There's an old saying among car buffs that "there's no replacement for displacement." Nowadays, that's not exactly true. Forced induction such as superchargers and turbochargers has replaced sheer ...

The LS7 also has to pass a thermal shock testthat flushes engine coolant ranging from about 250 degrees F to -40degrees F through the block while it's running. Even in the elite,low-volume Corvette ...

Will joined the TopSpeed team over two and a half years ago, bringing his lifelong automotive passion, writing experience, and editorial expertise along with him. Whether classic or modern, American ...

It's dubbed the LS427/570 and sports a number of upgrades over the LS7 engine we saw in production. It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, Sean was drawn to anything with ...

Chevrolet offers a variety of crate motors, but the LS7 will no longer be one of them. Introduced with the C6 Corvette Z06, and then offered in the Z/28 fifth-generation Camaro, the LS7 V8 was a ...

Chevrolet Performance is opening its gates for customers who literally want to get their hands on one of its engines. In other words, you can build your own LS7 or LS9 powerplant. However, since we’re ...

In the hierarchy of the LS engine family, one designation stands above the rest: LS7. We know the LS9 makes more power and (numerically speaking) was two better than the seven, but it took forced ...

EFI University’s Benjamin Strader had just one goal: to get a GM LS V8 engine to hit 11,000 RPM reliably. The stock redline on an LS7 crate engine is 7,000 RPM, but clearly that’s not enough. “Project ...

The resulting numbers are absolutely astonishing: 825 horsepower and 8,300 rpm with a hydraulic roller camshaft, factory GM cylinder head castings, and a production LS7 aluminum block. That's nearly ...

Nelson Ireson December 21, 2012 Comment Now! Leaks and rumors being what they are, we've been cautious about talk of the LS7 V-8 engine from the Corvette Z06 appearing in the Chevrolet Camaro. We've ...

First of all: Yes, the intake manifold shown in our lead photo is backwards. That's intentional, for reasons we'll go into in a moment. But the larger question should be, Why would anyone want to take ...