Two companies, Ford and General Motors, kept the big block chugging forward all the way through the '80s, '90s, and 2000s. Here's a look at the five final big block V-8 engines sold in America ...

As they continued developing more product lines, the group reached into the LS bag of tricks and spread that joy to other engine platforms, namely the beloved Gen 1 small-block Chevy, making it ...

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 ...