We put both engines on the dyno to see which made more horsepower and torque. It didn’t go as planned. Over the past year, we assembled two very mild small-blocks aimed at the typical hot-rodder ...

Those loyal readers who follow Super Chevy will remember our two-part Legendary Small-Blocks dyno series. It included such great names as the L76, the LT-1 and the Z/28's 302. We followed up part one ...

Roshan Poptani of BoostDistrict has recently strapped a 2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray to a dynamometer. Before upgrading the small-block V8 with a pair of turbos, the big kahuna decided to show us how ...

Dynamometer tests are used to measure a car's torque and rpm response. But how do they get that information? And how reliable is what they get?

Discover the story behind Chevrolet's highly secretive Mystery Motor, and why its potential never got fulfilled.

The continuation of this series came about after a letter from reader John Tremul requesting we take a look at another set of serious small-blocks. The primary difference between these and the ...

Jim Homick, viaCarCraft.com: I am building a 454 Chevy with a D1SC ProCharger. It will be used primarily for the street, but I will be bringing it to the strip. Which style of cylinder head should I ...

It's hard to overstate the importance of the Chevy small block V8. We've called it "the most important V8 ever," and we still think we were underselling it. If you were driving a Chevy anytime in the ...