Chevrolet has built icons like the small-block V8 and the LS family, but one of its most surprising rising stars started life ...

Chevrolet's small-block V8 engine's simple, reliable design outperforms modern turbocharged rivals in terms of durability and power potential.

The internet is flooded with a seemingly endless sea of all sorts of engine swaps, from bold sky-bound LS-swapped airplanes to these less common LS-swap alternatives. While it's usually easy to take ...

Wind the clock back a decade, and asking why the LS remained the default swap choice would have been a pointless question. The answer was obvious — engines were cheap, plentiful, aftermarket support ...

The LS engine left factory production years ago, yet it still defines modern hot rodding and the engine-swap world. “LS-swap the world!” It sounds like a joke until you realize how many people take it ...

Chevrolet Performance has officially discontinued the LS9 Long Block V8 engine, marking the end of one of the most potent factory-engineered small-block crate engines ever offered by General Motors.

GM’s Chevrolet LS engines redefined the pushrod V8 to give us one of the most dominant performance platforms of the modern era. What we refer to today as the LS family of engines usually refers to the ...

I don’t always learn from my mistakes. Sometimes, curiosity gets the best of me. It has mostly led to problematic experiences. But it occasionally works out in my favor. Take for instance Gran Turismo ...

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 ...

LS1 engine design highlights and basic specs, why it’s such a popular swap, and a basic timeline, from the C5 Corvette to its use in the Australian HSV heroes. The General Motors 5.7 LS1 engine was a ...

It’s no secret that LS engines have exploded in popularity over the past decade, as 4.8-liter, 5.3-liter, 6.0-liter, and 6.2-liter engines are plentiful, cheap, and strong. They also have easy-to-run ...