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 ...

We'd all love to install a high-horsepower engine in our Mopar, and many of us do modify our engines with aftermarket parts in the quest for more power. In fact, there's never been a better time to be ...

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 ...

Last month we kicked off the first of a two-part story about getting the underhood details right on several Mopar big-blocks. The days of a thorough cleaning being good enough are long gone. Car shows ...

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 ...