The GM Gen 6 Small Block is a family of gasoline eight cylinder engines produced by General Motors Company for use in various vehicles, including sports cars, pickup trucks, SUVs and possibly vans.

The Yenko/SC 427 Nova packed big-block power into a tiny Chevy and became so extreme that some insurers refused to cover it.

The Big Block motor that spearheaded the muscle car era. We dive into the details behind this impressive engine and its legacy. Debuted in 1970, the Chevy 454 Big Block became iconic for power and ...

The Chevy 454 Big Block V8 is one of the most legendary powerplants in American automotive history. Known for its massive displacement and stump-pulling torque, it powered everything from muscle cars ...

GM’s Chevrolet LS engines redefined the pushrod V8 to give us one of the most dominant performance platforms of the modern era. What we refer to today as the LS family of engines usually refers to the ...

Some things are just fundamentally part of American culture. Baseball. Apple pie. Catchy ad campaigns. And small-block Chevrolets. For only the sixth time since the small-block arrived inside the ...

Mighty 409-cubic-inch, big-block V-8s may have rocked drag strips back in the day, but those motors never made it into the engine bay of any factory Corvette. That changes with the introduction of a ...

Engine builders compare Ford and Chevy small blocks when adding boost and performance upgrades. #EngineBuilding #Mechanic Was this dress 'too much' on the Oscars red carpet? Donald Trump won't stop ...

The Mighty Mouse – not to be confused with another very famous cartoon mouse with the same initials – was an animated hero created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox in 1942. Mighty Mouse ...

The 1960s were a time that saw muscle cars with the best names and automakers racing for horsepower supremacy. While drag racers often turned to large displacement big-block engines for power, others ...

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 ...