Cooking with Gas: A Recipe for An Affordable 500 Horsepower LS1
When Chevrolet introduced the Gen III LS1 engine in the late 1990s, it couldn’t have envisioned how popular it and its successors, including the Gen IV and Gen V engines, […]
Devil in Disguise, Part 1: We Build a 383ci Stroker Small Block Chevy That Looks Like a Classic LT1 350
In the long history of the Gen I small block Chevy, there are a couple of high-water marks most everyone knows about. The first was the 375 horsepower, fuel injected […]
Build Your Own Budget 355ci Small Block Chevy, Part 1
The cost of even mild high performance engines is escalating—along with everything else in this post-Covid world. Even the traditional small block Chevy crate engines are no longer as kind […]
Mailbag: Performance Upgrades for a Daily-Driven El Camino with a Small Block Chevy
Q: I have a 1970 El Camino that will be used as a daily driver performance car. I have a Chevy 350 small block that I want to assemble with […]
Best of Both Worlds: Building a Gen 1/LS Hybrid with World Products’ Motown II LS Block (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: Mike Mavrigian must do nothing but build engines and write stories about them. We have visions of his shop, Birchwood Automotive, set deep in the woods with Mavrigian keeping little […]
Best of Both Worlds: Building a Gen 1/LS Hybrid with World Products’ Motown II LS Block (Part 1)
Editor’s Note: Mike Mavrigian must do nothing but build engines and write stories about them. We have visions of his shop, Birchwood Automotive, set deep in the woods with Mavrigian […]
Time to Rebuild (Part 1)? 7 Ways to Tell if Your Engine Needs a Rebuild Without Doing a Complete Teardown
Engine rebuilds come in many different varieties. Take a look at the vast array of engine rebuild kits available through Summit Racing, and you’ll see the contents vary from kit […]