It's only natural that the retro styling of the Gen 5 Camaro inspires modifications and personalization from an earlier era. That's why about 85 percent of the cars are rolling these days with ...

The increasing number of stroker crankshafts available is giving builders more options when planning a street-performance or race engine combination. The benefits of a stroker crankshaft, however, ...

You swap an engine when you want more power, and the GM LS range of engines is, with the Honda K-engines, the logical choice to achieve this. The LS engines are a range of small-block V8s made from ...

In our last installment, we set out to build a really big LS engine. How big? Well, in this case a rather voluminous 490 cubic inches. Yep, that’s big-block cubes in a small LS package. The first step ...

No matter what happens to the LS over the next decade, it's here to stay and will quickly replace the traditional small-block Chevy. I believe that the trend from Mouse to LS engines is happening much ...

Let's say you're building a custom car, but you're on a strict budget when it comes to the powertrain. What sort of crate ...

What is the best bang-for-buck V-8 crate engine you can buy in 2024? The correct answer is Chevy's tried and true swap platform, the “Gen IV” 6.2-liter LS3 V-8 engine. Why the LS3 when there are ...

Poet Robert Frost once wrote, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." In other words, you could do an LS swap, but there are so ...

Chevrolet started making small block V8 engines all the way back in the mid-1950s and has had many different generations in that time. For over 40 years, Chevrolet made different sizes and variations, ...