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What actually happens when oil pressure drops to zero and you keep driving? Richard Holdener and Chad Reynolds put it to the test on The Wheel of Death, combining controlled destruction with real failure analysis.

A Gen VI 454 pulled from a salvage yard produced 370 hp in baseline form. Tested with four successive power-adders, the junkyard big-block reached 832 hp and 866 lb-ft of torque on twin turbos at 12.3 psi.