Modified engines are the lifeblood of our sport and we love to showcase the most powerful, beautiful and inventive examples each year.
While V8s are a major focus, we cover almost anything of interest, including vintage engines such as the Ford flathead, late-model Japanese sixes and even Mazda rotary engines!

Video: Supermang gets a 4.2-litre V6 stroker!
In this episode of Carnage, Scotty installs a new stroker V6 into our VN Berlina

ProFlo Performance Harrop-blown, 427-cube LS
This 1225hp, 7.0L LS is destined for a customer’s HJ Holden show car, which will become a streeter and then possibly raced later on

Ford 427-cube SOHC ‘Cammer’ V8
The 427ci SOHC Ford V8 proved that the Yanks could go high-tech when they wanted to

Buyer’s guide: Late-model crate engines
Here’s the hottest late-model crate motors available right now – including some of the wildest bent-eights Detroit has ever offered!

Gen V: GM’s LT engine family
In the face of electric vehicles and overhead-cam Fords, General Motors’ pushrod small-block is now in its fifth generation. Here is our look at these latest-gen mills

BK Race Engines-built 393ci Cleveland V8
BK Race Engines crafted this retro-look 393ci Cleveland with concours-style details for a customer’s XY Falcon

Tech: Exploring the potential of force-fed Godzilla V8 conversions
We look at the viability and power potential of dropping Ford’s modern, 7.3L Godzilla small-block into a street machine

BK Race Engines-built 443ci Clevor combo
Destined for a customer’s XB GS hardtop, this 443-cube combo replaces the previous 630hp Clevo that Bill Kaglatzis also built, 20 years ago

Inside the C8 ZR1 Corvette’s 1064hp, quad-cam, twin-turbo LT7 V8
Delving into America’s most powerful production engine – GM’s new, 1064hp, twin-turbo LT7

Warspeed 427ci LS built for Finke Desert Race torture
Troy Worsley built this LS-based combo for a client’s Trophy Truck to handle the extremes of off-road desert racing

ProFlo Performance-built 400ci twin-turbo Holden V8 mill
Destined for the SIKJIM LH Torana, this 400ci twin-turbo Torque-Power Little Paw combo by ProFlo is expected to make over 2000hp

BK Race Engines 403ci twin-turbo small-block Ford
Australia’s quickest small-block Ford-powered car is set to get even quicker thanks to BK Race Engines

Ford Australia’s forgotten Barra V8
We take a look at the forgotten Ford Barra 220 V8, the estranged cousin of the legendary six-cylinder

VT Commodore LS1-to-LS3 engine swap
Dropping an LS3 into an LS1 Commodore isn’t as easy as it sounds

Warspeed 1520cc Toyota 5K combo
Warspeed’s Troy Worsley has rebuilt his KE38 Corolla wagon mill into a 1520cc monster

Torque-Power Big Paw-blocked Holden 488ci V8
Despite having massive cubes for a small-block engine, this Big Paw block is a torquey, street-friendly mill

ProFlo Performance-built Nissan CA18 mill
Overshadowed by the Nissan SR20 turbo, the CA18 is a turbocharged gem more resembling the straight-six RB25. ProFlo Performance built this ripper little combo for a customer’s Datsun 1200 with the goal of reaching 500rwhp

Grooty’s Race & Resto-built BMW M20B25 six combo
Danno ‘Grooty’ Groot built this BMW hot six combo for his partner’s ’85 E30 race car

Cam Waters’s XB Falcon coupe is powered by screaming, Supercars-bred 369ci Windsor
Here’s what happens when a professional Supercars racer commissions an ex-Supercars and Nascar engineer to build a ball-tearing mill for his street machine

ProFlo Performance-built 403-cube blown LS combo
This combo out of ProFlo Performance uses a cast-iron LQ9 block plus as-cast LS3 heads with stock valves and is destined for staffer Brodie Ward’s VL Commodore