Benefits lie in the weight savings and fuel efficiency, but the engines still provide considerable performance. It's hard to pick a favorite, but the Chevy big-block series holds a special place ...

These two big-block V8 engines were also the swan song of the original ... Sadly, by 1972 only the LS4 (standard block) and ...

If you’re a fan of Chevy big-block engines then certain numbers make ... inch forged 4340 H-beam rods were mated to custom Pettis Performance vertical gas ported pistons. When you do the math ...

At the heart of the ZZ632/1000 Deluxe crate engine is the 632-cubic-inch Chevy big-block rated at 1,004 horsepower and 876 lb-ft of torque. While GM Performance Motor, brought to us by Gandrud ...

The new Chevy Performance catalog features other high ... "From the original Small Block and Big Block engines to the LS and new LT engines, we have never stopped innovating.

Once a staple of the hot rod and modification scenes, the era of the big block V8 engines has largely ended thanks to technological advances in the 1980s and 1990s. The result was 340 horsepower ...

This 90s performance truck has its fan base and ... but the smaller Syclone almost halved that time. Chevy's big block engines trace their evolution back to the 50s with the Mark I, or 'W-Series ...

It’s a C8 Chevy Corvette with a direct-injected, 8.1-liter big-block running variable ... a General Motors performance guru who literally wrote a book on the engine. Now, the project is alive ...

This 1970 Chevy El Camino ... Recently featured by the folks at AutotopiaLA, this big-block beast cradles a monstrous 498-cubic-inch V8 engine, which is outfitted with 13:1 compression, a solid ...

the mill should add a big dose of power to any project car. For the ZZ6, Chevy is working to improve the Small Block's high-rpm performance. To make that happen, the engine has Fast Burn aluminum ...

555 Inch Ford Big Block Dyno Tested at Westech Makes Almost 1,000 hp! Westech Performance dyno tests a 555-inch stroker Ford Performance big-block engine with 13:1 compression and twin Dominator ...