Despite having similar displacements, the small-block Chevy 383 and the big-block Mopar 383 have some interesting differences between each other.

Since its introduction in 1955, the small-block Chevrolet has been celebrated in word, picture, song, dyno test, and bank deposit. For over 30 years, it has reigned as the nation's most popular and ...

Chevy's double hump heads in its small-block V8 engines were powerful and capable, featuring closed-chamber designs that ...

General Motors has spent decades refining overhead-valve V8s while much of the industry pivoted to dual overhead cam designs, turbocharging, and downsized blocks. I set out to understand why Chevrolet ...

I worked as a machinist in an automotive machine shop in the early 1980s before my career took me into the aerospace sector. The shop's high volume of mundane engine rebuilds and turning brake drums ...