This is the story of the mighty powerplant that kept that behemoth moving. Ford has built a wide range of big block V8 ...

Scarcer still are clean-sheet V8 designs. But bucking modern trends, Ford has created an all-new big-block gasoline unit for use in heavy trucks. Displacing a burly 7.3-liters, this engine will ...

When you have a rolling Super Duty shell and a free 8.1L V8 from a parts truck, you put them together and make something special.

Ford Blue Founded 1903 Founder Henry Ford Headquarters Dearborn, Michigan Current CEO HotCars tracked down the most reliable big block V8 ever produced by Ford, of which many could rightly argue ...

An experimental race engine that was canceled before it got to race, the Mark IIS "Mystery Motor" remains one of the most fascinating V8s built by Chevy ...

Breaking ground, Ford has developed a brand new big-block gasoline V8 engine to offer customers more choice while simultaneously replacing the tried-and-true 6.8-liter V10 that’s used in medium ...

Yes, the 427 Cobra V8 was offered in the first part of the year until December 1967, when the big-block was retired to make way for Ford’s new rising star, the 428 Cobra Jet. However ...

Okay, so, why is this such a big deal? Well, for starters, the fact that the nerds over at Ford Performance were able to force enough air into an iron-block, pushrod V8 to produce north of a ...

Once a staple of the hot rod and modification scenes, the era of the big block V8 engines has largely ended thanks to technological advances in the 1980s and 1990s. The result was 340 horsepower ...