After two years of work, world's first C8 Corvette with a 8.1L Big Block engine finally hits the road. Watch it roar!

The Chrysler Corporation manufactured the last of its big block engines, the B-coded 400-cubic-inch V8, in the summer of 1978. The 400's disappearance ended a long run of Chrysler B-code engines ...

Chevrolet Nomad shown at the 2022 SEMA show is now selling with only test miles shown on the odometer, big block under the ...

The Big Block. Rat Motor. Call it what you will, we can now officially add a final epitaph to the long-running engine's gravestone: R.I.P. The final L18 big block rolled down the assembly line at ...

Once a staple of the hot rod and modification scenes, the era of the big block V8 engines has largely ended thanks to technological advances in the 1980s and 1990s. The result was 340 horsepower ...

Built as a drag racer prior to 1970, the Oldsmobile sports the meanest engine produced by Chevrolet in large numbers, and a ...

See All 60 Photos Anesi still had the old L88 427-inch big-block engine sitting in a crate, so Schwartz sent it over to Coil Racing Engines in McHenry, Illinois, to have it gone through and get ...

The drawback to a big-block's burly output was, and still is, the increased weight of the engine. While big blocks are a hoot for straight line shenanigans, a small block car is often a better all ...

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The difference between big-block and small-block engines is that the first category is bigger and the second ones are smaller. It seems like kind of a patronizing explanation, but that's the way ...