Perception is reality. Read enough online stories, and you would think every hot rod out there is rockin' a 700-hp high-end engine under the hood. The truth is that most cars are putting out anywhere ...

Lucky you, you're about to do something that only comes around once in any hot rodder's life: building your first engine. You see, if you stay at this game long enough, you reach a point when the ...

While Pontiac's option may not have lasted nearly as long, the Chevrolet 350 served both its eponymous brand, as well as ...

These days, recycling is all the rage. Airplanes get ground up and turned into beer cans, which eventually get melted down and formed into some other widget we just can't live without. In a way, hot ...

In the January 1999 issue, we challenged ourselves to build an engine capable of putting a 3,300-pound car into the 13-second zone for $500 ("Getting Away with It"). We stipulated that the engine ...

The Chevy Small Block V8 engine is one of the most iconic and important powerplants ever created, with countless iterations and applications offered since 1955. Now, we’re watching an impressive ...

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 ...

All small-block V8s we have today can trace their roots to the 350-cu.in. from the 1960s. Introduced under the L-48 codenamed in the 1967 Camaro, the 5.7-liter blunderbuss has been reimagined as a ...

Hagerty has a knack for putting together some fantastic time-lapse engine rebuild videos, and its latest, featuring a 60-year-old Chevy Stovebolt straight-six, is no different. This engine was pulled ...