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A plate-style NOS nitrous kit, a Mopar small-block, and a set of suspiciously modern Dodge Challenger wheels come together in this Horsepower Wars install video, but the dyno numbers sparked more debate than the wrench work. While the crew walks through fuel enrichment, timing retard, and purge-line basics on a project car that might be running a stroked 402 cubic inch small-block, one commenter wasnt buying the horsepower gain shown on the Dynojet pulls. Is the modest bump proof that plate nitrous has limits, or is there more going on under that hood than the numbers let on?

This 2010 Camaro SS runs an LS3 pushed to 840 rear-wheel horsepower through a ProCharger centrifugal supercharger with a nitrous shot stacked on top, numbers that would embarrass most cars leaving a modern dealership floor. What actually separates this build from the dozens of boosted Camaros that grenade on their third pull is what happened to the internals long before the dyno ever spun up. Read on to find out what it took to make that kind of power survive.

A 1969 Dodge Daytona spent nine years sitting in a Kansas City junkyard, one of roughly fifty impounded cars slowly waiting their turn at the crusher after a used-car dealer’s title fraud scheme collapsed. One collector’s memory of a Richard Petty magazine ad is the only reason it still exists, and the deal he struck to save it was stranger than most restoration stories get. Read on for how it ended up winning a Concours Gold award decades later.

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