Hemmings Muscle Machines

Time to Test and Tune

“…the first steps involve figuring out if what you’ve got is working to its full potential.”

When we conceived the idea to do a Special Section devoted to Engine Power, the thinking was that we’d focus on extracting the most from muscle car V-8s. The pursuit of performance spawned these cars, and there’s been a faction of the market seeking to improve them since these cars first rolled out of dealerships.

I doubt anyone realized back then that

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