Jack Merkel Performance Engines is serious about Turbo Buick powerplants. "I saw that there was no one filling the engine demands for guys with 10- and 11-second cars," says Merkel. "I spent a lot of ...

Hot rodding's pioneers had to be self-reliant, making stuff for themselves. Today, just about everything is available out of a catalog . . . at least for mainstream engines. But what if you have an ...

Would it get your attention if we offered you the inside line on a high-torque, long-stroke, small-block engine that weighs nearly a hundred pounds less than a small-block Chevy? Or how about a motor ...

When people think of Buicks these days, typically they don't picture the epitome of performance. Arguably it wasn't since the 1980s that the General Motors branch was associated with "performance" at ...

No, "Nailhead" is not the guy on the movie poster for Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" — that's Pinhead. The name "Nailhead" is a direct result of Buick trying to make a V8 as slim as possible. Buick's 322 ...

Cobus has never been able to keep his car opinions to himself and at age 12, he expressed them in no uncertain terms to a certain motoring magazine’s editor. It was the first of many times he would be ...