When it comes to engine building, cylinder heads are of utmost importance. Here's why Chevy's small-block Vortec heads could ...

The popularity of various engine designs typically fades over time as technological advances provide more power, better fuel economy, or both. Flathead designs gave way to overhead valves, and inline ...

A teardown of a locked-up GM Vortec 350 reveals bent rods, destroyed bearings, a ventilated block, and why these workhorse ...

In general, the General Motors Vortec 5.3-liter V8 is a powerful, dependable engine. If you're not familiar with General Motors' Vortec engines, they are a family of small-block V8s that GM put into ...

Modifications for your 5.3L Vortec V8 engine are a lot like eating potato chips ... you can't stop at just one. It starts innocently enough with a cold air intake, because hey, who doesn't want better ...

Vortech Engineering has done it again. Now owners of 1999-2013 Gen III and Gen IV Vortec V8 engines (as pulled out of Chevy, GMC, and Hummer light trucks and SUVs) can install a belt driven V3 SCi ...

The Vortec 5.3L V8 LMG was an engine produced by General Motors for full-size SUVs. Displacing 5.3 liters in a V8 configuration, the LMG was part of the Vortec (Generation IV Small Block) engine ...

When does "just a little bit more" become too much of a good thing? The answer is that it occurs a lot sooner than most hot-rodders think. We're not sure when it happened, but at some point an engine ...

For those readers out there who may be scratching their heads, the big red Swedish meatball you see before you is a 1974 Volvo C303, hailing from the automaker’s line of military vehicles. This ...