Driving Line compares the GM 4.2-liter inline-six-cylinder Vortec 4200 to Toyota's 2JZ engine, one of the most powerful inline-6 engines ever put in a production car. While the production GM 4.2 ...

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 ...

A motion GM filed to compel arbitration in an Ohio lawsuit over allegedly excessive oil consumption and defective piston rings in the Generation IV 5.3L Vortec V8 engine has been denied by the ...

And they are even stronger than the iron blocks found with the GM Vortec engines. Of course, they have other benefits as well, like billet main caps and priority-main oiling, but where they really ...

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 ...

Another of the many lawsuits directed at GM over alleged excessive oil consumption by the GM Generation IV 5.3L V8 Vortec 5300 LC9 gasoline engine has been dismissed, this time by the U.S ...

Throughout its illustrious history, Chevrolet has built many iconic V8 engines, of which these five ... better known as the Vortec 5300, was introduced in 1999. A workhorse motor that debuted ...

At the top of the list is the Chevy Suburban, a full-size SUV that was given the mighty Vortec 8100 normally reserved for ...

Vortec 4200, or more colloquially, the Ameri-Barra. The latter draws on a comparison to the mighty Barra I6 that Ford sold for years in Australia. Tuners love that thing, and given the GM engine ...

Over the following years, Chevrolet would use the engine for many of its vehicles ... GM cars and trucks until 1997. The 5.3-liter Vortec 5300 was part of its third-generation SBC in 1999 and ...

Forgotten six-cylinder from a Chevy SUV makes this the most unique 1,000 horsepower Camaro the world has seen!

includes (L96) Vortec 6.0L V8 SFI engine, (NP5) leather-wrapped steering wheel, (P0G) 12 months of GM Commercial Link, (U2K) SiriusXM Radio, (UPF) Bluetooth for phone, (US8) AM/FM stereo with MP3 ...