An $888 million investment will make the GM Tonawanda plant the second facility confirmed to produce GM's sixth-generation ...

Internal combustion engines are complex pieces of machinery, and it's tough to learn exactly how they work with written explanations and diagrams alone. This see-through V8 replica is the perfect ...

The Chrysler Corporation manufactured the last of its big block engines, the B-coded 400-cubic-inch V8, in the summer of 1978. The 400's disappearance ended a long run of Chrysler B-code engines ...

Decades before EcoBoost technology was introduced, the company was experimenting with small-block engines for its vehicles. An early fruit of this labor was the Ford 221 V8, which first arrived in ...

Chevrolet introduced the legendary LS V8 engine to the world way back in 1997 as the engine powering the new C5 Corvette. That first engine, the LS1, was a 5.7 liter, aluminum block, pushrod V8 ...

For the 5.2-liter V8, Ford brought the process in-house to Essex Engine Plant. It also refined the technique, resulting in a lighter engine block with improved durability. “The cylinder walls of ...

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 ...

Though not designed for high performance, Ford's first overhead-valve (OHV) V8 was a solid engine. These days, when it's equipped with modern tech, the Y-Block can make some respectable output ...