Wind the clock back a decade, and asking why the LS remained the default swap choice would have been a pointless question. The answer was obvious — engines were cheap, plentiful, aftermarket support ...

There’s a time and place for high-dollar builds. For the vast majority of us, that’s not our garages for the foreseeable future. Don’t let that stop you from having fun, though. There are still a ton ...

This is one such build, where the story isn't the cool billet widgets or the 10,000 hours of bodywork. The story of Ken Hutchison's LS-swapped Ford Ranger is about pure low-buck hot-rodding, and ...

Turbos and superchargers have made extra power almost easy to come by. Thanks to them, even tiny four-cylinders can make the type of numbers that used to be reserved for big-displacement engines. That ...

Over the years, General Motors has employed several eight-cylinder engine designs ranging from the inline "Straight-8" to the current LT1 V8. However, many agree that the small-block LS engines were ...

The Chevy LS V8 is one of the most ubiquitous elements in car customization. Any forum post or Facebook group thread about engine trouble usually has at least one comment along the lines of: “Just LS ...