Our core, purchased from AA Midwest, is a late-model truck Vortec or Gen II small-block 350. GM sufficiently refined the engine package to offer many improvements in quality.

Check out these First Generation 1996-1998 GM Vortec fuel-injected 350 Engine Power Upgrades, including exhaust, throttle body, ... The Vortec's two injectors spray fuel into a distribution block.

The Probe pistons are a two-valve relief design that, combined with the 64cc GMPP Vortec heads I planned to install, would give the small-block, which by now had been crowned "Z-Zilla", which I've ...

Trying to Reach New Heights With a Junkyard 350 Small-Block Chevy Engine. ... We would also include GM's L31 Vortec cast-iron units (PN 12529093) that debuted on light-truck engines in 1996.

The most cost-effective options are all small-block, like the Chevy Gen I 350, the 5.7L Vortec, and the SP350/357, Chevy's successor to their wallet-friendly HO crate engine.

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 ...

5.7L Vortec V8-Swapped 1974 Chevrolet K5 Blazer Is One Sweet Restomod. ... CKY184F141935 used to rock a 350 small block, a four-barrel carb, 160 ponies, and 245 pound-feet (332 Nm).