The Detroit Diesel 6-71 could not run without the blower bolted to its side. As a two-stroke, it had no way to pull in its own air. Instead, a gear-driven pump did the breathing for it. After World ...

One iconic image spans the hot rods of the 1950s and modern franchises such as The Fast and the Furious. It has come to represent American ingenuity and the supremacy of the infinitely tunable Detroit ...