One thing that’s bothered me ever since I first built the stroker 4.6L engine for Project HMX was the serpentine belt routing. Recall that I got the engine out of a 1993 Jeep Cherokee and that I’ve decided to forgo air conditioning, along with any sort of mechanical fan. I’ve also installed a 1999-up Grand […]

Good news for those of you waiting patiently (verrry patiently) for an update on Project HMX: It’s out of the garage and back on the road. Over the weekend I slapped the exhaust back on it, dropped a fresh battery in it and the stroked 4.0L barked to life like it was just running the […]

It’s funny how you can lose inertia on a project in the blink of an eye. I hadn’t intended to let Project HMX sit for about a year with nothing doing on it – in fact, I had sworn to myself that I’d constantly do something, anything, on it to keep my momentum going – […]