To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring you some of the stories that exemplify the core of what HOT ROD is and reflect the brand's influence on America's car ...

Combine the latest Chevrolet aluminum block, a pair of rare factory aluminum heads, a host of aluminum aftermarket performance components and the engine-building skills of Keith Black, and some would ...

These durable, high-perfomance engines are available for far less than you might imagine, including the Chevy LS3, Ford ...

All-aluminum small-blocks have mystique. Even today, when production V-8s come with aluminum blocks straight from the showroom, there is still something magical about an all-alloy Gen I Mouse motor.

In the early 1960s, an aluminum performance engine was as exotic as fuel injection, independent suspension and four-wheel disc brakes. The first mention of an all-aluminum engine for a Corvette was in ...

Rheinmetall has won a follow-up order from an unnamed German carmaker to produce aluminium engine blocks with a total value of more than EUR100m (US$117m). The company has been supplying the automaker ...

Much has changed in the automotive industry since the beginning of the 20th century. Traditionally, the material trusted under the hood for engine blocks was iron. In fact, some brands like Dodge and ...

To sleeve or to bore your engine block? That's the several-hundred-dollar question (maybe into the thousands) as you ...

In 2006, a mere five years after surpassing plastic’s usage among cars and light trucks worldwide, aluminum moved past iron to take second place among automotive materials. According to the Ducker ...