and Chevy's first big-block engine family was born. This visual comparison of Edelbrock's 60809 Performer RPM 409 and 60559 Performer RPM 454-R heads will help you get your head around the ...

The W-series engine broke new ground for Chevrolet as the company's first big-block. Introduced in 1958, and produced in displacements of 348 and 409 cubic ... the ancient Chevy was equipped ...

Looking back at Chevy's full-size ... and the engine under the hood should be your first stop. The top engine on the 1962 Impala was the Turbo-Fire 409 V8. Chevrolet sold two versions of this ...

White racked up a pile of race wins for the 409 and was among the first, along with Junior Johnson, to race Chevy's stroked, Smokey Yunick-built "Mystery Motor" 427 thoroughbred—an engine that ...

The Chevy 409 engine became the go-to powerplant for U.S. drag racers in the early '60s and for many regional racers in the mid-'60s. Some of the most famous racers included Dyno Don Nicholson ...

This ’62 Bel Air is powered by the top dog of Chevy’s engine family for 1962. Its 409-cu.in. big-block V8 was rated at 409 horsepower. That powerplant proved to be a race winner from the first ...

The Chevrolet 409 V8 had a significant, but brief moment in the history of American big-block, high-performance engines. While the 409 V8 may be best known as the title of a popular Beach Boys ...

In 1958, Chevrolet introduced the W-series engine ... For the 1961 model year, Chevy unleashed a larger-displacement variant of the W-series. Bored and stroked to 409 ci (6.7 liters), it debuted ...

With just 57 units produced, the rare Z11 V8 is the rarest Chevrolet engine ever and remains valuable today. The Z11 V8 was a ...

The reason I’ve avoided this 409 reality is because of even more confusion concerning Chevy’s biggest, most secret engine development program ever. If I said it was a 409. Had I done this ...