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Our engine-building fun begins with . . . a cop car.
It’s doubtful that the engine from the ex-Ford cop car even saw it coming. But, what are we up to with it? You might recall that senior editor Malcolm Gunn was beating his forehead into the boardroom table over my expensive obsession with making things go faster and sound louder. But it looks like a killer piece, too, with its wide welded-sheetmetal valve covers, aluminum cylinder heads and no-nonsense black cylinder block. Add a carbon-fiber air box and suddenly senior editor Gunn is seeing the light instead of pounding his head on the desk.