Gaining more power from a proven combination can be tricky. It's easy to do too much, forgetting that "bigger is better" isn't always true.In this case, we were looking to extract more power-and ...

Ford produced good small-block heads for a few years (1963-66) before altering them to meet emissions requirements. Most of these changes occurred in the exhaust ports, thus performance suffered.

In the 1980s General Motors shifted away from small holes in the cylinder head and pushrod guide plates instead to what they refer to as “guided” rocker arms. These stamped rocker arms use two small ...

You would think with as much attention as the small-block Chevy has received over the past 30 years there would be nothing left to say. Wrong. Techniques change over time, and some tricks that were ...

When it comes to engine building, cylinder heads are of utmost importance. Here's why Chevy's small-block Vortec heads could ...

In the early-'90s, GM introduced the Second-Generation LT1 small-block. It featured reverse-flow cooling and an aluminum cylinder head with a new port configuration. In essence, the company created ...

The 1960s were a time that saw muscle cars with the best names and automakers racing for horsepower supremacy. While drag racers often turned to large displacement big-block engines for power, others ...