The Ford and Chevy 427 big blocks sit at the center of one of performance history’s fiercest rivalries, yet the two engines followed very different paths from the dyno cell to the winner’s circle. I ...
In 1958, Ford introduced its new FE series of V8 engines (short for Ford-Edsel) to replace the short-lived Y-block — itself a replacement for the truly antiquated flathead V8s. The FE was a tremendous ...
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Simple outside, but the 1968 Chevrolet Biscayne 427 had serious speed inside
The 1968 Chevrolet Biscayne 427 looked like a basic full-size sedan, but in the right configuration it packed genuine muscle-car performance. With a factory big-block under its plain sheet metal, this ...
The Chevrolet big-block is the workhorse racing engine of the muscle-car era. The 427 W first showed up midyear as a stroked 409 for the 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS. However, a year before, ...
The ZL1 is pretty much an aluminum version of the 427 L88 big-block with open-chamber heads and was originally planned for the Corvette. The aluminum block used cast-iron sleeves (retained with a 1/16 ...
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