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 ...

Last year Summit Racing Equipment released its SPC small-block Chevy ... into the big leagues when I turned 16. By that time my life was heavily influenced by magazines like HOT ROD and Car ...

While those big-block competitors have fallen by the wayside, the Chevy 454 soldiered on in production ... forged-steel crankshaft and connecting rods, as well as forged-aluminum pistons.

Chevy's Vortec 8100 — AKA ... Descended from the legendary big block 454, an engine that has powered countless muscle cars and hot rods throughout the decades, it debuted in 2001 as the ...