E85-Fed 496-Inch Blown Big-Block Chevy Makes Over 1,000 HP On Westech Dyno. The E85 dropped intake temps by 85 degrees!

Unlike most of its competitors, the Chevrolet Mark IV Rat motor was designed from the beginning to be a high-performance race engine, with the initial Daytona "Mystery Motor" configuration merely ...

1,000 HP E85-Fed 496-Inch Blown Big-Block Chevy Walkaround on the Westech Dyno A walkaround of a blown 496-inch big-block Chevy engine warming up on Westech's Superflow 902 dyno.

Chevy's Vortec 8100 — AKA the L18, AKA the Vortec 8.1 — was the last of The General's big block V8s, a line of engines that traced its lineage clear back to the fire-breathing muscle cars of the '60s ...

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 ...