Ford’s Boss 302 V8 arrived as a purpose-built weapon for road racing, yet it ended up redefining what a small-block could be on both track and street. By blending high-rpm cylinder heads with a ...

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 ...

Outlines how to remove, dissassemble, recondition, rebuild and replace a small-block engine?all in step-by-step clarity. Covers models: 262, 265, 283, 302, 305, 307, 327, 350 and 400 cid engines.

GM divisions Pontiac and Chevrolet each produced 400 cubic-inch small-block V8s with similar bore-to-stroke ratios. Ford made one as well, but its block was very different from Chevy's in nearly every ...

The Ford 351 Windsor is one of the most popular V8 engines Ford Motor Company has ever built. It belongs to the small block Ford family and was first introduced in 1969 with the Ford Mustang Mach 1.

Stroker engines and kits are super popular these days. The simple fact is that when you start adding up the cost of a good crank, rods, and pistons, along with the machine work to fit it into your ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

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 ...

During the course of a restoration, there are hundreds of decisions to be made. Some are made up front before a single wrench is turned, while others are often made on the spur of the moment because ...