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Nick Panaritis takes on a build with a deceptively simple goal: 600 horsepower from a 1968 440, on pump gas, reliable enough to drive every day. Part one follows the teardown and reassembly of an engine pulled straight out of a client’s own Charger, with commenters pointing to real-world proof the target is achievable. Watch to see how the build starts.
Dodge didn’t just one-up its own 707-horsepower Hellcat, it built a Challenger so quick that NHRA’s own rulebook technically has a problem with it. The Demon’s 840 horsepower, 9.65-second quarter mile, and Guinness-certified wheelstand all come from a Hemi V8 that shares its bones with the Hellcat but carries 25 real engineering changes underneath. This is what happens when a factory stops holding back.
Road Test TV lines up two of Chrysler’s rarest factory muscle cars, a 1968 Plymouth Road Runner and a 1968 Dodge Super Bee, both fitted with the legendary 426 Hemi, for a naturally aspirated quarter-mile grudge match. The comments reveal an audience less interested in who wins than in celebrating two genuine Mopar icons running clean 11-second passes. Watch to see how two of Detroit’s most feared engines settle a very friendly family argument.
VisioRacer’s countdown of the 15 best-sounding V8 engines has racked up 3.7 million views, and the comments turn into a timestamp-by-timestamp debate over a supercharged Hellcat whine, the Shelby GT350’s flat-plane Voodoo V8, a 6.4 Hemi, and even a surprise Volvo entry. Watch the full list and see where your favorite lands.
This 1970 Mercury Cyclone GT was built to be crushed. As a factory pilot car used to validate Mercury’s production line, its entire purpose ended the moment testing wrapped up, most cars in this role never survive to see a public road. This one did, and it came loaded with the Super Cobra Jet package: a 375-horsepower 429 V8, four-speed manual, and 4.30 gears built for straight-line speed. Watch to find out how a car that was never meant to exist ended up in the Brothers Collection decades later.
A 650-horsepower Camaro isn’t supposed to out-lap a Ferrari 488 GTB, a McLaren MP4-12C, and a Nissan GT-R around the Nurburgring, but that’s exactly what the 2018 ZL1 1LE did, running a 7:16.04 with an ALMS driver behind the wheel. Multimatic’s adjustable DSSV dampers and a genuinely track-tuned aero package back up the number. At ,995, it embarrasses cars costing three times as much.
Thirty years after Saleen’s race team swept the Driver’s, Manufacturer’s, Team, and SCCA Escort Endurance Championships in a single dominant 1987 season, Saleen built a Mustang to mark it — and brought back General Tire, the partner that helped secure that win, to do it. Just 30 examples of this Black Label-based Commemorative Edition exist, each packing a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 tuned to 730 horsepower for the street or 750 for the track. It’s proof that some anniversaries deserve more than a badge.
Nth Moto’s built Viper ACR ran an 18-inch street tire, an H-pattern manual gearbox, and enough power to make viewers question whether AWD supercars even matter anymore during TX2K18. That Racing Channel called it the most savage street car they’d ever ridden alongside — and the comments back it up. Watch the 50-to-180 pull that left even seasoned viewers stunned.
This 1968 Camaro claims 1000 horsepower with zero turbo, supercharger, or nitrous — just massive displacement, 14:1 compression, and a camshaft aggressive enough to make it idle like it’s fighting itself. Freshly restored and cruising the streets of Houston at roughly 2,950 pounds with the driver, it’s the kind of build commenters say they’ve replayed a thousand times just for the sound. Watch to hear it for yourself.
Pontiac built exactly eight 1969 Firebird Trans Am convertibles, and V8TV has now featured every single one of them, including this fourth car, the one with the lowest VIN sequence number of the group. The eighth car in the set went missing for years before finally surfacing and getting restored in 2016. See what makes this particular Trans Am worth a second look inside an already impossibly rare set of eight.
When one of the first 2019 Chevrolet ZR1s in the country landed at a Kentucky Chevy dealership, salesman Mike Davenport was there to see it delivered. The car reopened a debate that had nearly killed one of the ZR1’s most talked-about options entirely: should you actually buy the manual? Watch to see the car that nearly didn’t get a stick shift at all.
Cars Garage skips the dyno-pull theatrics and shows the entire assembly of a Chevrolet Corvette 6.2L supercharged LS9 — the engine that once made the ZR1 the fastest production car GM had ever built. Every torque spec, every forged component, every step from bare block to finished 638-horsepower engine is on camera. Watch to see what actually separates a factory-grade rebuild from a shortcut.
A driver takes a 2017 Camaro ZL1 out for their first-ever laps on track, sharing the session with a Ford GT — one of the most exclusive supercars Ford has built in decades. With a supercharged 650-horsepower LT4 V8 and a chassis engineered specifically for road-course work, the ZL1 was built for exactly this moment. Watch how a first-timer handles a car with this much capability.
A 2008 Shelby GT500 running a smaller supercharger pulley, a custom tune, and drag radials for roughly 650 horsepower takes on a completely stock 2013 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe and its factory 556 horsepower LSA V8 in a heads-up quarter mile. The Cadillac’s showing against a 100 horsepower deficit drew real respect in the comments, and the channel even responded to a viewer’s question about the included density altitude data. Watch the run to see just how close a modified car and a stock one can actually be.
The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS LS6 454 carried a factory rating of 450 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque, the highest gross horsepower GM ever officially assigned a muscle car. This feature breaks down exactly why that number happened in 1970 specifically, and why regulatory changes the following year made sure no muscle car would ever match it again in the same way. Even Mopar loyalists show up in the comments to give credit where it’s due. Watch to see the case laid out in full.