The Ford and Chevy 427 big blocks sit at the center of one of performance history’s fiercest rivalries, yet the two engines followed very different paths from the dyno cell to the winner’s circle. I ...

From the March 1965 issue of HOT ROD: The 396ci big-block Chevy had just dropped, and we were justifiably excited by its big valves, high-flow ports, and 425 horsepower. Chevrolet’s 427 engine that ...

The Corvette Z06 427 arrived as a focused, track-bred evolution of Chevrolet’s long-running sports car, pairing a big-cube V8 ...

Allegedly capable of spitting out over 600 naturally aspirated horses, this experimental big-block V8 never got a proper chance to shine but still became an American engineering legend. During the ...

Although it's more than half a century old, the L88 remains one of the mightiest V8s that ever powered a Corvette. For most people, there's nothing more American than apple pie, but for gearheads, ...

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

More. Hot-rodding is all about the quest for more, especially when it comes to horsepower. A while back we told you the tale of how Lingenfelter Performance figured out how to stroke the LT2 from the ...

Not to sound like a parody of Jerry Seinfeld here, but what's the deal with all these identical-displacement V8s from different manufacturers? We've talked about the Ford 427 vs. the Chevy 427 before, ...