Although Chevrolet developed a V8 engine as early as 1917, the company really made its mark with the small block V8 in 1955. Just three years later the automaker introduced the powerful 348 ci engine ...

If you're interested in finding a 502-cubic-inch big block Chevrolet engine, one of the biggest V8s GM ever built, you're in luck. Chevrolet currently produces the engine and provides it to various ...

Capable of producing massive torque with a proverbial yawn, the long-running big block from Chevy was born purely out of necessity in 1958, a few years after the small block. With cars getting heavier ...

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â ¢Exterior view of compact new V8 engine shows location of accessories.Accessibility is good due to big engine compartment.â ¢HRM's Tech Ed, left, and Managing Ed give Chev V8 engine the eyeball.

New information has surfaced about GM’s sixth-generation small-block V8, which is expected to come in two sizes.

A good V8 is hard to kill, especially if it’s a naturally aspirated (NA) one, meaning no turbocharging and no supercharging. In the simplest of terms, a V8 is an eight-cylinder piston engine with two ...

You wouldn't know it from looking at the outside, which looks entirely stock. It even has the original wheels.

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 ...

The be-all-end-all pushrod V8, the Chevrolet small block is the second V8 engine developed by the Golden Bowtie after the Series D of 1917. The original was discontinued in 1918 because it made ...