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The 302 engine, which put out 290 hp and 290 lb-ft in the road-going Camaro Z/28, was created by putting the crankshaft from a 283 ci into a 327 cubic inch block. From there, forged pistons, a ...
Last weekend was a good one for my Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle, as I cracked into its AMC 360 V8 engine. Here’s a look at how I removed those eight pistons. Latest ...
The big block V8 is a motoring legend, the ultimate flex of old-school American muscle. The Chrysler 400 was Mopar's last dance with this iconic design.
By Rick Voegelin The reports of a radical new small-block V8 targeted at NASCAR stock car racing ... yielding a stout 15:1 compression ratio with a flat-top piston in a typical 358ci NASCAR engine.
AMC V8 Block Engine - Identity Crisis. A Small-Block That Thinks It's A Big-Block? ... and fly-cut the pistons for piston-to-valve clearance, they would have a low-dollar 12:1 engine.
The amount of fuel an engine uses is determined by a lot of different factors. It's mostly true that V8s use more fuel than ...
Excluding the LT that we’ve already covered and the LS before it, no fewer than 18 small-block crate engines are listed on Chevrolet.com at press time. Clicking on the 350/265 Base and 350/290 ...
If the V8 engine block crowd funding campaign successfully raises its required pledge goal and the project progresses smoothly, worldwide shipping is expected to take place sometime around May 2022.
Small Block team assistant chief engineer, Dustin Gardner, puts it another way: The LT6 is a 5.5-liter V8 that effectively breathes as much air as a 6.0-liter V8. Chevrolet Rear view of 2023 ...
That first engine, the LS1, was a 5.7 liter, aluminum block, pushrod V8 that, in Corvette trim, produced around 350 horsepower at 5600 RPM. The next year, in '98, the LS found its way into GM's F ...
And for all you engine geeks out there (like me!), this big block’s firing order is a familiar 1-5-4-8-6-3-7-2, identical to the 5.0-liter Coyote and even Ford’s very first V8 engine, the ...