How Chevrolet's DZ 302, L79 327, and LT1 350 small-block V8s made big power through high compression, superior airflow, and ...

This is the story of an old 374-inch Hendrick Racing NASCAR small-block Chevy that wound up at Jeff Ginter Racing Engines in Artesia, California. It seems the old race engine was being freshened-up ...

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 ...

American automotive performance in the 1950s was a simple recipe. If you wanted to go faster, you didn't optimize what you had; you just added more to it. More displacement, more iron, more horsepower ...

Nelson Racing builds a 427-inch stroker for a customer’s 1955 Chevy show car. With a solid-roller valvetrain, and the right parts, this big-inch small-block Chevy made over 600 hp on Westech’s dyno.

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 ...

The newest generation of the General's eight-cylinder powerplants makes a triumphant debut in the Corvette Grand Sport.

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

What we refer to today as the LS family of engines usually refers to the third and fourth generations of Chevrolet’s ...