Big-block V8 engines have long been at the heart of American muscle car performance. Some of these engines became mass-manufactured icons while others remained as hidden gems, known only to ...

The Chrysler Corporation manufactured the last of its big block engines, the B-coded 400-cubic-inch V8, in the summer of 1978. The 400's disappearance ended a long run of Chrysler B-code engines ...

Since the dawn of the muscle car era, which initially exploded in the 1960s, car enthusiasts have been obsessed with V8 engines. Much of the fanfare was explicitly centered around the big block ...

Engines from the Big Three (Ford ... a six-cylinder or a small-displacement V8. As such, examples are extremely easy to find. The average small block V8 pulled out of a 50-plus year old station ...

Dropping a Big Block into the C8 Corvette engine bay requires quite a bit of custom work and engineering, including adaptation of the new 8.1L V8 to mate with the C8’s factory eight-speed dual ...

In these days of monster engines, the 450 ci just doesn't cut ... inch-od rod journals can easily be offset-ground down to the big-block Chevy's 2.200-inch size. That's key to parts availability ...

Chevy is going back to the drag strip with an updated COPO Camaro for 2022, and it will be powered by a big block engine ... by Chevy's biggest engine, its 572-cubic-inch V8.

It’s a rare occasion when an automaker develops a brand-new engine family. Scarcer still are clean-sheet V8 designs. But bucking modern trends, Ford has created an all-new big-block gasoline ...

Declining pickup sales and soaring gasoline prices are threatening Ford Motor Co.'s big-block V8 engine program. Ford told suppliers last week to stop work on a 6.2-liter V8 engine that had been ...