* Common bolt patterns for items like the timing cover, rear cover, oil pan, front engine accessory drive systems, and valve covers (except the early perimeter bolt heads) The new firing order of ...

Over the past year, we assembled two very mild small-blocks aimed at the typical hot-rodder looking for a solid street engine built on a budget. Once both engines were assembled, HOT ROD editor John ...

But most engine builders aren't like Bill Mitchell. For the past 35 years, he's made a business out of acting on the what if thoughts that pop into his brain, and that's led his Long Island, New ...

Chevrolet's small-block engine family has gained a cult following among die-hard fans and non-GM aficionados since the original Gen 1 V8 debuted in the 1955 Chevrolet and C1 Chevy Corvette. It didn't ...

Chevrolet started making small block V8 engines all the way back in the mid-1950s and has had many different generations in that time. For over 40 years, Chevrolet made different sizes and variations, ...

Jack Baruth at Road & Track has taken a deep dive into Motus’ small block LS-based V4 engine and the possibilities of such a powertrain—and boy, are the possibilities endless. For the uninitiated, ...

Introduced in 1995 with few commonalities between it and the small-block V8 architecture, the LS engine family soldiers on to this very day although General Motors refers to the latest evolution as ...