Among big-block muscle fans, a quiet consensus has been building around a car that rarely makes the posters or the auction ...

Capable of producing massive torque with a proverbial yawn, the long-running big block from Chevy was born purely out of necessity in 1958, a few years after the small block. With cars getting heavier ...

In the '60s, America developed some cool, advanced engines, such as Pontiac's overhead cam inline-6 or the jet-turbine in the Chrysler Turbine Car. Still, when push comes to shove, our first love is a ...

I wasn’t going to write this. I’ve refrained ever since I saw the rumor emerge about a week ago. But now that people are still talking about the so-called “big-block” Duramax, I feel like it’s time to ...

Hot rod builds a mouse trap and tries to catch a rat. Originally published in the August 1998 issue of Hot Rod magazine. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring ...

It’s alive! It’s aliiive! And it can be driven! Not that there was any doubt in the passion project that put an 8.1-liter big block into a C8 Corvette. If anyone was gonna make the ballsy pairing work ...

To get 582 cubes the builder needed the right starting point, and that turned out to be a tall-deck Dart block. To that he added forged guts including Callies rods, a Callies 4.375-inch stroker crank, ...

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 ...

This overlooked gem features an engine with performance pedigree, but it goes largely unloved because of its badging.

There are many ways that automakers, particularly American ones, categorize the V8 engines they produce. They can essentially be put into one of two categories: big-block engines and small-block ...