During the era when muscle cars reigned supreme, GM's Chevrolet division developed some of the greatest big-block V8s of all time. Since the early 1960s, American carmakers started offering more ...
Chevy's 454 engine sets the standard for all other big-blocks. Most fat-block development centers around the popular Rat motor; cams, heads, and intake designs are developed for it first, then ...
Unlike most of its competitors, the Chevrolet Mark IV Rat motor was designed from the beginning to be a high-performance race engine, with the initial Daytona "Mystery Motor" configuration merely ...