Let’s imagine a builder walking past a fresh 454 crate motor at a swap meet without slowing down. Imagine he ignores the next pallet, which has the Mopar 440 sitting on it as well. Then, he stops cold ...

On paper, Cadillac’s 500 cubic inch V8 looked like a caricature of Detroit excess, a giant lump of iron tuned for quiet comfort rather than quarter-mile glory. In reality, it was a deeply engineered, ...