Go inside GM’s Performance and Racing Center to check out the new 1,004-hp crate engine’s revolutionary cylinder heads.

It's not unreasonable to say the Chevrolet small-block V-8 changed the face of automotive engine history. Innovative and ...

Chevy's Vortec 8100 — AKA the L18, AKA the Vortec 8.1 — was the last of The General's big block V8s, a line of engines that traced its lineage clear back to the fire-breathing muscle cars of ...

Vortec 4200, or more colloquially, the Ameri-Barra. The latter draws on a comparison to the mighty Barra I6 that Ford sold for years in Australia. Tuners love that thing, and given the GM engine ...

GM engineers used lessons taken from LS intake and exhaust manifold designs and applied them to the 8100 Vortec. Gone are the old 7.4-liter engine's mix of short and long intake ports and Siamese ...

However, one GM platform big block Vortec engine held its own ... GM also added an LS-style intake manifold to the 496 to cement its footing in the modern world while taking the title as one ...

The 5.3 Vortec engine is manufactured by the General Motors Company ... Oil pump $100 to $200 (≈1.7 days working without days off at $15/hour) Intake manifold $400 to $600 (≈1 week of salary time at ...

including the Chevy 5.7L Vortec, is engineered to deliver more torque, horsepower, as well as engine response and improve fuel efficiency. It has an overhead valve configuration coming with 2 valves ...

Lingenfelter has just released a carbon fiber intake manifold for Chevy C8 Corvette Stingray coupe models powered by the 6.2-liter LT2 V8. The five-layer carbon fiber upper is paired with a glass ...

An intake manifold is an integral part of providing power to the engine as it distributes the airflow accordingly. Since an intake manifold doesn’t take hot gasses from the engine, some manufacturers ...

The Vortec 5.3L V8 LMG was an engine produced by General Motors for full-size SUVs. Displacing 5.3 liters in a V8 configuration, the LMG was part of the Vortec (Generation IV Small Block) engine ...