Related: Budget 350-Inch Small-Block Chevy Engine Rebuild and Dyno Test ... and builders can choose any style of camshaft, including a roller one. And finally, the SPC block has provisions for ...

Why did this engine become the best-selling car engine in history? Simple. The GM small block V8 was powerful but practical.

the small block Chevy V8 and later GM iterations have featured a common 4.4-inch spacing between cylinder bore centers, a single camshaft, pushrod-activated valvetrain, and two-valve-per-cylinder ...

Our reprise starts with Gray Baskerville’s October 1989 photos and details of Darrell Buehl’s selection and preparation of a 350-cubic-inch Chevy V ... the stock small-block head.

It’s our first head-to-head shootout with two engines: a Blueprint Engines crate Chevy 383 small-block versus a hand ... intake manifold, camshaft, compression ratio, oil pan, and oil.

Introduced in 1976, the smaller 305 was seen as a path to increased fuel economy while sharing a considerable amount of parts with the existing 350 small-block ... fitted with Chevy's tuned ...