The Mopar name, Chrysler's clever blend of letters from its motor parts arm, is synonymous with powerful engines from the muscle car era. Today, Mopar continues to set the standard for high ...

Straight off the bat, it's the engine sizes. The Mopar 383 V8 displaces 383 cubic inches (6.3 liters), sitting between the 340 (5.6 liters) and 440 (7.2 liters). The 340, 383, and 440 all are part of ...

HOT ROD announced the Win Your Dream Engine Contest sponsored by Edelbrock, Comp Cams, Performance Distributors, Speed-Pro, Milodon, and ARP in June 2003. The idea was that readers would design an ...

For a substantial number of engines made over the course of automobile history, most of them bear the name of the car company that produced them, like Chevrolet or Ford. After all, it makes it easy to ...

The Mopar 440-cubic-inch V8 belongs to Chrysler's RB engine line with roots traced back to the original 383-cubic-inch big block, which came out in 1959. However, the RB lineage traces back to the ...

Chrysler unceremoniously unveiled the 360ci (5.9L) LA-series small-block V-8 in 1971 as a low-compression engine with only a two-barrel carburetor. The 4.00-inch-bore-by-3.58-inch-stroke powerplant ...

Legendary Dodge Challenger SRT Demon power plant, now available as a Mopar crate engine, pumps out 807 horsepower and 717 lb.-ft. of torque Hellcrate Redeye upgrades include larger 2.7-liter ...

To those interested in power output, nothing has the attraction of a supercharger. Forcing atmosphere into an engine makes it take a charge out of proportion to its displacement, and, with that, ...

After the V8-powered 2023 Dodge Challenger Swinger, the days of burly eight-cylinder engines in Dodge's muscle cars have probably come to an end. The company is going fully electric for the 2024 ...