The 1967 Plymouth GTX arrived at a moment when Detroit was obsessed with cubic inches, and it did something bold even by ...
While iconic muscle cars like the Chevelle and Camaro often steal the spotlight, the Chevy Nova II remains a true hidden ...
The well-known names in classic muscle car performance were almost always associated with big-block engines, be they Ford Mustangs, Plymouth ’Cudas, or the Chevrolet Chevelle SS. What you may not know ...
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 ...
John Lohone’s 1,169-hp all-aluminum Brodix big-block cut through Drag Week’s Pro Street NA class for the win. Here’s how he did it. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first four ...
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 ...
It’s alive! It’s aliiive! And it can be driven! Not that there was any doubt in the passion project that put an 8.1-liter big block into a C8 Corvette. If anyone was gonna make the ballsy pairing work ...
It's been 50 years since Chevrolet last put a big block V8 in a Corvette from the factory. If you ask long-time engine tuner and full-time American muscle fanatic Larry Hofer, that's a shame. He ...
Introduced at the height of the muscle car golden age and produced until the mid-1990s, the 460 was never offered by Ford in a high-performance variant. However, thanks to its bombproof construction, ...
Chevrolet General Manager Ed Cole was always “looking over the horizon” for new technology. In 1957, Cole commanded his engineers to start working on a line of 1960 Chevrolets that would all use a ...
While there have been some iconic big-block engines over the last few decades, it's difficult to argue with the success of the small-block engine. Small-block engines not only weigh less — allowing ...