These days, enthusiasts can find performance versions of just about every single model under the sun, but back in the ‘90s, building a truck or utility vehicle for speed was still considered somewhat ...

The Chevy 454 and Pontiac 455 V8 engines both came from General Motors. What are the biggest differences between them, and ...

Jim Homick, viaCarCraft.com: I am building a 454 Chevy with a D1SC ProCharger. It will be used primarily for the street, but I will be bringing it to the strip. Which style of cylinder head should I ...

In the Oct. '05 issue of Sport Truck, we started the task of powering up a GM Vortec big-block powerplant in a '96 Chevy Crew Cab dualie. The goal was to increase the amount of torque the ...

General Motors introduced the Chevy 454 SS for the 1990 model year, giving enthusiasts a shot at muscle-bound V8 power in a pickup-truck wrapper. These days, performance options in the pickup segment ...

Two issues back, we subjected a 468-inch big-block Chevy to a variety of different oval-port cylinder heads, ranging from stock peanut-port-style heads to full CNC-ported versions (see “The Big O”).