In Carthage, Missouri, lies a shambled building with the hand-painted name G&E Tire Co. ghosted through the bricks, and at the building’s corner at Oak Street and McGregor Boulevard there’s a fascinating protuberance: a simple brown, metal fabrication with remnants of neon tubes and lettering that says De Soto Plymouth.

ALPHA OMEGA

HOLLEY’S LATEST PROJECT LEADS THE PACK FOR EFI PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Why I Want A New Corvette

By now, the first 2020 Corvettes will be reaching Chevrolet dealership showrooms and happy customers will be taking delivery of this highly anticipated, mid-engine C8 platform. I wouldn’t mind being one of those people, though there’s no way I could afford one right now.

This Ultra-Rare Essex Terraplane

Stands Out in a Crowd

TRIPPY FISHY

The Latest Masterpiece from the Super Stock Legends

Take Five With Moonshine Runners, History, and Their Cars: Looking Back at Junior Johnson

Hero is Junior Johnson. Yes!” published in his book The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby, Junior Johnson, 1931–2019, was the prototypical NASCAR hero.

THE NOVITIATE

For a First-Time Build, This Camaro Sets a High Bar

Route 66: Worth the Kicks?

Route 66 adventure is absolutely worth it

Alexander Wesley Asks… What's Available for Swapping a 5.7L Gen III Chrysler Hemi into a 1984 Chrysler M-Body?

What’s Available for Swapping

Accelerated

WE BUILD A CLASSIC 1955 CHEVY USING ALL MODERN PARTS IN JUST SEVEN DAYS!

Take Five With Kyle Tucker

Former GM Engineer and Founder of Detroit Speed Discusses Performance Aftermarket Manufacturing in the Modern Era

Jamie Johnson Asks…Do Similar Duration Cams All Perform About the Same, or Differently?

QUESTION My favorite article is “Affordable Horsepower: Building a Low-Buck Small- Block” at HotRod.com. I like it because it shows how to get cheap, usable horsepower with lots of beautiful torque.

Make 800 HP With a Boosted 5.3

We all know how well the LS engine family responds to bolt-ons.

The Blood of CHRISTINE

This 1958 Plymouth has been created as the ultimate Christine tribute

ICONICUS MAXIMUS

If you were asked to repaint the Mona Lisa, could you do it?

ON THE SCENE - The RPM Nationals

Right around the time this very magazine was formed, hopped-up flathead V8s were considered the pinnacle of speed.

Freak Alert!

3,424 HP SUPERCHARGED 24-CYLINDER PETERBILT SEMITRUCK

SPEED PARTS HALL OF FAME

HOT ROD’s objective has always been to cover what’s happening in the hot rodding world—the people, the trends, the races, the culture, the cars, the builds, and so on.

FLEX FUEL

SWITCHING FROM GASOLINE TO E85 (AND BACK) HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER

Does 'Ram Air' Work?

Popularized by Pontiac back in the 1960s, the term “Ram Air” (as used by its space cadets—aka advertising staff) for a sealed induction system that receives cooler outside ambient air instead of really hot underhood air is a misnomer—at least when applied to road vehicles traveling at legal highway speeds.

Why Does My Corvette 350 Small-Block Miss and Stall Out When the Engine Gets Hot?

C.R. Miller Asks…

Take Five With LEAH PRITCHETT

The NHRA Top Fuel Driver Tells HOT ROD How Persistence Paid Off and that You’re Never too Good to Stop Learning

LIGHTNING QUICK

THIS 600ciFASTBACK MAKES OVER 2,000 HP WITHOUT THE NEED OF BOOST OR ALCOHOL

The Numbers Game

[Here are our real-life examples: the destroyed “real” muscle car on the trailer and the new “fake Road Runner” in the foreground.

HIGH 5.998 FIVES

HOT ROD DRAG WEEK 2019 PRESENTED BY GEAR VENDORS

WHAT'S INSIDE TREMEC'S ALL-NEW SEVEN-SPEED DUAL-CLUTCH TRANSMISSION IN THE NEW SHELBY GT500 MUSTANG

Does This DCT Equal Faster Shifts, Quicker Lap Times and More Fun?

SIX ON THE FLOOR LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE

A Modern Overdrive Transmission Swap for Ford Fans

F-BODY ELEGANCE

EAT YOUR HEART OUT FERRARI! THIS ’71 CAMARO IS THE ONLY EXOTIC WE NEED