A good V8 is hard to kill, especially if it’s a naturally aspirated (NA) one, meaning no turbocharging and no supercharging. In the simplest of terms, a V8 is an eight-cylinder piston engine with two ...

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Remember when the Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and what used to be Chrysler all offered light-duty pickup trucks with available turbo diesel oomph? Only the largest of the Detroit-based ...

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With the launch of Chevy's small-block V8 in 1955, General Motors introduced an engine family that would make its way into millions of vehicles across the world. It was especially known as a mainstay ...

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Swapping an LS engine into a car is popular among folks inclined to do such things. It's a great way to gain the horsepower potential and reliability that makes the General Motors LS engines so ...

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 ...

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The 5.3 Vortec engine is manufactured by the General Motors Company, also known as GMC. It is a model from the range of LS-based small-block engines and has been in production for the past 15 years or ...