GENEVA - Richard Parry-Jones likes to compare the building blocks of Ford Motor Co. vehicles to the pieces in a set of Lego Technic, the version of Lego building toys used to make mechanical models.

Ford's Y-block V8 architecture has never ... Ted Eaton from Waco, Texas, has been building killer Y-blocks for years, and decided to give HOT ROD's 2015 AMSOIL Engine Masters Challenge a shot.