Sometimes a good story has no romance—no big horsepower or awe-inspiring torque. Some good stories are all about the details that the big-power stories overlook. But if you play with engines like we ...

Ron Strayhorn is an ambitious hot rodder. By day he's a mild-mannered executive running GM's western region service and parts operations, but when he's not on the clock, he's scheming new and more ...

The venerable LS engine swap is a meme for one very good reason – the LS V8 is a great engine. With its relatively low weight, compact size, big power potential, and a seemingly endless supply of ...

You swap an engine when you want more power, and the GM LS range of engines is, with the Honda K-engines, the logical choice to achieve this. The LS engines are a range of small-block V8s made from ...

So why would you want to build an LS engine? Because they are cheap horsepower and easy to build. Over a million trucks were made with V-8-powered LS powerplants since 1998. Tons of aftermarket ...

Third Time’s A Charm: More than 20 years ago, GM’s all-new Gen III V-8 launched a new era of power, efficiency, and respect Talk about a quantum leap in technology and performance? This is a story at ...

Builders interested in upgrading their project vehicle’s LS V8 engine with a big, bad blower should check out FAST’s new supercharger and cam power package. Recently revealed at the ongoing SEMA360 ...

Chevrolet introduced the legendary LS V8 engine to the world way back in 1997 as the engine powering the new C5 Corvette. That first engine, the LS1, was a 5.7 liter, aluminum block, pushrod V8 that, ...

Turbos and superchargers have made extra power almost easy to come by. Thanks to them, even tiny four-cylinders can make the type of numbers that used to be reserved for big-displacement engines. That ...

When the all-new fifth-generation Chevrolet Corvette had its premiere in 1997, it packed a likewise all-new LS1 V8 engine making 345 horsepower and 350 pound-feet of torque — which was enough to ...