Two companies, Ford and General Motors, kept the big block chugging forward all the way through the '80s, '90s, and 2000s. Here's a look at the five final big block V-8 engines sold in America, and ...

While there is some contention surrounding who produced the first muscle car, we can all agree that Chevrolet was certainly in the mix of it all during America's earliest muscle car days. In an effort ...

Many people would argue that, with the same displacement, a small-block Chevrolet will produce less power than a big-block Chevrolet. Others might claim that the small-block's weight advantage cancels ...

I needed to call AFR boss Rick Sperling to give him the great results I had just seen with a pair of his company's small-block Chevy heads on a 350. In a way, I was just bragging, because our ...

You could go big without going full luxe at the end of the 1960s and still satisfy your big-block craving at your closest ...

Photographers have an oft-used saying: "It's not the camera, it's the photographer." We would like to adapt that saying to the world of performance engines, ergo: "It's not the engine, it's the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades Chevy racers and engine builders have known in their hearts that the venerable Chrysler Hemi combustion chamber design with huge intake and exhaust ports and valves was more efficient, and ...