The Ford and Chevy 427 big blocks sit at the center of one of performance history’s fiercest rivalries, yet the two engines followed very different paths from the dyno cell to the winner’s circle. I ...

The ZL1 is pretty much an aluminum version of the 427 L88 big-block with open-chamber heads and was originally planned for the Corvette. The aluminum block used cast-iron sleeves (retained with a 1/16 ...

American carmakers in the 1960s chased trends like Metallica cutting their hair. Seemingly, every brand had to have a large displacement V8, even producing ...