The 5.3L Vortec isn't the only workhorse with a habit of outlasting the trucks around it. A couple of other engines have ...

The Chevrolet Vortec 8100 delivered 340 hp and 450 lb-ft in trucks and SUVs, with marine versions tuned higher, before ending ...

General Motors has been slapped with a new class-action lawsuit over alleged issues with the Vortec V8 engine in its GMT900 platform full-size trucks and SUVs. This lawsuit, which was filed in U.S.

A motion GM filed to compel arbitration in an Ohio lawsuit over allegedly excessive oil consumption and defective piston rings in the Generation IV 5.3L Vortec V8 engine has been denied by the judge ...

Early 2000's American trucks are awesome, and monstrous 8.1 liter V8 Vortec Chevy trucks are even more so. But when the time comes to change the heater core on one of these beasts, the bill can leave ...

Back in the early 1990s the Gen II LT1 and LT4 engines powered GM's hottest performance cars, but GM read the tea leaves and knew that this platform would not be able to get them where they would ...

Prior to the introduction of the Chevy SS in 2014, GM's previous V8-powered, rear-drive sedan was the Pontiac G8. The G8 got the ax following the 2009 model year. Like the Chevrolet SS, the company ...

Chevy wanted in on the emerging performance pickup game in the early 1990s, so i's engineers took off-the-shelf parts and created the bad-ass Chevy 454 SS. Based on the half-ton C1500, the 454 SS ...

The big block V8 used to be a staple of hot rod and modification scenes. The old adage "there's no replacement for displacement" is seriously dated in the modern era, but it rang true in the era of ...