It's a real laugh hearing what sounds closer to a diesel than a gas engine rumble and bumble its way down the street in a C8 ...

Introduced in 1970, the Chevy 454 -- affectionately known as the Rat Motor -- was the largest displacement Chevrolet engine to enter the big-block ... port cast-iron cylinder heads with 118cc ...

With the era of big block V8s coming to a close by the end of the 1970s, mostly used in commercial vehicles like trucks ... heads, the L48 350 was made available on the Nova in 1968. The Chevy ...