Size doesn't always matter when comparing Chevy small blocks and big blocks engines. Here's why Chevrolet had a good thing going with its small-block V-8s, introduced in 1955, but wanted to ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...