Half the crowd cheers, half winces — and both sides have a point.

It's hard to believe that General Motor's LS series of engines have been with us for 20 years. Introduced in 1997, performance enthusiasts quickly learned all this new design had to offer—these ...

LS V-8 engine swappers are a unique breed. As hot-rodders, they know the deep devotion to car brands that most folks in the hobby have. And yet, LS swappers are iconoclasts in microcosm. There's ...

LS swaps are nothing new -- if anything, the street performance world has been stuffing GM's finest big-cube V8 in just about anything that would take it for years now. Porsches, E36 BMWs, Mustangs, ...

The Chevy LS V8 is one of the most ubiquitous elements in car customization. Any forum post or Facebook group thread about engine trouble usually has at least one comment along the lines of: “Just LS ...

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 ...

The art of engine swapping goes all the way back to the earliest days of hot-rodding, and continues to be a staple within almost every genre of automotive customization. Whether the search is for more ...

1. GM LS1What: The LS1 is the all-aluminum version of GM's Gen III engine type found in performance Camaros, Corvettes, the GTO, and an increasing number of GM performance sedans. Why:The 5.7L LS1 is ...

The fourth-generation Cutlass Supreme embodies the Malaise Era’s drought of exciting cars. Oldsmobile even offered a V8 diesel back then, a mill that suffers from woeful reliability issues and poor ...

Taking on an automotive restoration or restomod is a process that can be simultaneously enjoyable and frustrating. Aside from the hours of work and significant expense, these projects require an ...

We need not bore you with another diatribe about how the Chevy Vega was an unmitigated disaster vehicle for General Motors. But long story short, it's hard to market your cheap subcompact as a true ...