In the library of internal combustion engines, there are two sections. One has engines that are precision-engineered masterpieces. The other belongs to robust engines, designed to survive Armageddon.

The 1960s were a time that saw muscle cars with the best names and automakers racing for horsepower supremacy. While drag racers often turned to large displacement big-block engines for power, others ...

The Big Block motor that spearheaded the muscle car era. We dive into the details behind this impressive engine and its legacy. Debuted in 1970, the Chevy 454 Big Block became iconic for power and ...

The Chevy 454 Big Block V8 is one of the most legendary powerplants in American automotive history. Known for its massive displacement and stump-pulling torque, it powered everything from muscle cars ...

General Motors either has a naming problem or a deep sentimental attachment to the name "LT1". If you walk into a Chevrolet dealership today and ask for an LT1, you are looking at a 455-horsepower ...

Displacing 6.7 liters, GM's new small-block V-8 makes 535 horsepower and 520 pound-feet of torque, the highest output of any Chevy Corvette base engine. Dubbed the LS6, it features a lofty 13.0:1 ...

Some things are just fundamentally part of American culture. Baseball. Apple pie. Catchy ad campaigns. And small-block Chevrolets. For only the sixth time since the small-block arrived inside the ...

GM’s Chevrolet LS engines redefined the pushrod V8 to give us one of the most dominant performance platforms of the modern era. What we refer to today as the LS family of engines usually refers to the ...

Mighty 409-cubic-inch, big-block V-8s may have rocked drag strips back in the day, but those motors never made it into the engine bay of any factory Corvette. That changes with the introduction of a ...

Over the last 112 years, Chevrolet's lineup of production automobile engines has evolved. Chevrolet's first engine was the 40-horsepower 299-cubic-inch six-cylinder that powered the 1911 Chevrolet ...