GM’s factory skunkworks turned out this Chevy Vega with a well-engineered all-aluminum small-block in 1972. It didn’t make it ...

The Chevy small block 350 was pretty much identical to ... Featuring fuel injection and aluminum heads, the latter introduced in mid-1986, the 225 hp L98 was also available in the Camaro and ...

Let's get it out of the way early on – this article works on the popular assumption that the 1964 Pontiac GTO was the first ...

With pieces like titanium intake valves and forged aluminum pistons, the LT4 crate engine comes ready to offer serious performance, but Chevy also ... the same Gen V small block architecture ...

Between 1969 and 2021, the car had two long-time owners; a recent buyer made several mods to it, and the car now boasts a 440-hp crate 383 motor ...

While the small block V8 still used pushrods and had only two valves per cylinder, the Northstar V8 had four valves per cylinder, dual overhead camshafts, and an all-aluminum block. The initial ...

When he got the Chevy pony, he thought he had ... The casting numbers on the aluminum heads are correct, and the owner says the block houses 12.5:1 pistons—right on the money with the 1969 ...

Nearly as famous as Chevy's rides are the iconic big-blocks that powered them like the 427 Tri-power and the 454 LS6, but it's actually a small-block that has been Bowtie's backbone, from the ...

Other popular powerplants included the 396 big block and the small block Chevy 350, all offering peak horsepower rivaled by only the engine options available in the Corvette. The second-gen ...