Not to sound like a parody of Jerry Seinfeld here, but what's the deal with all these identical-displacement V8s from different manufacturers? We've talked about the Ford 427 vs. the Chevy 427 before, ...

In the late 1950s, Chrysler decided to cease production on its FirePower V8 engines. These were massive, hemispherical engines that would be revived in the mid-1960s and be rebranded to what we now ...

Straight off the bat, it's the engine sizes. The Mopar 383 V8 displaces 383 cubic inches (6.3 liters), sitting between the 340 (5.6 liters) and 440 (7.2 liters). The 340, 383, and 440 all are part of ...

Last month we built a mild street engine using a factory Chrysler 383 block, crankshaft, rods, and cylinder heads combined with some aftermarket goodies from Comp Cams and Summit Racing Equipment, and ...

Visiting automotive museums, scrutinizing thick coffee table books about muscle cars, and watching movies revolving around car culture could make you think that every other car in the '60s had a 426 ...

If you have been contemplating whether or not to attend the 2011 Chryslers at Carlisle event, let us help you make up your mind. Once again, we have teamed up with Muscle Motors in Lansing, Michigan, ...

The Mopar family of vehicles encompasses everything from four-cylinder-powered Jeeps to some of the muscle car era's most potent pavement eaters. Mopar is a portmanteau of the words "motor" and "parts ...

The second generation of the Plymouth Barracuda ‘pony’ car hit the market in 1966 as a 1967 model and went into retirement at the end of the 1969 production year. Three short years, overlapping ...

Chrysler's Dodge and Plymouth often led the charge during the original muscle car era thanks to not just the timeless design of their models but the terrific high-performance engines hidden under ...

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is making Mopar Crate Hemi engine kits available as a factory-backed option for Mopar vehicles from 1975 and earlier. The automaker used the 2016 SEMA Show to reveal new ...