Project Pure Poncho is a 455ci engine that is being bored and stroked to 467 ci and built to test parts and combinations. Its purpose is to help our readers make decisions for their applications ...

Adding displacement is one of the simplest and most effective means of adding horsepower to any engine, let alone an LT1 or LS1 that are both highly responsive to modification. Thankfully GM has ...

Magnesium has found use in the broader automotive industry since the 1920s for a variety of applications, ranging from chassis to powertrain construction. Many vehicles utilize magnesium and its ...

Let's face it. Pretty much anybody who knows a torque wrench from a Torx socket can put together a small-block V-8 making 300 ponies. That formula has been around for, probably, half a century. But ...

As any dedicated Bow-Tie fan knows, the ZL1 engine was a special, all-aluminum version of the Rat motor. That means the block and cylinder heads. In its day, a few were slipped into production ...

Your car's internal combustion engine relies on a huge number of large, small, and oddly-shaped parts. One of the biggest and most important parts of your motor is the engine block or cylinder block, ...