The General Motors engine family commonly called the LS series debuted in the then-new1997 model year C5 Corvette as the all aluminum LS1 V8. General Motors called it the Gen III small-block V8 and a ...

Between co-hosting Engine Masters and running Westech Performance, Steve Brule sees a lot of engines—everything from nearly stock small-blocks to boosted, blown, and nitrous-fed monsters. Of course, a ...

While some Gen IV engines do use cathedral port cylinder heads, pretty much all are of the later, LS6 design. By 2009, cathedral port use was mostly restricted to just the 5.3L engines while all but ...

How do you build a better mousetrap? The question was one asked of the Chevy engineers when it came time to upgrade the legendary small-block. The result of their hard work ultimately (after the LT1) ...

For years, Chevrolet has kept the Corvette on the cutting edge of publicly available performance innovation. The C6 Corvette was no exception. Introduced in 2005, with its new 6.0-liter LS2 producing ...

Does the new 1250-horsepower, 233-mph Corvette ZR1X get your pulse revving toward redline? In spring 1970, you’d likely have felt the same way about the Corvette LS7. That was the regular production ...