In the sixties, which were the heyday of the muscle car, engineers maximized both horsepower and torque in the form of the big-block V8 ... to as one of Chevy's iconic Mark engines.

The first production big-block, the W engine, was used in its larger cars and pickup trucks for the 1958 model year and continued through 1964. Chevrolet offered several variations of the 348 big ...

The American outlook of "bigger is better" certainly played a role in the fanaticism surrounding big block V8 engines of that era ... dates back to 2007 when Chevy's Vortec 8100 L18 powered ...

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 ...