Over the years, General Motors has employed several eight-cylinder engine designs ranging from the inline "Straight-8" to the current LT1 V8. However, many agree that the small-block LS engines were ...

In general, the General Motors Vortec 5.3-liter V8 is a powerful, dependable engine. If you're not familiar with General Motors' Vortec engines, they are a family of small-block V8s that GM put into ...

With the launch of Chevy's small-block V8 in 1955, General Motors introduced an engine family that would make its way into millions of vehicles across the world. It was especially known as a mainstay ...

The hue and cry continue over the preponderance of LS engines in this magazine, and it has not gone unnoticed. So let's travel to a distant land; affect your best English accent and repeat after us, ...

Vortech Engineering has done it again. Now owners of 1999-2013 Gen III and Gen IV Vortec V8 engines (as pulled out of Chevy, GMC, and Hummer light trucks and SUVs) can install a belt driven V3 SCi ...

For those readers out there who may be scratching their heads, the big red Swedish meatball you see before you is a 1974 Volvo C303, hailing from the automaker’s line of military vehicles. This ...

Chevy's Vortec 8100 — AKA the L18, AKA the Vortec 8.1 — was the last of The General's big block V8s, a line of engines that traced its lineage clear back to the fire-breathing muscle cars of the '60s ...

Brian Gruben won't lie. He wants to go fast, but he's on a budget like the rest of us. Unlimited funds are for the federal government. Follow along and we'll show you how Gruben added 40-plus ...

The first generation of the C/K line ran through 1966, the year the C10 received a 327ci V8 with 220 ponies and 320 pound-feet (434 Nm) of torque on tap. As for the black-painted truck we’re covering ...

This fellow isn’t your typical 1974 Chevrolet K5 Blazer. Based on the vehicle identification number, CKY184F141935 used to rock a 350 small block, a four-barrel carb, 160 ponies, and 245 pound-feet ...