Up until then, the small block was the one-and-only V8 on Chevy’s engine roster and proved to be reliable, capable, and ...

During the era when there was no replacement for displacement, these 5 ponies packed some ridiculously large big-block V8s ...

The car is listed for sale in Illinois for $15k, but it doesn’t have the engine or transmission; the seller has an old 396 V8 ...

The first production big-block, the W engine, was used in its larger cars and pickup trucks for the 1958 model year and continued through 1964. Chevrolet offered several variations of the 348 big ...

Chevrolet’s introduction of big-block V8 engines in the Corvette marked a turning point for the model, bringing a significant ...

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 35-hp EH90 and 40-hp EH99 999cc big block V-Twin air-cooled gasoline engines offer temperature sensors on the engine heads that will shut off the engine to prevent damage from overheating due ...

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Chevy's Vortec 8100 — AKA the L18, AKA the Vortec 8.1 — was the last of The General's big block V8s, a line of engines that traced its lineage clear back to the fire-breathing muscle cars of ...