Most vehicles are factory equipped with a cast iron exhaust manifold. Its primary purpose is to funnel gasses from several exhaust ports and route them through the exhaust system and out the back box. In the case of a 4-cylinder ...
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GM manufactures more than a million Gen-V V-Bs for its cars and trucks each year at three North American plants. All these engines have modem aluminum construction. direct injection, and variable cam timing. While the Corvette’s 6-2-liter LT1 version has ...
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Being the underdog can be very cool. After all. why choose the obvious option when there are alternatives that are under the radar but just as good? That’s how it was with the Manta. With Ford’s Capri flying out of ...
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Dubbed the poor man’s E-Type, thanks to its long bonnet and sporty hatch/coupe profile, the GT6 offered six-cylinder smoothness at an affordable price, while it was also compact and sporty. Far more than a mere hard-top Spitfire (which only ever ...
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As a direct rival to the MGB, 1960s sports cars didn’t come much more innocuous than here. So when Carroll Shelby was let loose with the Alpine, to create the Tiger by shoehorning a Ford V8 into the nose, he ...
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