Typically, a big block starts around 396 cubic inches or 6.5 liters and can climb up to 10 liters or so, depending on the engine. Others may consider some engines, like the Ford 332 V8 ...

Since the dawn of the muscle car era, which initially exploded in the 1960s, car enthusiasts have been obsessed with V8 engines. Much of the fanfare was explicitly centered around the big block ...

It’s a rare occasion when an automaker develops a brand-new engine family. Scarcer still are clean-sheet V8 designs. But bucking modern trends, Ford has created an all-new big-block gasoline ...

An experimental race engine that was canceled before it got to race, the Mark IIS "Mystery Motor" remains one of the most fascinating V8s built by Chevy ...

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 ...

The 7.4-liter LSX454 V8 is a modern interpretation of the iconic 454 big block. The engine can be modified to increase its power output. With the single-plane carbureted intake manifold ...

Breaking ground, Ford has developed a brand new big-block gasoline V8 engine to offer customers more choice while simultaneously replacing the tried-and-true 6.8-liter V10 that’s used in medium ...

Chevy Malibu SS may be significantly lighter, but it's still not powerful enough to outgun a big-block-powered 1969 Chevelle.

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Anyway, the Megazilla engine kept Big-G's displacement ... Performance were able to force enough air into an iron-block, pushrod V8 to produce north of a thousand horsepower without blowing ...

That first engine, the LS1, was a 5.7 liter, aluminum block, pushrod V8 that, in Corvette trim ... and it's what makes the LS-series as big a deal as it is. If you need a powerful and more ...