For most American performance cars, the early 1970s marked the beginning of a difficult period. Rising insurance costs, ...
A classic Pontiac Trans Am gets transformed into a brutally fast street machine with an LSA supercharged engine making around ...
Due to stricter government regulations, the era of unrestrained factory-built performance was coming to an end in 1971. However, GM's excitement division answered with the largest displacement engine ...
The Trans Am became the king of the Firebird castle in 1979 when it turned 10, with over 117K units shipped in just one year. Its yearly performance slightly declined in the next years, dropping to 31 ...
At the beginning of the 1970s, few things were hotter than the American muscle car. These smaller vehicles packed a ton of power and looked like the coolest things on the road. From the Ford Mustang ...
Jody Only is an author and photographer. Within the last five years in the auto industry, she has had bylines with TopSpeed, HotCars, LSXmag, Engine Labs, Chevy HardCore, and Street Muscle. She is a ...
Whether it's reworking the ignition curve on a 400ci Ram Air III or cutting down the EGR tube on an LS1 displacing 346 ci, Pontiac owners love to tweak their machines to extract additional power. In ...
For many people, hot rodding is their hobby. It serves as a reason to get in the garage to tinker, build, or detail their car, to get them away from work and daily pressures. Better yet, of course, is ...
The Chevy Camaro debuted in September of 1966 in response to the stellar success of the Ford Mustang. Not wanting to be left out of the pony car game, Pontiac demanded and got the Firebird five months ...