The 1998 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am marked a turning point for GM’s pony car, bringing the all-aluminum LS1 V8 into a platform ...

The General Motors 5.7 LS1 engine was a naturally aspirated small-block V8 engine with two valves per cylinder and the traditional pushrod valve gear and two valves per cylinder, a layout that has ...

We put both engines on the dyno to see which made more horsepower and torque. It didn’t go as planned. Over the past year, we assembled two very mild small-blocks aimed at the typical hot-rodder ...

ANSWERBack in 1955, you (or your grandpa) might have posed a very similar question: "Why does that new-fangled small-block Chevy make more peak power and torque at a higher rpm than my trusty Flathead ...

There are many important tools you'll need before beginning to assemble your first LS1. You already have the majority of these, and they are so generic they don't merit a mention here (various metric ...

Gravity affects space-time. That’s basically what Einstein was getting at, and it means that time on Earth passes differently than if you were, say, doing the Star Trek thing out in the vacuum 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 ...

We need not bore you with another diatribe about how the Chevy Vega was an unmitigated disaster vehicle for General Motors. But long story short, it's hard to market your cheap subcompact as a true ...

General Motors has always had a stable footing in the automotive industry, but its small-block engines, particularly the many generations of LS engines, gained a cult following. And it's pretty clear ...

You can LS swap almost anything. Enthusiasts have stuffed one of the General's LS engines in just about every kind of car you can think of: Volkswagen Beetles, old Porsches, DeLoreans, and everything ...

Sometimes folks take the “LS-swap all the things meme” literally, as is the case with the LS engine-powered Murray lawnmower featured in the following brief video. Clocking in at a little 2-and-a-half ...