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!
Why is the Ford Barra motor so good?
Why Ford’s six-cylinder Barra motor has the potential for huge horsepower
Blown 355ci Holden V8 – Mill Of The Month
Despite the fact that this engine was never built to race, it makes pretty good power with 651 horses on tap
427-cube blown LS next – Mill Of The Month
Troy Worsley at Warspeed in NSW has just put the finishing touches on this masterpiece for a customer’s VK, and it’s not your garden-variety cam-and-heads type of deal.
Powerhouse Engines 427ci big-block Chev with eight-throttle EFI
427ci big-block Chev with EFI and individual throttle bodies makes over 700hp
Guide to LS engine swaps
How to fit an LS engine into just about anything
427ci twin-turbo Windsor engine
The Dandy Engines XW is back on track, and owner Frank Marchese has resumed his pursuit of a six-second pass at 200mph.
LS engine variants part two – Generation IV
In part two of our LS family tree, we look at the Gen IV-series starting with the LS2
Blown 398-cube LS Next Dart block
We take a closer look at the blown 398ci LS-based mill from BG Engines in NSW
Castle Hill Performance’s 460ci big-block Chev – Mill of the Month
We take a close look at Castle Hill Performance’s big-block Chevy mill
LS engine variants part one – Generation III
After almost 20 years in production, there are dozens of LS engine variants, so here is he skinny on the LS family tree
V12 LS goes to a custom block – video
The guys behind the Aussie-made V12 LS1 have now created their own custom engine block
Dandy engines-built Ford 380ci Cleveland – Mill of the Month
Robert Kardum is expecting around 700hp on the dyno from his 380-cube Clevo, built by Frank Marchese at Dandy Engines in Victoria
3500 horsepower LS motor in the build – Henson Racing Engines
We check out some killer builds at Henson Racing Engines, including an LS combo aiming to make 3500hp at up to 90psi
Project VL – forged bottom end RB30 assembly – Episode Five
In this episode of Project VL we’re back at Powerhouse Engines assembling Aiden’s RB30 engine
Project VL – big boost RB30 engine build – Episode Four
In this episode of Project VL it’s full steam ahead on Aiden’s RB30 engine build at Powerhouse Engines
Kranky’s 515ci big-block Chev makes monster grunt on engine dyno – video
Damo from BG Engines in North Richmond has been playing around with the motor out of Rod Waters’s KRANKY HQ Holden on the engine dyno
LS conversion kit for a first-gen Holden Commodore – part two
The finishing touches to the Castlemaine Rod Shop/Waddington Street Rods supercharged LS-powered VL Commodore build
LS conversion kit for a first-gen Holden Commodore – part one
Castlemaine Rod Shop builds a supercharged Holden VL to showcase its revamped LS-into-early-Commodore conversion kit
Engine ID guide – Ford, Holden, Chrysler & Chevrolet
An easy guide to spotting classic street machine engines
710hp Holden 383 stroker V8 with 367-cube combo
James Melmoth from Melway Competition Engines (MCE) puts together some of the toughest street ’n’ strip Holden V8s around