Performance figures in our spec panel are extremely impressive, but they’re inadequate inasmuch as they don’t tell the story ...

American automakers have made small-block and big-block V8 engines for ages. Many classic automobiles have used big-block motors, including the 1969 Ford Mustang BOSS 429, 1970 Chevrolet Corvette ...

This is something that's calling itself a barstool that makes at least 621 HP from a 9.37 liter Chevrolet big block V8 crate engine, has a towing capacity of 2,000 pounds and you sit right on top ...

From 1965 through 1976, car shoppers could get a new Chevy with the "Rat" big-block V8. *Yes, the very first overhead-valve Detroit V8 in a production car was the 288-cube D-Series, installed in ...

Engines from the Big Three (Ford, General Motors ... As such, examples are extremely easy to find. The average small block V8 pulled out of a 50-plus year old station wagon will need some work ...

Scarcer still are clean-sheet V8 designs. But bucking modern trends, Ford has created an all-new big-block gasoline unit for use in heavy trucks. Displacing a burly 7.3-liters, this engine will ...

This big block Chevrolet V8 spits out a mind-boggling 1,250-horsepower at 7,700 RPM and an earth shattering 970 lb-ft of torque at 6,300 RPM, according to the seller who dyno’d the 632 cubic ...

The Chrysler Corporation manufactured the last of its big block engines, the B-coded 400-cubic-inch V8, in the summer of 1978. The 400's disappearance ended a long run of Chrysler B-code engines ...

Declining pickup sales and soaring gasoline prices are threatening Ford Motor Co.'s big-block V8 engine program. Ford told suppliers last week to stop work on a 6.2-liter V8 engine that had been ...

The seat is pushed back much further than in the standard car, since the subcompact now needs to accommodate a longitudinal big-block Chevy V8 and Turbo 400 sequential gearbox, which now power the ...

As such, one intrepid mechanic decided to rip out their Vette’s mid-mounted V8 in favor of a new 8.1L Big Block, as seen in the following video. The mad man behind the wrench in Larry Hofer ...

Chevy is going back to the drag strip with an updated COPO Camaro for 2022, and it will be powered by a big block engine ... of course. The V8 has a cast-iron block, aluminum heads, forged ...