Modified engines are the lifeblood of our sport and we love to showcase the most powerful, beautiful and inventive examples each year.
While V8s are a major focus, we cover almost anything of interest, including vintage engines such as the Ford flathead, late-model Japanese sixes and even Mazda rotary engines!
Torque-Power Big Paw-blocked Holden 488-cube V8
Despite having massive cubes for a small-block engine, this Big Paw block is a torquey, street-friendly mill built for a client who wasn’t chasing huge power but wanted loads of torque
ProFlo Performance-built Nissan CA18 mill
Overshadowed by the Nissan SR20 turbo, the CA18 is a turbocharged gem more resembling the straight-six RB25. ProFlo Performance built this ripper little combo for a customer’s Datsun 1200 with the goal of reaching 500rwhp
Grooty’s Race & Resto-built BMW M20B25 six combo
Danno ‘Grooty’ Groot built this BMW hot six combo for his partner’s ’85 E30 race car
Cam Waters’s XB Falcon coupe is powered by screaming, Supercars-bred 369ci Windsor
Here’s what happens when a professional Supercars racer commissions an ex-Supercars and Nascar engineer to build a ball-tearing mill for his street machine
ProFlo Performance-built 403-cube blown LS combo
This combo out of ProFlo Performance uses a cast-iron LQ9 block plus as-cast LS3 heads with stock valves and is destined for staffer Brodie Ward’s VL Commodore
BG Engines blown 355ci Holden V8 combo
Destined for a customer’s street/Powercruise VK Commodore, this Holden V8 combo pieced together by BG Engines is an absolute screamer
Turbo Toyota 1UZ-FE V8 mill in the build
We look into the build of the Toyota 1UZ V8 combo powering our Carnage Lexcen sleeper wagon project
ProFlo Performance-built twin-turbo 403-cube LQ9 combo
ProFlo Performance pieced together this boosted LS combo for a customer’s ’51 pick-up, expecting it to make around 900-1000hp on pump fuel
404-cube nitrous small-block Chev combo
Queanbeyan Engine Service has just put the finishing touches on this epic 404ci combo for a customer’s VR Commodore radial car, expecting it to make around 850hp naturally aspirated
Video: Listen to this 940hp, 411-cube Holden V8 scream
This big horsepower, naturally aspirated V8 donk pieced together by Molinari Race Engines is bound for Dom D’Agostino’s street-and-strip LX hatchback
1000hp street-and-strip 605-cube Chrysler Hemi
Here’s one for the Mopar faithful, from BK Race Engines in NSW
Little League 253 engine build – part two
Conclusion to the Little League 253 V8 engine build story
Little League: Hotting the mighty 253!
Presenting the most-requested tech yarn in Street Machine history – the Little League Holden 253 build up!
LS engine family part 1: Gen III + Gen IV
The LS engine has been in production for over a quarter-century, and there are literally dozens of variants to play with. Here’s the skinny on the whole bunch!
Flashback: Inside FPV’s supercharged Miami V8
Under the skin of FPV’s 335kW blown Miami V8
ProFlo-built, blown 427ci Windsor V8 combo
ProFlo Performance pieced together this 1100hp blown and injected Windsor for a customer’s Street Elite XY sedan
Harrop-blown 388-cube LS combo by Warspeed
Sam Ali charged Troy Worsley of Warspeed Industries to build a bomb-proof combo that could take all the hurt he could ever want to inflict
BG Engines 406-cube blown SBF combo
Here’s an absolute belter of a mill for the Ford fans, out of the BG Engines stable
Australian-made LS accessory drive solutions that work
The team at Queensland workshop Heavy Metal Garage is designing and building LS accessory drive solutions that look great and fit like a charm
Warspeed 388-cube twin-turbo Dart LS combo
Troy Worsley of Warspeed Industries built this beefy 388-cube twin-turbo Dart LS for a customer’s drag ‘n’ drive VC Commodore