In January 2024, John Hennessey dropped the mic on the Mopar (and muscle car) society with a monster of a news: the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170, the ultimate ChryCo speed machine, was to get meaner ...

Despite contemporary thinking, not all engine builds are mega-inch, mega-buck projects that, in reality, have very limited ...

There’s a lot of existential power in “just because”—the reflexive reply to an impulsive act that seeks neither validation nor approval. When we’re children, “just because” is the answer to why we ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...