The small-block Chevrolet (SBC) V8 has undergone several refinements over the decades since its creation. While every true SBC generation uses the same 4.40-inch cylinder bore spacing, single camshaft ...

Martin holds a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. Working full-time as an Avionics Technician on fighter jets, he travels using a variety of vehicles, to include: a Camaro ZL1, F-150 FX4, Jeep ...

There's an old saying among car buffs that "there's no replacement for displacement." Nowadays, that's not exactly true. Forced induction such as superchargers and turbochargers has replaced sheer ...

Chevrolet Performance has discontinued its naturally aspirated 7.0L LS7 and closely related LS427/570 crate engines, GM Authority can confirm. General Motors quietly pulled the plug on both the ...

I can’t forget my first experience with the soon-to-be-gone Chevrolet LS7 V8 engine. I was only a few months into this whole “automotive journalism” thing and had gone to a media track day at the ...

Does the new 1250-horsepower, 233-mph Corvette ZR1X get your pulse revving toward redline? In spring 1970, you’d likely have felt the same way about the Corvette LS7. That was the regular production ...

In the hierarchy of the LS engine family, one designation stands above the rest: LS7. We know the LS9 makes more power and (numerically speaking) was two better than the seven, but it took forced ...

If the Hellcrate is too low on suck-squeeze-bang-blow for your project car, Mercury Marine’s performance division has something nice for you. Enter the LS7 SB4 7.0, a modified General Motors LS7 ...

The LS7 also has to pass a thermal shock testthat flushes engine coolant ranging from about 250 degrees F to -40degrees F through the block while it's running. Even in the elite,low-volume Corvette ...

The Corvette Z06 427 arrived as a focused, track-bred evolution of Chevrolet’s long-running sports car, pairing a big-cube V8 ...

The 427ci LS7 V-8 from the '06-up Z06 Corvette is an amazing engine, but packaging one into a traditional hot rod can be difficult with its external oil tank and hoses. And there seems to be a lot of ...

EFI University’s Benjamin Strader had just one goal: to get a GM LS V8 engine to hit 11,000 RPM reliably. The stock redline on an LS7 crate engine is 7,000 RPM, but clearly that’s not enough. “Project ...