In the Aug. '09 issue, Ted Toki and the guys at Westside Performance stuffed a 4.00-inch crank into a 350 small block Chevy as an alternative to the same old 383 build. While the primary point of the ...

We’re moving right along with our Summit Racing 427-ci small-block Chevy build. We started with a bare SPC engine block, and we’re building it from the bottom up. We left off last time with an ...

Corvette buyers are once again being invited into the heart of the car, with Chevrolet reviving its factory engine build experience for the latest generation of high performance models. After several ...

Building engines and having the ability to pull them on the dyno is by far one of our cooler moments as automotive scribes. In this instance, rather than doing a single buildup we assigned each ...

Brett T. Evans has more than a decade of experience driving, writing about, and evaluating automobiles. His early career comprised writing about pre- and post-war classic cars, as well as late-model ...

When the gearheads of the world get together to talk about the most powerful vehicles from the early muscle car era, those sporting the more notable big block engines of the day tend to take up most ...

Anyone with a custom car project is likely familiar with “scope creep,” or at least the concept behind the term. Scope creep is when a project starts small but goes big, slowly growing in scope over ...

You want big, reliable power without wrecking your wallet, and this article shows five crate […] ...

The Chevrolet 302 small-block V8 engine was developed for the Camaro Z/28 to use in the Trans-Am racing series. The 302 cubic-inch V8 engine's size was determined by Trans-Am rules, which mandated a ...

This 1971 Chevrolet Nova took ages to complete, but look at it now. It features a hardtop, which took 900 hours to engineer and weld onto the car, a front end that took 600 hours to design and install ...