The PlanJust where this scheme was first hatched nobody seems to remember, but it has hotel bar written all over it. It must have been after a long, beautiful day on the road on Power Tour(r) or on top of 14 hours of sensory overload at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. When the HOT ROD staff is spooled up into a state of giddy exhaustion and the second round of beverages has been ordered-only then can a story idea as extreme as this one begin to make sense. The high concept: Take a truckload of crate engines and race-test them all in the same car, at the same time, on the same dragstrip. Yeah, right. Get real. Such a project would require a track thrash of heroic proportions. The logistics alone are a nightmare. It would demand far more time and budget than one feature could ever justify; meanwhile, any one of a zillion little things could go wrong and crash the whole stupid plan. One would have to be crazy to even suggest such a thing. But now here is the truly weird part: We pitched the idea to the gearheads at General Motors Performance Parts, Lisa Reffett… Read full this story
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