Racer Brown, HOT ROD’s tech editor, understood the intrinsic value of the small-block Chevy to such a degree that it changed his life. The Chevrolet Motors Division of the General Motors Corporation ...

The 1970 Corvette LT-1 arrived at a moment when big-block bragging rights seemed to define American performance, yet it ...

The 1960s were a time that saw muscle cars with the best names and automakers racing for horsepower supremacy. While drag racers often turned to large displacement big-block engines for power, others ...

Report No. 3 in our series on building a 350-cubic-inch Chevy V-8 engine comes to us from Jeff Smith by way of our October 1989 issue. Preparing a block and blueprinting are critical first steps in ...

Small-block V8 engines may not be as brawny or powerful as their big-block counterparts, but they completely revolutionized the car industry. However, since the V8 became a staple American power mill, ...

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 ...