With thousand-horsepower production cars—both gas-powered and electric—hitting the streets in significant numbers, some hot rodders have been left scratching their beards about what to do, making this ...

Chevy big-block V8 engines, affectionately known as “Rat Motors,” have left an indelible mark on the automotive world with ...

Introduced in 1970, the Chevy 454 — affectionately known as the Rat Motor – was the largest displacement Chevrolet engine to enter the big-block engine showdown of the muscle car era. At 454 cubic ...

Chevrolet is known for producing a lineup of powerful small block Chevy crate engines. However, the biggest Chevy crate engines include big block varieties as well. Chevrolet's largest displacement ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

Chevrolet’s 427 engine that set Daytona on its ear in 1963 and was appropriately dubbed the “Mystery V8” because the secrecy which enveloped the project has risen like the legendary phoenix from the ...

GM's LS7 engine is a well-known platform, and a modified one recently sold on Bring a Trailer for a lot of money. Upon closer ...

The 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle is far from rare by overall production numbers, but this specific coupe is one of only eight sold ...

In the '60s, America developed some cool, advanced engines, such as Pontiac's overhead cam inline-6 or the jet-turbine in the Chrysler Turbine Car. Still, when push comes to shove, our first love is a ...

1971 was not one for the graduation albums of anyone in Detroit. Big and small automakers were served the low-compression-only course from the federal government. Basically, lead and gasoline could no ...

In automotive nomenclature, small-block V8 engines are typically physically smaller than their big-block counterparts, hence the nickname. With some exceptions, the piston bores, stroke, cylinder head ...