Throughout its 110-year-plus history, Chevrolet has produced an impressive array of exceptional engines, ranging from contemporary performance titans like the LS9 and LS7 V8s to legendary powerplants ...

The big-block V-8 is so synonymous with classic Chevrolet performance that it seems kind of weird that it wasn't introduced until almost the 1960s. Chevy had the D-Series for a brief period of time in ...

Throughout its illustrious history, Chevrolet has built many iconic V8 engines, of which these five became renowned not just for their power potential but also for their bombproof reliability. In the ...

The Chevrolet 409 V8 had a significant, but brief moment in the history of American big-block, high-performance engines. While the 409 V8 may be best known as the title of a popular Beach Boys song ...

When Tom Nelson recently posted pictures and a video on Instagram of this unique engine he’d just finished, we knew we had to stop by for a closer look. A cursory glance at those unmistakable valve ...

From the February 1970 issue of HOT ROD: Producing well over 1 hp per cubic inch, Ron Hoettels' home-brewed 283-based four-cylinder beat the legendary Chevy V-8 engine at its own game. Racing history ...

Chevrolet has one of the longest and most distinguished histories in terms of muscle cars, engines, and racing. The brand is known for iconic cars like the 1953 Corvette and the 1970s Monte Carlo, all ...

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Let's define "small-block" so no one will get mad (people will still get mad). General Motors may call the Gen-III to Gen-V LS and LT V8s "small-blocks" in marketing materials, but even Chevrolet's ...