The mid 1990s Chevrolet Impala SS LT1 arrived at a moment when big American sedans were supposed to be fading away, yet it ...

Chevrolet is a brand with many iconic nameplates, and LT1 is one of them. Rather than referring to a specific car, LT1 instead relates to a particular engine -- of which three generations have been ...

For the 1966 model year, Chevrolet offered two big-block V8 options for the Corvette. The most interesting of the lot is the 427 with a compression ratio of 11 to one, which develops 425 horsepower on ...

General Motors has been producing small block V6 and V8 engines since the mid-1950s, and over the last 70 years of their existence, they have been through a great number of changes. The biggest shift ...

Adding displacement is one of the simplest and most effective means of adding horsepower to any engine, let alone an LT1 or LS1 that are both highly responsive to modification. Thankfully GM has ...

Chevrolet introduced the legendary LS V8 engine to the world way back in 1997 as the engine powering the new C5 Corvette. That first engine, the LS1, was a 5.7 liter, aluminum block, pushrod V8 that, ...

We thought there might be a riot when we pulled up to the GM Tonawanda Engine Plant in Buffalo, New York. The silver 2SS Camaro that we parked in the circular drive was immediately swarmed by ...

Redesigned for the 1968 model year, the Elky was originally offered with anything from a straight-six lump to a big-block V8. This particular example of the breed is rocking the small-block engine ...