Chevrolet’s Big Block V8 engines, affectionately known as “Rat Motors,” have a storied history rooted in the high-performance ...

Unlike most of its competitors, the Chevrolet Mark IV Rat motor was designed from the beginning to be a high-performance race engine, with the initial Daytona "Mystery Motor" configuration merely ...

Chevy's 454 engine sets the standard for all other big-blocks. Most fat-block development centers around the popular Rat motor; cams, heads, and intake designs are developed for it first, then ...

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, ...

While there is some contention surrounding who produced the first muscle car, we can all agree that Chevrolet was certainly in the mix of it all during America's earliest muscle car days. In an effort ...

The Chevy 454 V8 and the Pontiac 455 V8, two of the most iconic engines from the 1970s, have powered some of the most ...

Combining a head-turning yellow-and-silver color scheme with a thumping Big Block V8 under the hood, this 1968 Chevy Camaro Z/28 restomod was built to drive. Now, we’re checking it out in the ...

Chevy's Vortec 8100 — AKA the L18, AKA the Vortec 8.1 — was the last of The General's big block V8s, a line of engines that traced its lineage clear back to the fire-breathing muscle cars of the '60s ...

Chevrolet is no stranger to the big block, having built multiple during the golden era of the muscle car in the 1960s and 1970s. The automaker hasn't lost its way over the decades, either, debuting ...