These durable, high-perfomance engines are available for far less than you might imagine, including the Chevy LS3, Ford ...

We’re moving right along with our Summit Racing 427-ci small-block Chevy build. We started with a bare SPC engine block, and we’re building it from the bottom up. We left off last time with an ...

Could the small-block Chevy be the most popular engine-build that HOT ROD has covered over its 77-year history? We don’t have a running tally, but in our expert guesstimate, that is probably true. So ...

Building engines and having the ability to pull them on the dyno is by far one of our cooler moments as automotive scribes. In this instance, rather than doing a single buildup we assigned each ...

Chevrolet’s small-block V8 has outlived entire automotive trends, surviving turbo crazes, multivalve revolutions, and now the industry’s pivot to electrification. The constant through all of that has ...

When the gearheads of the world get together to talk about the most powerful vehicles from the early muscle car era, those sporting the more notable big block engines of the day tend to take up most ...

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 ...