General Motors will spend nearly a billion dollars tooling up Buffalo for its sixth-generation of small-block V8 production.

Big-block V8 engines have long been at the heart of American ... radical solid-lifter camshaft, and a forged steel bottom end. This powerhouse demanded 103-octane fuel and featured an aggressive ...

Divisions Ford Model e, Ford Blue Founded 1903 Founder Henry Ford Headquarters Dearborn, Michigan Current CEO HotCars tracked ...

Displacement figures for early models remained modest until the 1960s brought an increasing degree of large and powerful American V8 engines to market, and they became known as big block V8s.

Like other businesses, the bottom line is a big deal. If ever there is a chance ... engine actually shares the exact same engine block as the V8. Instead of using the same architecture and ...

The question came up because GM celebrated its 100-millionth small block in late 2011, a milestone nearly 6 decades in the making. Big block V8s ... or twelve at the bottom of this article.

This is not the first time Chevy used the LS6 designation, as a completely different engine based on the automaker’s big block V8 architecture ... The majority of the bottom end components ...

From 1965 through 1976, car shoppers could get a new Chevy with the "Rat" big-block V8. *Yes, the very first overhead-valve Detroit V8 in a production car was the 288-cube D-Series, installed in ...

Scarcer still are clean-sheet V8 designs. But bucking modern trends, Ford has created an all-new big-block gasoline unit for use in heavy trucks. Displacing a burly 7.3-liters, this engine will ...

No, this isn’t a joke; Chevy just unveiled a 10.4-liter, naturally aspirated V8 ... deck block itself is made from burly cast iron, and features four-bolt main caps similar to the 572 Big ...

Key takeaways: A small-block engine is smaller than a big-block engine, but size doesn't always determine power output. Small-block engines like the Chevy 327 and 454 big-blocks are iconic and ...