Hot Rod Magazine - June 2020

In this issue

Murray Pfaff’s Dazzling Imperial Speedster.

Build a 460 Ford Torque Monster.

800HP 6.4L Hemi! No Boost, No Nitrous...

Take Five: John Hotchkis

THE PERFORMANCE SUSPENSION PIONEER DISCUSSES HIS ROOTS IN DESIGN, RACING, AND THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF THE PERFORMANCE AFTERMARKET

9 mins

ONE OF A KIND

BRETT HANKINS OWNS THIS HAND-BUILT ALUMINUM-BODY WILLYS

3 mins

TEN YEARS AFTER

Murray Pfaff’s Genre-Defying Imperial Speedster Continues to Drop Jaws and Defy Convention

6 mins

ALPHA OMEGA

HOLLEY’S LATEST PROJECT LEADS THE PACK FOR EFI PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

3 mins

Build a 501-Inch Ford Big-Block Torque Monster

In the five decades since Ford’s “Lima” series V8 first debuted with 460 cubic inches under the hood of the 1969 Lincoln Continental Mark III, the mighty canted-valve big-block has earned a solid reputation for durability and ease of modification. Though factory high-performance development maxed out in 1971 with the 370hp 429 CJ-R, you don’t need a rare muscle car core engine to get plenty of power.

6 mins

The Homeless Hemi, Part 1

WE ADOPT A MOPAR IN NEED AND FEED IT SOME SPEED

5 mins

Build an 800hp 6.4L Hemi, No Boost, No Nitrous

Byron Walker at Modern Muscle Xtreme (MMX) built a 14.0:1 compression, 7,000-rpm, 454-inch Gen III Hemi screamer that makes 800 hp.

4 mins

Shop Talk: How to Check Piston to Valve Clearance

In all but the most mild engine builds, taking extra time to check piston-to-valve clearance is good insurance. In any four-cycle gasoline engine, there is one point in the combustion event where the piston and valves can be very close to each other—at top dead center (TDC) of the exhaust stroke.

2 mins

How Do I Prevent Low-Speed Overheating on a 500HP, GM LS3-Powered Datsun 240Z on 110-Degree Summer Days?

Mike Mileski from Tucson, Arizona Asks…

9 mins

Automotive Artifacts

I’m going to need everyone to conform to my morals when it comes to automotive artifacts, ok? This rant is a followup to my last column in which I described a road trip I recently executed upon old Route 66. Dozens of glorious ruins of America’s roadside history were spotted, but one of them hit me extra hard. It was just an old sign. In Carthage, Missouri, lies a shambled building with the hand-painted name G&E Tire Co. ghosted through the bricks, and at the building’s corner at Oak Street and McGregor Boulevard there’s a fascinating protuberance: a simple brown, metal fabrication with remnants of neon tubes and lettering that says De Soto Plymouth.

2 mins

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