GM has turned out a ton of variations of their venerable LS series of engines, and one block that's easy to find and fairly cheap to buy is the 6.0L iron version. These blocks are perfect for boring ...

The first Iron Age flickered out a millennium or two ago, but its automotive equivalent is still going strong. Well, if not strong, it's at least still going. Dodge, Ram, and other automakers still ...

In the first years of the Civil War, two ships later called ironclads, battled it out in the waters of Hampton Roads, Virginia. The USS Monitor and the CSS Merrimack (which was actually named the CSS ...

Adding displacement is one of the simplest and most effective means of adding horsepower to any engine, let alone an LT1 or LS1 that are both highly responsive to modification. Thankfully GM has ...

A teardown of a GM L96 V8 shows how ignored warning signs and poor repairs can turn even a famously durable engine into scrap ...

General Motors' LS engines and Ford's small-block V8s are some of the most famous motors in auto history, but can you combine ...

Back in June, the Blue Oval launched the Godzilla as a crate engine with similar output figures to the powerplant in the Super Duty line of F-Series pickup trucks. The biggest of the Big Three ...

If you are new to the LS scene or haven't spent much time online, or at events, or near other LS owners, you might have missed the first or second "big bangs." Originally, the big bang test was ...

ANSWERBack in 1955, you (or your grandpa) might have posed a very similar question: "Why does that new-fangled small-block Chevy make more peak power and torque at a higher rpm than my trusty Flathead ...