OSKALOOSA — Under a mostly cloudless blue sky, four men from Pella busied themselves installing a flagpole at Ben Taylor's rural Oskaloosa home on Saturday morning. They provided the materials. They ...

In general, the General Motors Vortec 5.3-liter V8 is a powerful, dependable engine. If you're not familiar with General Motors' Vortec engines, they are a family of small-block V8s that GM put into ...

With prices of classic muscle cars like the Dodge Charger or Chevy's Chevelle SS heading for the stratosphere, a common way to cobble your own together on the cheap is to purchase a lowly six-cylinder ...

Joe Parker is a nationally award-winning journalist and columnist from the Atlanta area. He has served as an automotive journalist for the past four years alongside extensive sports, business, ...

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General Motors has issued a service update for 2021 model year full-size truck and SUV models that are being shipped to dealerships and may be affected by valve lifter problems. The hazards: this ...

There's no denying the popularity of GM's line of LS engines and their many variants. And onof the most prevalent, and popular, would be the 5.3L LM7 Vortec. There are hundreds of thousands of these ...

While the 5.3L LS4 V8 was the first car engine to feature Active Fuel Management (cylinder deactivation) technology, it was not Flex Fuel capable and did not have variable valve timing. As mentioned, ...

Want your ride featured on HOT ROD?Click hereto find out how! Back in the mid- to late 1950s, if you wanted a powerful, comfortable, and reasonably luxurious driver, a 1957 Chevy Bel Air was an ...

Another LS cam test, are you kidding me? Haven't we tested literally every LS cam ever invented? If we pass right by the excessive and incorrect use of literally for a moment (my pet peeve), the ...

The biggest complaint about LS-type engines is they cost a lot of coin to get into. Yeah, the typical LS mill will bleed more cash from your wallet compared to a traditional small-block, but if you're ...