BIG WIND BLOWING

摘要

When the Vortec 350 truck engine was introduced in 1996, it represented the pinnacle of cheap but efficient horsepower from the venerable small-block Chevy engine family. Revised cylinder heads with fast-burn combustion chambers and trick intake runners meant wringing every last drop of torque from the aging small-block architecture. And even though the new LS1 Gen III engine would get rave reviews in the ensuing years, it was the innocuous Vortec that quietly piled up by the millions in salvage yards and Internet auctions across the country.