Chevrolet Performance engineers didn't set out to create the most powerful crate engine in the company's history. It was the fortunate consequence of their development process for the LSX454R drag ...

Chevy revealed its largest crate engine yet at SEMA—the 776hp LSX454R. A cast iron block is crowned with 6-bolt LSX aluminum heads which together with forged aluminum pistons help deliver a ...

It’s common knowledge that Australian car culture is a little wild. They have an unbridled obsession with burnouts, a long-running romance with rear-wheel drive and a seemingly unrivaled knowledge of ...

It's no secret that the first place most of us turn when doing an engine swap is to GM. The venerable GM small block V8s have found their way into 4x4s since they were first introduced in the ...

As we saw in the last installment of Department X, with its 505-horse LS7 GTO, GM Performance Parts is getting quite aggressive with its crate engine program, particularly with the LS series engines.

If you thought the General's recently announced, 638-hp LS9 supercharged crate engine from GM Performance Parts was something to gawk at, check out its bigger brother, the developmental 800-hp LSX 454 ...

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