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Race engine building stories and secrets | A deep conversation with Ed Smith

Dive into a deep conversation with Ed Smith as he shares race engine building stories, hard-earned secrets, and lessons from years of high-performance work. This video explores the mindset, precision, ...
Hot Rod

The Short-Block Build: We Punch the Summit Racing SPC Block Out to 427 CI

Could the small-block Chevy be the most popular engine-build that HOT ROD has covered over its 77-year history? We don’t have a running tally, but in our expert guesstimate, that is probably true. So ...
Hot Rod

Turning Tricks: Adding a Trick Flow Small-Block Chevy Top-End to Our Summit Racing 427 Stroker

We’re moving right along with our Summit Racing 427-ci small-block Chevy build. We started with a bare SPC engine block, and we’re building it from the bottom up. We left off last time with an ...
Autoweek

Ed Pink, The Old Master and Engine Builder Extraordinaire, Has Died

Ed Pink, known throughout racing as The Old Master, whose engines powered racers from Tony Stewart, Don Prudhomme, Ed “The Ace” McCulloch, Kasey Kahne, and Eddie Cheever to victories in Indianapolis, ...
autoevolution

5 Iconic Road Cars Powered by Race-Bred Engines

While most high-performance rides that we can legally drive on public roads are powered by beefed-up versions of normal, day-to-day engines, the following five left the factory with motors built for ...