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

This 1970 Chevy El Camino, however ... Recently featured by the folks at AutotopiaLA, this big-block beast cradles a monstrous 498-cubic-inch V8 engine, which is outfitted with 13:1 compression ...

It’s a C8 Chevy Corvette with a direct-injected, 8.1-liter big-block running variable valve timing, all thought up by Larry Hofer—a General Motors performance guru who literally wrote a book ...

General Motors introduced a new A-Body platform for the 1964 model year, and with that Chevrolet debuted the Chevy Chevelle ... powered by a 396 cubic-inch Big Block backed by a 700R4 automatic ...

At the start of the project, this Chevy was destined for ... creating an all-motor, Big-block V-8 monster. 632 cubic-inch ...

With the era of big block V8s coming to a close by the ... This swapped around for the 4Vs though, with the Chevy coming out on top at 10.25:1 and the Ford at 10.7:1. While both are similar ...