With 50-plus years of development behind them, big displacement engines like General Motors' 8.1-liter Vortec V8 and Dodge's 8.0-liter Magnum V10 were two of the largest engines ever placed in ...

Once a staple of the hot rod and modification scenes, the era of the big block V8 engines has largely ended thanks to technological advances in the 1980s and 1990s. The result was 340 horsepower ...

After two years of work, world's first C8 Corvette with a 8.1L Big Block engine finally hits the road. Watch it roar!

Chevrolet's largest displacement and final, big block engine for production vehicles was the 496-cubic-inch 8.1L Vortec. The 8100, as it's sometimes called, was the last big block engine derived ...