G M has announced it is adding another plant to support production of its sixth generation V-8 for use in full-size trucks ...

T he well-known names in classic muscle car performance were almost always associated with big-block engines, be they Ford ...

Although modern V-8 engines come in all sorts of "large" displacements, to technically qualify as a " big block" a motor must feature a small cylinder bore combined with a long stroke. This design ...

Gen V, introduced in 1991 ... See All 13 Photos This 1965 Mark IV 396ci big-block Corvette engine cutaway display was used at the World's Fair in New York in 1965.. At the time, it was the ...

In an ongoing program, lessons learned from the 1965-to-present Mark IV have been used to improve the new Mark V big-block engine. The 7.4L (454-cid) Mark V is the latest incarnation of the ...

big blocks and small blocks. Although it made many iconic cars like the Gremlin, Javelin, and Eagle, the American Motors Corporation did not offer or manufacture any big blocks in its muscle cars.

The subcompact Chevy Spark was known for a lot of things — mainly a four-figure MSRP on its price tag here in Canada, if you ...

Chevrolet revealed the 2022 COPO Camaro on Friday with a new 572-cubic-inch big-block V-8 base engine. The big-block features aluminum heads on a cast-iron block with four-bolt main caps ...

The big block V8 used to be a staple of hot rod and modification scenes. The old adage "there's no replacement for displacement" is seriously dated in the modern era, but it rang true in the era ...

short strokes = small blocks and long strokes = big blocks. This ties in with another answer which states that V-shaped blocks are Small and Y-shaped blocks are Big. The Y-shape would ...

There were actually some pretty amazing small-block V-8s of the era, but it was the big-block which ruled the streets in the 1960s and early 1970s. Technically, the GTO's 398 Tri-Power engine was ...

Surprisingly, the Caprice offered not one, but a trio of big-block V-8 engines. First-year buyers had a choice between the solid-lifter, high-compression L72 427-cubic-inch unit (425 hp ...