A look back at HOT ROD magazine’s initial coverage of Chevy’s all-aluminum 427 engine from the December 1968 issue.

Its lightweight engine block was also used as the base for the Repco-Brabham 620 Formula 1 V8 in 1966. Thanks to this unit, Jack Brabham won the Drivers' title that year while his team finished ...

Engine names are often quite straightforward. The small-block Chevy, for example, is a small-block engine. But what about ...

Launched in 1965 to great critical acclaim with a displacement of 396 cubes (6.5 liters) as the L78 in the Corvette and L37 in the Chevelle, the quintessential big-block design grew to 402, then ...

Ever-improving design and analysis technology allowed Cummins engineers to make minute engineering improvements throughout the engine. Some of the greatest improvements were in the engine block ...

The girth of the block factors into this unofficial designation as the modern 7.0-liter LS7 from the Corvette is based on a small block design while early Chevrolet W-series 348 and 409 engines ...

Also, GM doesn't consider this a sixth generation small-block—it's a whole new beast and is referred to as a small-block Gemini. Scroll through to read more about GM's LT6 engine details!

General Motors' LS series engines have been around since 1997, and have one key design feature that enables upgrades that ...

Race Cast Engineering builds these V-12 heads in-house. As the name suggests, the V-12 LS is a 12-cylinder engine that shares its basic design with Chevy’s iconic small-block.

If you want your engine to look great for years to come, it needs to be prepped properly before a drop of paint hits it. This can go two ways: roll the dice with an unknown block, inspect it as ...

We found three Chevy small-block crate engines with at least 500 horsepower with displacements including 376, 400, and 427 cubic inches (6.2, 6.6, and 7.0 liters, respectively).