The Chevrolet Caprice Classic with the big block 454 was born into a changing American car market, where full-size comfort was colliding with new pressures on fuel and emissions. For collectors today, ...

The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 LS6 arrived at a moment when Detroit was locked in an escalating horsepower contest, and ...

Big-money engines are cool. We all drool over them, but the reality is that for a good street engine, there’s such a thing as too much power. For most working-class people, anything over 500 hp is ...

Available in factory-built models for only two years, this iconic powerhouse is still the largest V8 ever fitted into a mass-produced Chevy passenger car. The American car-buying public's appetite for ...

Chevrolet produced 37,502 Corvettes in 1974, the last year when a big-block (the big-block, in fact) was fitted to the iconic sportscar. The 454 was America’s Sportscar’s farewell to the era when gas ...

When you think about classic Chevy muscle cars, there are two models that immediately come to mind for just about everyone - The 1969 Chevy Camaro and the 1970 Chevy Chevelle. What gave these cars ...

"There's no replacement for displacement!" This has been the battle cry of big block fans everywhere, and for good reason. A Chevy big block brings the thunder, whether you're roasting tires with a ...

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 ...

Chevrolet is known for producing a lineup of powerful small block Chevy crate engines. However, the biggest Chevy crate engines include big block varieties as well. Chevrolet's largest displacement ...