I started learning to work on cars in the late 1970s by helping my stepdad turn salvaged mid-1960s Chevy Chevelles into street-stock-class race cars. Throughout that period, I had my hands on a number ...

The Boss 351 Ford engine is the basis for the construction of the stroked 366 Ford drag engine. It looks strong. You guys are probably asking yourselves, "Okay, what's a 366-inch Chevy or Ford engine, ...

We put both engines on the dyno to see which made more horsepower and torque. It didn’t go as planned. Over the past year, we assembled two very mild small-blocks aimed at the typical hot-rodder ...

Among the many variations of the iconic small-block Chevy, the short-lived but ferocious 302 aka DZ302, stands out as a high-revving race-bred V8 built for one purpose: Trans-Am dominance. Introduced ...

When the gearheads of the world get together to talk about the most powerful vehicles from the early muscle car era, those sporting the more notable big block engines of the day tend to take up most ...

The year was 1969, and the muscle car era delivered some of the best factory stock performance ever. A rivalry that began just a few years prior with the launch of the 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Sport ...

There are quite a few rare Chevy V8s. I could go on about '56 Corvette dual-quad 265s with Duntov cams, ZL-1s, L88s, L89 aluminum-headed 396s, and L84 fuel-injected 327s. Rarer still is the Z-11 427 W ...

With four-figure horsepower numbers right out of the box, the Chevrolet Performance ZZ632/1000 crate engine is an absolutely beastly powerplant. This 1969 Chevy Chevelle takes all those cubes and ...

The 1963 Chevrolet Impala 409 has never been subtle. Even among Chevrolet loyalists, the W-motor big blocks carry a mythic glow, the kind of powerplants that helped rewrite performance expectations ...