Dodge's Hemi engines are known to be performance tyrants. Why though? Here's a look at what makes them killers.

Now that number sounds like a lot (and it is), but it doesn't even touch some of the most savage drag racing engines: the Top-Fuel powerplants, running on exotic fuel like 90% nitromethane, which ...

Chrysler's line of HEMI engines started in the 1950s and created a long-lasting legacy. ... That made it different from the drag strip-oriented race version of the 426, ...

We track Chrysler’s Hemi engine sizes and the Hemi’s dominance through seven decades, ... Chrysler protested and sat out the 1965 season to concentrate on drag racing. The 426ci Street Hemi.

Nick Arias Jr. was a pioneer in engine building, and when the Chrysler Hemi became dominant in NHRA drag racing, the engineer/engine builder got to work on some hemi-head designs of his own ...

In a move sure to upset both the Hemi and diesel purists, Halvorson created a diesel Hemi race engine. 0:00 / 0:00 As the Hot Rod blog post details, the engine’s block is pretty much a standard ...

Read about the Drag Racing's Wheelie Trucks and the history of the Little Red Wagon. More, only on truckinweb.com, the official website of Truckin' Magazine ...

Two versions of this 426 race engine were built – one called the “Circuit” or “Track” engine and the other the “Acceleration” or “Drag” engine. The Gen II 426 Race HEMI was first ...

His drag-racing engines were so powerful and so durable that racers started calling him the Old ... and Pink built both 427 Ford and 426 Chrysler Hemi customer engines for legions of Top Fuel and ...

Mopar Unveils 800HP Viper V10 for Drag Racing, Plus New Crate Engines and Performance Parts at SEMA. If you think the stock Viper is a brutal machine, ... a 590HP version of the Gen III 426 Hemi V8.

Tom Hoover, whose work at Chrysler included development of the legendary Max Wedge and 426 Hemi V-8 engines, the 1970 Plymouth AAR ’Cuda, and the 1978 Dodge Li’l Red Express truck, has died.

But this is a serious drag racing engine, built for serious applications only – not daily-driving. And in that function, a Proline is among the best: here's what drivers have to say. Satisfied ...