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!
434-cube LS Next – Mill of the Month
The vast majority of big-power LS engines rely on some form of artificial aspiration to make grunt, so it’s easy to forget that these mills can be pretty handy in all-motor trim
1600hp blown 392ci Chrysler Hemi – Mill of the month
Sydney’s Joe Kurtovic plonks a stonking blown 1958 Hemi into his gorgeous ’34 Ford coupe
418ci small-block Chrysler – Mill Of The Month
It’s not unusual for gearheads to become obsessed by a model of car, or even a particular part. This longing could be for an HT Monaro or maybe a Trans Am front to fit to your panel van, but in Andrew ‘Macka’ McDonald’s case, it was for a pair of, er, cylinder heads.
Warspeed 445ci LS Next engine – Mill of the Month
What do you do when your 8/71-blown, LS-powered VK Commodore street car gets too much unwanted attention?
427-cube Cleveland – Mill of the Month
Tony De Marco’s 427ci Cleveland donk is destined for his freshly restored, Howard Astill-build XC Cobra
750hp LSX454 – Mill of the Month
Gary McRae takes one of the Holy Grail LS crate engines and gives it a solid shake up
Howard Bell’s 564ci aluminium big-block Chev – Mill of the Month
Howard Bell’s monstrous all-aluminium, fuel-injected Keith Black big-block Chev engine gets even more grunt!
Supercharged 355-cube Holden V8 – Mill of the Month
If absolutely everyone was out to LS the world, the world would be a boring place
424ci small-block Chev mill by Horsepower Engineering
Turbocharged LS donks are not everyone’s cup of tea
427-cube twin-turbo Windsor – Mill of the Month
Here’s a new story to file under: ‘Builds That Got Out Of Hand’
460ci small-block Ford engine – Mill of the Month
When a naturally aspirated engine is making north of 2hp per cubic inch on pump fuel, you know it’s impressive
Arias-headed 365ci LS engine
This 480hp, Arias-headed LS was built by Kustom Bitz in Croydon, Victoria
Nissan’s RB engines explained – video
The guys from Haltech take us through all the juicy tech in Nissan’s RB engine
800hp 356ci GM NASCAR engine
Electronic fuel injection and careful tuning sees this NASCAR engine make 100hp more than standard
Ford’s first new pushrod V8 in over 20 years
Ford ditches the dual overhead cam V8 for its Super Duty range of F trucks!
BG Engines-built blown 408ci LS – Mill Of The Month
BG Engines is well known for pushing the limits of not only horsepower but also innovation, and the business’s latest supercharged 408ci LS is another in a killer line-up of serious horsepower builds.
Blown Ford Modular motor – Mill Of The Month
WHILE there’s no shortage of turbo and blown LS combinations getting built to punch out four-figure horsepower numbers, it’s not too often that we see a Ford Modular motor built to the same level
Warspeed Turbo LS – Mill of the Month
The latest engine to come off the Warspeed Industries workbench is this extremely handsome single-turbo LS
1200hp twin-turbo small-block Chev dyno – Video
Travis Fink’s twin-turbo 400ci small-block makes 1200hp on the engine dyno
Twin-turbo 434ci Dart Windsor – Mill of the Month
Danko Knezevic from Adicted Performance in Hallam, Victoria, spends his days building highhorsepower street, strip and burnout engines for all of his customers to play with.