Outlines how to remove, dissassemble, recondition, rebuild and replace a small-block engine?all in step-by-step clarity. Covers models: 262, 265, 283, 302, 305, 307, 327, 350 and 400 cid engines.

The Chevrolet big-block is the workhorse racing engine of the muscle-car era. The 427 W first showed up midyear as a stroked 409 for the 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS. However, a year before, ...

This 11-second muscle car dominated drag strips in the early 1960s, and would remain Ford's fastest muscle car of the era. No ...

The Ford and Chevy 427 big blocks sit at the center of one of performance history’s fiercest rivalries, yet the two engines followed very different paths from the dyno cell to the winner’s circle. I ...

Chevrolet General Manager Ed Cole was always “looking over the horizon” for new technology. In 1957, Cole commanded his engineers to start working on a line of 1960 Chevrolets that would all use a ...

Capable of producing massive torque with a proverbial yawn, the long-running big block from Chevy was born purely out of necessity in 1958, a few years after the small block. With cars getting heavier ...

During the era when muscle cars reigned supreme, GM's Chevrolet division developed some of the greatest big-block V8s of all time. Follow us: Since the early 1960s, American carmakers started offering ...

"There's no replacement for displacement!" This has been the battle cry of big block fans everywhere, and for good reason. A Chevy big block brings the thunder, whether you're roasting tires with a ...

In the '60s, America developed some cool, advanced engines, such as Pontiac's overhead cam inline-6 or the jet-turbine in the Chrysler Turbine Car. Still, when push comes to shove, our first love is a ...

There are quite a few rare Chevy V8s. I could go on about '56 Corvette dual-quad 265s with Duntov cams, ZL-1s, L88s, L89 aluminum-headed 396s, and L84 fuel-injected 327s. Rarer still is the Z-11 427 W ...

The year was 1955. President Eisenhower resided in the White House, Rosa Parks refused to sit at the rear of the bus, and the Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in the World Series. The ...

Dim’s fascination with cars began when he was just six. Born into a family of car enthusiasts and racing drivers, he started learning basic mechanics and driving from an early age. While he loves ...