In this day in age, GM realized it needs to be clever if it wants its V8 to last long after the iconic Hemi engine dies out.

Aluminum engine blocks don't weigh as much as their cast iron counterparts, but they are just as subject to the risks of ...

J-B Weld is a multipurpose two-part epoxy that can be used to fix just about everything. Will it get the job done on a ...

Your average car engine operates at very high temperatures, which makes sense since it relies on combustion to generate power. Just the top of a piston in the engine block can reach 700 degrees ...

If you see someone pouring concrete into their engine block, it's not what it looks like. No, they're not trying to destroy it — with high-performance engines, pouring in concrete can actually do it ...

Cracked block? There aren't many two-word combinations that send a shiver up a car guy's spine. In most cases that means the block is DOA, and it's worth its weight in scrap only. Sometimes there is ...

A lot of people were celebrating when white smoke over the Vatican meant there was a new pope in town -– and that included plenty of gearheads with great ideas about what the new guy should use as his ...

Have you ever broken down the costs associated with getting a new race engine built? Or even getting an old engine rebuilt? If you have and were surprised by how much it cost just to prepare the block ...

When Jaguar needed a V6 engine, instead of completely returning to the drawing board, it instead made a V8 engine into a V6 ...

Cylinders aren't the only feature that contribute to an engine's energetic output, but for good reason, they're the one we've settled on as shorthand. While it's just as accurate to say Corvettes have ...

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 ...

The be-all-end-all pushrod V8, the Chevrolet small block is the second V8 engine developed by the Golden Bowtie after the Series D of 1917. The original was discontinued in 1918 because it made ...