Muscle car dudes and truck guys will be very familiar with the crate engine. For those who aren't in-the-know, a crate engine is a mill that can be bought from the manufacturer as a fully assembled ...

Anniversary 427 Big-Block New for 2008, GM Performance Parts re-releases the vaunted ZL1 crate engine. Built off of the original (and restored) tooling, it's as close to the real thing that you can ...

America is the land of the free and of V8s. While turbocharging is great and all, most of us dream of a large, hunking V8 that sounds glorious, leaves unending skid marks, and offers the thrust of a ...

If you're interested in finding a 502-cubic-inch big block Chevrolet engine, one of the biggest V8s GM ever built, you're in luck. Chevrolet currently produces the engine and provides it to various ...

Long before the muscle car wars, Chevrolet was already experimenting with V8 power, offering an overhead-valve engine as early as 1917. Ford’s 1932 flathead V8 often gets the spotlight for igniting ...

The engine crate market is not for the faint-hearted. It's a place where enthusiasm, power, and mechanical complexity all converge to allow car geeks to turn an empty engine bay into something special ...

In lockstep with the beating drum of “more power” is one of the top aftermarket automatic transmission rebuilders in the industry—Gearstar Performance Transmissions of Akron, Ohio. As breakthroughs in ...

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 ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

Chevrolet pulled the wraps off the supercar-slaying C6 Corvette ZR1 more than 18 years ago. Production of the car itself ended in 2013, but the engine that defined it, the supercharged 6.2-liter LS9, ...