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Engine Building Tips Part II: Block Prep, Head Studs, and Valve Lash
Last time around, we introduced you to our Dart University series with a few topics that get a lot of play on the Dart Heads customer service help lines – block oiling, setting valvetrain geometry,...
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MaxStreet’s Supercharged Musi/Edelbrock 800 HP+ 555ci Rebuild
Here at powerTV, we take great pride in our project vehicles. We aim to cater to varying styles of vehicles, combinations, and applications with the utmost of craftsmanship, all while providing...
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Inside The Evolution And Tech Of 5-Plus Inch Bore Space Engines
As the old saying goes, “There’s no replacement for displacement.” And drag racing engine builders know that to be a indisputable fact. But over the years, they, along with their customers, have...
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Digging Into RHS’ LS Race Block And Heads
Professional engine builders and performance enthusiasts have long been familiar with Racing Head Service (RHS) out of Memphis, Tennessee, and the word is getting out on the street more than ever. As...
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Buying your first Aftermarket LS Block
If you are an engine builder putting together an LS engine, there has never been as many options available as there are now. From full on hardcore race engines to tamed down street motors, the choices...
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Junkyard LS Engine Builds: Going From Rags To Riches
How many times have you heard that the days of building a decent engine from the junkyard are over? That may have been true during the 80’s – during the Small Block Chevy days – and prior to the...
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Hardcore Custom Engines: A Look At Dart’s Billet Blocks And Heads
Most of us count our horsepower by the hundreds. However if you’re a racer or engine builder who counts in the thousands, you’re not building with parts you bought out of a catalog. Engine builders...
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Debate: DART SHP Or Restored Stock Block?
When it comes to building a Saturday night engine, the engine budget always seems like the story lines from the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western “Dollars” trilogy: “A Fistful of Dollars,” “A Few...
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Buyer’s Guide to Ford Modular 4.6-Liter Short Blocks
Chances are, Modular-powered Mustang owners with plans for installing a serious power-adder will need to consider a new short block at some point. The factory powdered-metal connecting rods are...
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Dart Builds The Ultimate Big Cube 440-Inch Small Block (Part 1)
We needed a dyno mule to use and abuse for all the hardcore testing that you have come to love powerTV for. When a new head or camshaft profile comes on the market boasting monster power gains, we...
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Video: We Dive Into the Technology of RHS’ LS Offerings
Building the ultimate engine requires a lot of work, but thanks to a number of offerings from companies like Racing Head Service (RHS), getting the initial setup for your monster LS engine is...
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1,000 HP LSX376-B15 Part 1: Building the Long Block at Chevy Perf.
It’s no secret that Chevy’s LS engines are good breathers, so when you force-feed one with a few pounds of boost, its output sprouts like Godzilla’s vegetable garden. Stock, production-vehicle engines...
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Carb’d Cobra Jet Coyote Build Part 1: Livernois’ 3.700 Bore Block
There is little doubt that the Coyote engine is one of the best platforms ever developed by Ford. With over 400 hp on hand in a stock Mustang GT, and the stock block and crank capable of handling well...
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A Guide to Aftermarket LS Blocks
It’s hard to argue with anything about the GM LS engine. Traditional Chevy vs. Ford vs. Mopar guys can bicker all they want about the old-school engines, but no sane person can say that the LS does not...
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Dart Introduces Cast-iron LS Cylinder Block with Gen I Bottom End
Racers and street enthusiasts will soon have an additional option in designing engine combinations when Dart Machinery introduces its LS Next cylinder block at the SEMA Show. The new block integrates...
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Video Update: Inside Mike Moran’s 4,400-horsepower All-billet Bullet
Update: Moran Motorsports has just released a time-lapsed video (see top of page) showing the assembly of a new MRE all-billet engine that Engine Labs first featured following last year’s PRI show....
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TECH5: Dart’s Richard Maskin Discusses LS Engines & Head Design
TECH5 is a regular feature where EngineLabs asks industry leaders five technical questions. This week’s guest is Richard Maskin, former Pro Stock engine builder and founder of Dart Machinery....
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Alloy Version of Dart’s LS Next Block In Tooling Stage
An alloy version of Dart’s revolutionary LS Next cylinder block will soon be available. “We are once again in the tooling stages on our all-new LS Next aluminum block,” says Richard Maskin, founder of...
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TECH5: Competition Benefits of World Products Raised-cam SBC Block
TECH5 is a regular feature where EngineLabs asks industry leaders five technical questions. This week’s guest is Jack McInnis, marketing director with PBM-Erson-World Products. EngineLabs: What design...
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SEMA 2014: Trans Dapt’s LS Engine Swap In A Box For 1964-67 A-Bodies
So much power, so little size–such is the greatness behind the LS series, the small-block engines from GM that changed everything we thought we knew about V8s. Since their inception, the ongoing...
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