Cheap horsepower has become harder to find, but the junkyard still offers an alternative to spending five figures on a crate engine. The catch is that not every inexpensive V8 is actually a bargain.

So, you want big horsepower, and you want it on the cheap. Amazingly, the exact recipe to achieve this goal hasn’t truly changed for decades. Step one is to find a 5.3-liter Chevy truck engine from a ...

Turbos and superchargers have made extra power almost easy to come by. Thanks to them, even tiny four-cylinders can make the type of numbers that used to be reserved for big-displacement engines. That ...

Daud Gonzalez is a lifelong car enthusiast and automotive writer with a specialty in modified and race-ready rides. He spends most of his time modifying his cars and ruining them in the process. He is ...