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Designing an engine is expensive, so it's no surprise that brands occasionally borrow tech. Sometimes, however, those engines ...
Over here at HOT ROD we love a crazy idea, so when we saw a guy, Ken Hutchison, on social media starting to figure out how to slice and dice an LS head to work on a 300-inch straight-six Ford engine ...
It wasn't that long ago that the words "crate engine" were tainted by an element of shame. What kind of hot rodder buys an engine that's already built? "A true gearhead builds his own engine" was the ...
Discover the top 7 most popular engine swaps, from versatile Japanese options to powerful American V8s and unique outliers.
There is a war out there in LS land, and it’s being waged between the nitrous and turbo camps. If you follow the usual build pattern of most LS owners, the first modification is a camshaft and ...
In the LS world, the little 4.8L is the Rodney Dangerfield of the bunch. Because of its size it just gets no respect. Even the 5.3L—just 0.5 liters larger—gets all the press, to say nothing of the ...
With prices of classic muscle cars like the Dodge Charger or Chevy's Chevelle SS heading for the stratosphere, a common way to cobble your own together on the cheap is to purchase a lowly six-cylinder ...
Garrett – Advancing Motion has something special lined up for SEMA this year. The curvaceous black-and-white beauty featured here is a 2015 Lamborghini Huracán, which was rebuilt from the ground up ...
The Mustang GT350's "Voodoo" V-8 isn't the only piece of American muscle capable of rocking a flat-plane crank. The owner of this last-gen Corvette Z06 decided it would be a good idea to equip a ...
Over the years, General Motors has employed several eight-cylinder engine designs ranging from the inline "Straight-8" to the current LT1 V8. However, many agree that the small-block LS engines were ...
There’s an ever-expanding list of cars seeing their gasoline-burning engines replaced with electric power. It’s a trend that is expanding almost as quickly as manufacturers’ use of electric motors for ...