Aluminum engines aren't new at Chevrolet Engineering. They've been evaluating the possible use of aluminum production V8 engines for a number of years. However, it wasn't until 1969 that Chevy ...

Sometimes you just have to go all out. Ken Crocie of H-O Racing has been building big-block Pontiac engines for close to 40 years, most of which have been aimed at the street, as is this engine. While ...

Engineers from Fiat Chrysler, Mexican engine parts supplier Nemak and the U.S. government's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have jointly developed a blend of aluminum alloy for cylinder blocks and heads ...

All-aluminum small-blocks have mystique. Even today, when production V-8s come with aluminum blocks straight from the showroom, there is still something magical about an all-alloy Gen I Mouse motor.

Michigan-based Saginaw Metal Casting Operations is getting $150 million for the production of sixth-gen small blocks intended ...

As any dedicated Bow-Tie fan knows, the ZL1 engine was a special, all-aluminum version of the Rat motor. That means the block and cylinder heads. In its day, a few were slipped into production ...

Die-casting is already the main manufacturing process for aluminium engine blocks in Europe and South-East Asia and is gaining momentum in North America. It is also the key process for manufacturing ...

Chevrolet is known for producing a lineup of powerful small block Chevy crate engines. However, the biggest Chevy crate engines include big block varieties as well. Chevrolet's largest displacement ...

Another CSIRO project is also pushing back the frontiers of magnesium applications. Dr Colleen Bettles and colleagues at the Cooperative Research Centre for Cast Metals Manufacturing (CAST), in ...