Driving Line compares the GM 4.2-liter inline-six-cylinder Vortec 4200 to Toyota's 2JZ engine, one of the most powerful inline-6 engines ever put in a production car. While the production GM 4.2 ...

Once a staple of the hot rod and modification scenes, the era of the big block V8 engines has largely ended thanks to technological advances in the 1980s and 1990s. The result was 340 horsepower ...

While the 350-cubic-inch version wasn't the first ... However, since the original Gen III Vortec 5300 engine has the best ...

Over the following years, Chevrolet would use the engine for many of its vehicles. The SBC 350 used the same small ... The 5.3-liter Vortec 5300 was part of its third-generation SBC in 1999 ...