For many classic truckers the term small-block means just one thing: the venerable little V-8 from Chevrolet. Certainly one of the most popular performance engines ever produced, the small-block Chevy ...

Engine builders generally operate on fairly straightforward parameters. For the NHRA/IHRA class racer the objective is to achieve maximum performance within the rules. Likewise, contestants in the ...

When something works as well as the Windsor-based small-block Ford V-8, you just can't throw it on the heap of history when the next great thing comes out. From its earliest version in 221ci form for ...

In 1958, Ford introduced its new FE series of V8 engines (short for Ford-Edsel) to replace the short-lived Y-block — itself a replacement for the truly antiquated flathead V8s. The FE was a tremendous ...

Twenty years ago, the idea of ordering a complete engine for a vintage Mustang was pretty much absurd. First of all, it was a lot cheaper to rebuild or even have someone else rebuild the original ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

There is sort of a romantic notion that every muscle car in the Golden Age had either a 426 Hemi, 428 Super Cobra Jet, or 454 ...

Ford has a long, storied history of putting out powerful V8 engines. Ford is the company that brought us mass manufacturing ...

Ford is the company that brought us mass manufacturing and with that, more affordable cars. It's safe to say that company truly popularized the car as a form of transport for everybody. However, since ...

A gentleman by the name of George Stirrat and eight of his colleagues started the development of the Ford small block in 1960. This group of engineers – internally referred to as Canadian X Project – ...