The Chevy 5.3 liter Gen III engine was installed in thousands of pickups and vans from 1999 through 2007. The majority of them were the RPO LM7 / VIN T engine with the cast iron block, but there were ...

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've no doubt been regaled with the benefits of Chevrolet's LS-based engines. To be honest, all the hype is entirely justified. They are simply better in ...

There is a war out there in LS land, and it’s being waged between the nitrous and turbo camps. If you follow the usual build pattern of most LS owners, the first modification is a camshaft and ...

Turbos and superchargers have made extra power almost easy to come by. Thanks to them, even tiny four-cylinders can make the type of numbers that used to be reserved for big-displacement engines. That ...

General Motors is well known for its small-block V8 engines; especially the powerful, reliable, and versatile LS series that debuted with the C5 Corvette in 1997. Unlike most of its rivals, GM decided ...

The LS engine in my C5 Corvette finally gave up—tearing it down and prepping for a full rebuild. Don’t expect correct change ...