Confound it the befuddling nature of vintage headlight switches. In classic cars, you pull the knob straight out and you get parking lamps at the first detent, then, headlights with […]

Who could resist the classic Holley 4150 double pumper carburetor with mechanical secondaries and a throaty voice—an American classic for generations of street performance weekend drag racing enthusiasts? Not many […]

Talk about turning lemons into lemonade? Ford knows this one firsthand and it has a long history of turning misfortune into triumph. Ford’s very beginnings were marked with failure—then, with […]

As America entered late 1950s, it became apparent there was consumer demand for smaller economical automobiles. With the Falcon and Comet in 1960 came a family of small lightweight six […]

Ford Performance Parts is out to change your perception of affordable high-performance crate engines with a lineup of world class crate motors that deliver the same Ford tested tough durability […]

For as long as there have been internal combustion engines, there have been cooling systems—either air or water cooled. (Air cooled engines aren’t mainstream unless you own a Corvair, VW, […]

Ford’s venerable Modular engines have been a Ford mainstay for three decades. The 4.6L “Mod’ Motor” SOHC V8 first appeared in the 1991 Lincoln Town Car and quickly made its […]

Last month, we introduced you to the 331ci “Street Stealth” built by MCE Engines. The late Marvin McAfee of MCE Engines in Los Angeles was the architect and builder for […]

Looking for good reliable streetable horsepower and torque? These days, 400 horsepower and 400 lbs.-ft. of torque sounds tame when you consider the 600 to 800+ horsepower behemoths among us. […]

We’ve all been there at one time or another—tightening a fastener to specifications, only the specified torque is never reached. That unsettling feeling of a stripped thread. For most of […]