The venerable LS engine swap is a meme for one very good reason – the LS V8 is a great engine. With its relatively low weight, compact size, big power potential, and a seemingly endless supply of ...

Muscle cars from any era, custom or otherwise, usually have one thing in common, and that's the V8 engine. Famous examples include the 302 from Ford or the 440 Hemi. However, we bet nobody has ever ...

As far as pony cars go, few nameplates have as much cachet as the Chevrolet Camaro. Introduced in 1966 for the 1967 model year, the Camaro was late to the game — Ford and Plymouth had already released ...

Larry Woo was busy making imports go faster when the V-8 muscle car bug bit him hard. It's not that he found the imports to be slow, he just realized that there's no replacement for power generated by ...

Among the go-to engines for affordable, reliable V8 swaps, you can't really beat General Motors' LS small-block engine. You can find the things in everything from Mazda RX-7s to classic Minis. A new ...

Chevrolet's most iconic vehicles ever made include industry legends like the Corvette, Camaro, and Bel Air. The famous bowtie logo has been around for over a century, and Chevy's LS series of V8 ...

General Motors began using LS V8 engines in its muscle car lineup in 1997 with the introduction of the 5.7-liter LS1, the first of its third-generation small block design. That first iteration, used ...

When the all-new fifth-generation Chevrolet Corvette had its premiere in 1997, it packed a likewise all-new LS1 V8 engine making 345 horsepower and 350 pound-feet of torque — which was enough to ...

If you’re going to get a first-generation Chevrolet Camaro, just go for a 1969 model right from the get-go, because those already feature a sportier appearance than any of their predecessors. Sure, ...