The Holden V8 is a water-cooled naturally-aspirated 4-stroke gasoline engine featuring eight cylinders arranged in a 90 degrees vee-formation. It is an overhead valve design featuring two …

Jun 21, 2017 · The LS1 and its variants have proved very popular in all facets of street machining, but we’re here to tell you that there is life in the venerable Holden V8 yet. There are thousands …

The most significant change to the VC Commodore of March 1980 was the engine upgrading to "XT5" specification. Now painted blue and thus known as the Blue straight-sixes and Holden …

Aug 25, 2021 · Holden V8s won countless races and championships in their day, most famously in the Australian Touring Car Championship and its successors. Continually updated over the …

Jul 8, 2004 · Possibly no other engine other than the small iron block Chevy motors have had so much racing development. Today road registered twin turbo Holden V8 street machines are …

The Aussie V8, which made its public debut in the wildly extroverted Holden Hurricane (a 2-seater show car), was an advanced engine for its day, being quiet, torquey and easy-going. …

But now the Holden V8 – which powered Monaros and Toranas, Kingswoods, Commodores, Statesmans and Caprices since 1969 – is set for the knackery. There is no reprieve. It will be …

The Holden V8 was a V8 engine produced by General Motors–Holden in Australia between 1969 and 2000. The Holden 'bent eight' was the first and only Australian-designed and built V8 …

Jun 22, 2017 · History of the Holden V8 part one: Red Motor 253, 308 & F5000. We take an in-depth look at the history of Holden's Aussie-built V8 and the many changes it went through …

Aug 22, 2024 · How Holden’s new V8 powered a new generation of HSV performance heroes, luxury long wheelbase variants, and exports to the Middle East. HSV received the new LS1 …