This American power unit has a track-record unlike any other modern V-8 engine.

If you stop and think about it, one engine has made motorsports in the United States for nearly 50 years. The Offy was a great engine, as was the four-cam Ford. Who can forget the mighty Mopar hemis?

Discover the origins and impact of Chevrolet's small-block V8, the engine that changed American car culture forever.

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 ...

In automotive nomenclature, small-block V8 engines are typically physically smaller than their big-block counterparts, hence the nickname. With some exceptions, the piston bores, stroke, cylinder head ...