If you have ever driven a Ford with a modular engine i.e. the 4.6 or 5.4 its seriously ho-hum. The ford OD transmissions have been horrible since they came out. Oh yeah, what about all those recalls. The last for I had received 5 RECALLS!! As soon as GM ramps up their 6 speed auto line and that becomes standard,…

The average blue collar joe can dig nascar because he can do it too. Unlike F1 racing where its in the billions to race, anyone with a few thousand bucks can put together a car and race it at the local speedway or dirt track. The basis for all NASCAR technology was based on the small block OHV V8. With the same…

I remember my Pudding Brown Plymouth Reliant that sported one of these motors, as well as the Faux Wood Dodge Caravan I owned in college. The balance shaft sure made the engine rev smooth like butter, but it never really did away with the horrible clatter that sounded like the death rattle of your first born.

In the end no one really cares do they? Ferrari blah, blah, blah.

These trucks are for the suburban warrior. Sometimes its nice to just get rad on some soccer dad in a Taurus and blow soot and fling mud and other assorted road debris all over his precious family transporter.