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

The Pontiac and Ford 428 cubic-inch engines ruled the late '60s and early '70s, but they also share a dirty little secret you need to know about.

We suspect that for just about anyone firing up a new engine on a dyno for the first time, the anticipation is something akin to buying a lottery ticket—you're not sure what to expect, but hope for ...

The Ford 385 Series V8 engine, also known as the "Lima" engine by many automotive enthusiasts, is a big-block powerplant that Ford designed and manufactured from 1968 through 1997. Produced in ...

GM divisions Pontiac and Chevrolet each produced 400 cubic-inch small-block V8s with similar bore-to-stroke ratios. Ford made one as well, but its block was very different from Chevy's in nearly every ...