Over the past year, we assembled two very mild small-blocks aimed at the typical hot-rodder looking for a solid street engine built on a budget. Once both engines were assembled, HOT ROD editor John ...

General Motors has spent decades refining overhead-valve V8s while much of the industry pivoted to dual overhead cam designs, ...

As the old saying goes, "God created men. Samuel Colt made them equal." That 1847 quote referenced the iconic six-shooter, but when it comes to hot-rodding the great equalizer would have to be nitrous ...

When it comes to 20th century American-made engines, Chevrolet's big block V8 motors are among the most highly regarded by automotive enthusiasts and experts alike. With their power, durability, and ...

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 ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

In automotive nomenclature, small-block V8 engines are typically physically smaller than their big-block counterparts, hence the nickname. With some exceptions, the piston bores, stroke, cylinder head ...

If the only thing holding you back from a GM V8 swap is some sort of social-media-hardened dislike for overhead-valve (OHV, aka pushrod) motor designs, Bring a Trailer may have just the thing for you: ...