When the people at General Motors Performance Parts introduced their LSX block, a heavy-duty cast-iron piece for the LS engine family, they also threw down the claim that this new piece could reliably ...

Sometimes you just have to start from the ground up when it comes to building an engine to handle your specific desires. While the LS series welcomes all sorts of bolt-on performance mods to increase ...

The hot rod industry has been built around the small-block Chevy. After five decades of production car development, million of dollars in engineering, and countless racing exploits, GM Powertrain ...

Chevy revealed its largest crate engine yet at SEMA—the 776hp LSX454R. A cast iron block is crowned with 6-bolt LSX aluminum heads which together with forged aluminum pistons help deliver a ...

Adding displacement is one of the simplest and most effective means of adding horsepower to any engine, let alone an LT1 or LS1 that are both highly responsive to modification. Thankfully GM has ...

An endangered species due to increasingly stringent fuel economy and emission regulations, the Chevy small-block V8 rolled out in 1964 with a displacement of 265 cubic inches in the C1 Corvette. If ...