Except for changes in engines and techniques, this is the same story that HOT ROD has been publishing for 75 years. This story never gets old because it's constantly evolving and improving the process ...

When we left Project Groundhog at the end ofPART 1, we had just finished assembling the short-block. To briefly sum up the scope of the build, we started with a down-in-the-dirt (literally) Gen III ...

We sent Recon a worn-out 396 big-block motor and asked what they thought they could do with it. The company's performance guru, Joe Giove, thought it would be cool to build a serious ground-pounder in ...