If you're looking for a sign to buy a monster vehicle, this is it. Overtime Traxx is on sale again and for less money than ...

Chevy had the D-Series for ... The 1958 W-Series big-block V-8 really was a monster, with a dry weight of nearly 700 pounds. The engine block was made of cast iron, had a bore center of 4.84 ...

Introduced in 1970, the Chevy 454 -- affectionately known as the Rat Motor -- was the largest displacement Chevrolet engine to enter the big-block engine showdown of the muscle car era.

Chevy's Vortec 8100 — AKA the L18, AKA the Vortec 8.1 — was the last of The General's big block V8s, a line of engines that traced its lineage clear back to the fire-breathing muscle cars of ...

This Dart-based 582 big-block Chevy mill made over 1,000 hp on pump gas and a healthy dose of boost. If you’re going to build a big-block then going really big is the best game plan.

An experimental race engine that was canceled before it got to race, the Mark IIS "Mystery Motor" remains one of the most fascinating V8s built by Chevy ...

with Chevrolet's legendary 327 V8 engine proving a worthy counterpart to the big-block beasts. Affectionately nicknamed "The ...

So just what is this utter beast of an engine, and how does it produce so much power? Let's check it out in some more detail. Originally designed as an alternative to a big-block Chevy for ...

Instead, it has a honkin’ 8.1-liter big-block Chevy V8 with a turbo strapped to ... Ford pickup with a GM engine that was discontinued 15 years ago. “As for the truck and the idea, I had ...

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 ...