10 Dyno-Proven Horsepower Combos

The dynamometer has been called a polygraph machine, a tool for uncovering the truth, a gauge that can shatter your dreams or fulfill your fantasies.

Every year at the Car Craft Summer Nationals, we camp out at our portable DynoJet chassis dyno and attempt to unlock the secrets of the ultimate dyno-proven combination--the conglomeration of parts that just magically work together. That "ultimate" combination is elusive, but in our search for it, we stumble across many engine recipes that mirror what most of us actually have or are contemplating building. While a couple of the featured engines are tilted toward the more extreme end of the spectrum, we know that there are car crafters out there in readerland who drive radical street machines. Although our environment was less than ideal with record heat and humidity that undoubtedly affected the outcome of every dyno test, everyone faced the same obstacles. We sorted through 60-plus dyno-challenge entrants at this year's show in St. Paul, Minnesota, to bring you a variety of combinations of popular Chevy, Ford, and Mopar V-8s representing 10 different approaches to the goal of increased performance ranging from mild to wild.

Check out the combinations in the sidebars below.

By Marko Radielovic

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