Factory horsepower ratings have never told the whole story, and nowhere was that more obvious than with a small-block Ford that quietly punched well above its weight. On paper, it looked like a modest ...

With the 5.0-liter Coyote V-8 engine currently sitting on the top rung of Ford’s street-performance ladder, let’s take this look back at OG small-block power, brought about through a big-bored and ...

The breakthrough of the 11R 227—a tip of the hat to the cylinder head’s 11-degree valve angle and fully CNC’d 227cc intake ports—is less revolutionary than evolutionary. It takes lessons learned from ...

In automotive nomenclature, small-block V8 engines are typically physically smaller than their big-block counterparts, hence the nickname. With some exceptions, the piston bores, stroke, cylinder head ...

There's something undeniably special about the sound of a racing engine at full throttle. In that moment, you can hear the result of decades of engineering expertise and the countless hours of work ...

It used to be, if you wanted a more powerful V8 engine, you'd have to build it bigger. It was a simple numbers game: Typically, the higher an engine's displacement, the higher its horsepower. This ...