A couple of decades ago, you could easily pick the boneyard for an inexpensive engine core that would polish up nicely with a little cleaning and some machine work. Chrysler made millions of big-block ...

If you're looking for a budget-friendly small-block Chevy V8 for your next pickup truck project, look no further than these five crate engines available for less than $4,000. When thinking about crate ...

We've covered many engine stories in these pages, a number of them with the respected Sacramento, California, engine shop, Smeding Performance. Since the number of actual "steps" involved in putting a ...

Engine building doesn’t have to be expensive. You can actually save some major coin if you’re willing to invest a bit of time and elbow grease. The engine in this 1991 Mustang GT has suffered long ...

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 ...

The small-block Chevrolet engine is 70 years old in 2025 and what better way to celebrate one of the most influential engines of all time than by building one? The Hemmings team is taking it one step ...

By the late 1970s, American performance looked like it had been left in the rearview mirror. After a decade of tightening ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

In automotive nomenclature, small-block V8 engines are typically physically smaller than their big-block counterparts, hence the nickname. With some exceptions, the piston bores, stroke, cylinder head ...

However, Ford was thinking in another direction, deciding to focus on efficiency and balance. The result was the small-block V8, a compact, lightweight engine that proved you didn't need massive ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...