The 1965 Ford Mustang K-Code 289 arrived as a compact, affordable coupe with a racing heart, and it quickly rewrote expectations for what an American pony car could do. With its high-compression ...

Sometimes, there comes an engine that just makes everything it's slotted into an instant classic; examples include the 2JZ, the K20, the W12, and the list goes on. One of these engines is the Ford 289 ...

Grafting an American eight-cylinder motor into a pretty European body was one of Carroll Shelby’s fabulous ideas – probably the greatest he ever materialized. The Cobra remains one of America’s most ...

With a rebuilt motor and a fourth-gear dyno pull, the Mustang scored 356 flywheel hp, but lost 19% of it at the tires, for a ...

For many classic truckers the term small-block means just one thing: the venerable little V-8 from Chevrolet. Certainly one of the most popular performance engines ever produced, the small-block Chevy ...

The 289 engine in our 1965 Mustang G.T. 350 clone sounded good and ran OK, but it just didn’t seem right. The bottom-end power was decent but as rpm rose, the 289 felt lazy. The guy we bought the car ...

Before the 289, there was the 260. This engine was a 90-degree V8 that was first seen in the Ford Fairlane. For its time, the engine line in the 260 were fuel-efficient small block V8s, and while not ...