There are many ways that automakers, particularly American ones, categorize the V8 engines they produce. They can essentially be put into one of two categories: big-block engines and small-block ...

Introduced at the height of the muscle car golden age and produced until the mid-1990s, the 460 was never offered by Ford in a high-performance variant. However, thanks to its bombproof construction, ...

Ford introduced the 385 big block V8 engine series in the late 1960s as it phased out the MEL (Mercury Edsel Lincoln) big block design. The 385 big block, named for the 3.85-inch crankshaft stroke ...

Big block engines might have been a product of the golden age of the muscle car, but these robust designs outlasted their high-performance progenitors by shifting over to the truck world, where their ...

Ford was actually ahead of schedule with development and testing of the calliope V-8 when the FIA put the kibosh on it. Three engines had been built and dyno-tested, and one of them even made it into ...

Dim’s fascination with cars began when he was just six. Born into a family of car enthusiasts and racing drivers, he started learning basic mechanics and driving from an early age. While he loves ...

The U.S. is known as the land of excess for many reasons. Take the automotive landscape, for example. You have big SUVs and even bigger engines. However, there was a time when engines in American cars ...

In the '60s, America developed some cool, advanced engines, such as Pontiac's overhead cam inline-6 or the jet-turbine in the Chrysler Turbine Car. Still, when push comes to shove, our first love is a ...