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Tips for installing a modern GM V8 into an older car or truck

LS engine swaps are so common these days that it’s easy to get complacent about the project if you’ve never attempted it.
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Chevy's 327 Proved You Don't Need A Big Block To Win Races

American automotive performance in the 1950s was a simple recipe. If you wanted to go faster, you didn't optimize what you had; you just added more to it. More displacement, more iron, more horsepower ...
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GM's V8 Engines Are Reportedly About To Get Bigger

GM is developing an all-new sixth-generation small-block V8 family, with strong indications it will launch in two displacements: 5.7L and 6.6L. The 5.7L version is aimed at volume models like the ...
Autoblog

GM’s New 6.6L V8 Engine Could Push Base Corvette Past 500 Horsepower

View post: Walmart Is Selling a 'Heavy-Duty' $541 Carport for Only $247, and Shoppers Love Its 'Durability and Construction' Like Stellantis with its Hemi V8, General Motors has no intention of ...
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Five Of The Most Powerful Chevy Small Block Engines Ever Made

Let's define "small-block" so no one will get mad (people will still get mad). General Motors may call the Gen-III to Gen-V LS and LT V8s "small-blocks" in marketing materials, but even Chevrolet's ...
autoevolution

GM's Next Small-Block V8 Engine Family Allegedly Includes 5.7L and 6.6L Options

The next-generation small block is just around the corner, apparently. Expected to debut for the 2027 model year in light-duty pickup trucks and the C8-generation Corvette, said engine family could ...
TopSpeed

Chevy Will Never Stop Using Its Small-Block LT V8 — And That’s A Good Thing

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...
Hot Rod

Turning Tricks: Adding a Trick Flow Small-Block Chevy Top-End to Our Summit Racing 427 Stroker

We’re moving right along with our Summit Racing 427-ci small-block Chevy build. We started with a bare SPC engine block, and we’re building it from the bottom up. We left off last time with an ...
The Drive

Check Out This Weird SOHC-Converted Chevy Small Block for Sale

If the only thing holding you back from a GM V8 swap is some sort of social-media-hardened dislike for overhead-valve (OHV, aka pushrod) motor designs, Bring a Trailer may have just the thing for you: ...
Autoblog

What’s Wrong With GM’s V8?: Teardown Exposes Shocking Engine Damage

The American automaker’s ubiquitous small-block L87 V8 isn’t having the best year so far. General Motors began 2025 facing a major issue: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ...
The Drive

GM’s Next-Gen Small-Block V8 Will Arrive in 2027

A couple of years back, General Motors announced that it was investing about half a billion dollars into its Flint engine plant to support production of its next-generation small-block V8. This week, ...
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Next-Gen GM Small Block: What Should GM Call The Truck Engines?

When it comes to engine family branding, GM has a few different names kicking around. Some of the more notable examples include Duramax, used currently for The General’s diesel engines; Vortec, ...