We have noticed many early-model custom-truck Ford engines substituted with Chevrolet muscle. Personally, I feel it is disrespectful to Ford's heritage; it's a slap in Henry's face. Why would a person ...

Just last week, Chevrolet Performance unveiled the ZZ632, the biggest, most-powerful crate engine the brand has ever offered. Now, we have new pricing information on the monster motor, which starts at ...

The engine crate market is not for the faint-hearted. It's a place where enthusiasm, power, and mechanical complexity all converge to allow car geeks to turn an empty engine bay into something special ...

Factory power levels over 500 hp are now so common that even the once ballyhooed 707-hp Hellcat no longer gets regular coverage from big media because, well, there are just so many more powerful cars ...

Long before the muscle car wars, Chevrolet was already experimenting with V8 power, offering an overhead-valve engine as early as 1917. Ford’s 1932 flathead V8 often gets the spotlight for igniting ...

Chevy will celebrate 65 years of the Small Block engine in 2020, and to help kickstart the anniversary, the Bow Tie brand dropped a brand-new Chevrolet crate engine at the 2019 SEMA Show in Las Vegas.

General Motors’ attempt at taking down the Dodge Hellcrate with the C7 ZR1-derived, 755-horsepower LT5 crate engine didn’t exactly go as planned. Sure, the LT5 was smaller, cheaper, and more powerful ...

While most automakers rely on forced induction or electrification to generate outputs exceeding a thousand horsepower, Chevrolet has developed a V-8 crate engine that relies on good ol' displacement ...

I started learning to work on cars in the late 1970s by helping my stepdad turn salvaged mid-1960s Chevy Chevelles into street-stock-class race cars. Throughout that period, I had my hands on a number ...

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 ...

Photographers have an oft-used saying: "It's not the camera, it's the photographer." We would like to adapt that saying to the world of performance engines, ergo: "It's not the engine, it's the ...

Chevrolet today introduced the largest and most powerful crate engine in company history. The ZZ632/1000 naturally aspirated V8 engine produces 1004 horsepower and 876 pound-feet of torque. "This is ...