Real-World Street Big-Block. We pull the 402 out of the AMD Chevelle and set out to build a realistic big-block for street and strip fun. Building a big-block these days is a far cry from what it was ...

Flow. For an engine, it's the key to getting maximum possible output from your internal combustion horsepower-maker. Without it, your engine, whether it be a small- or big-block, is nothing more than ...

Westech Performance tests a hydraulic-roller pump-gas Procharged BBC. Steve Brule is a busy guy with co-hostingEngine Mastersand running Westech Performance, but he still finds time to send us over ...

We’re not talking Ford Mustangs, Plymouth Barracudas, or the Chevrolet Chevelle SS here. The well-known names in classic muscle car performance were almost always associated with big-block engines, be ...

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 ...

The Big-block Mopar crate engine goes by many names. You may know it as the 383, 400, or 440. Racers call it the "wedge" to distinguish it from the ever-popular Hemi. Chrysler experts alternately call ...

The V8 engine configuration has long been favored for its inherently favorable qualities of being well-balanced, relatively compact, and with a high capacity for power output. Shortly after the turn ...

"There's no replacement for displacement!" This has been the battle cry of big block fans everywhere, and for good reason. A Chevy big block brings the thunder, whether you're roasting tires with a ...