All-aluminum small-blocks have mystique. Even today, when production V-8s come with aluminum blocks straight from the showroom, there is still something magical about an all-alloy Gen I Mouse motor.

ZedSled, our project 1978 Chevrolet Camaro is receiving an LS conversion, specifically a 6.0 LQ4 truck engine, an iron-block version of the LS2. The six-bolt main block is stronger, but it's 70 pounds ...

During an era when a cast iron block was the main ingredient for building mass-produced internal combustion engines, General Motors' Buick division unleased an all-aluminum V8 that revolutionized the ...

Chevrolet General Manager Ed Cole was always "looking over the horizon" for new technology. In 1957, Cole commanded his engineers to start working on a line of 1960 Chevrolets that would all use a ...

In the early 1960s, an aluminum performance engine was as exotic as fuel injection, independent suspension and four-wheel disc brakes. The first mention of an all-aluminum engine for a Corvette was in ...