From blown-out Ferraris and Lamborghinis to stupendously powerful V8 MX-5 Miatas, one thing is common: they probably have a special LS engine inside. General Motors' modern lineup of small block ...

General Motors began using LS V8 engines in its muscle car lineup in 1997 with the introduction of the 5.7-liter LS1, the first of its third-generation small block design. That first iteration ...

Every General Motors LS engine is special, starting with the LS1, a 5.7-liter Gen III small block V8 which debuted in the 1997 C5 Corvette. In 2008, GM released the 6.2-liter LS3 based on the Gen ...

General Motors Investing $888 Million in U.S. Factory to Build a New Generation of V-8s The new money allocated to the company's Buffalo plant will help fund the brand's sixth-gen eight-pot.

"It's got to be the old-fashioned LS engines," one mechanic said, referring to General Motors ' LS-based small-block engines first introduced in 1997.

"It's got to be the old-fashioned LS engines," one mechanic said, referring to General Motors ' LS-based small-block engines first introduced in 1997.

LS-series mills came in a dizzying array of shapes and sizes, all with different displacements, power outputs, piston sizes, but—and this is the best part—all based on the same engine block.

We mix old and new by building a 427-inch Dart LX and topping it with a Roots 6-71 blower. This e85 mill made 869 hp and 773 lb-ft of torque on Westech’s dyno.