The Chevy LS V8 is one of the most ubiquitous elements in car customization. Any forum post or Facebook group thread about engine trouble usually has at least one comment along the lines of: “Just LS ...

LS V-8 engine swappers are a unique breed. As hot-rodders, they know the deep devotion to car brands that most folks in the hobby have. And yet, LS swappers are iconoclasts in microcosm. There's ...

LS swaps are nothing new -- if anything, the street performance world has been stuffing GM's finest big-cube V8 in just about anything that would take it for years now. Porsches, E36 BMWs, Mustangs, ...

In the hot rod world engine swaps are a big part of what we do. It can be a small-block V-8 to replace a straight six-banger, a big-block in place of a small-block, or any number of "this for that" ...

Yeah, we know "LS swap the world!"—but, seriously, in stock form the LS engine isn't very attractive, and its LT cousins are even worse. Hey, GM was trying to churn out a high-performance engineering ...

They say the devil is in the details. The reason that’s a cliché is because it’s true. But we’re here to take the hassle out of those details. LS engine swaps have become the easiest and quickest way ...

Poet Robert Frost once wrote, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." In other words, you could do an LS swap, but there are so ...

Much to the chagrin of the governments of California, New York, and the European Union, you just can't get people to stop modifying their cars. Even taking the engines out and replacing them with ...

Remember my Corvette? The sad, 1985 grand tourer that I just couldn’t stop myself from buying last fall? If you’ve forgotten, I forgive you. For most of the winter, I forgot about this poor car, too.

We need not bore you with another diatribe about how the Chevy Vega was an unmitigated disaster vehicle for General Motors. But long story short, it's hard to market your cheap subcompact as a true ...