Chew's LS Family of Engines

摘要

How do you top greatness? With even greater greatness. At least that's the recipe GM successfully used to create an even better Chevy small-block engine. The original Chevy small-block has been (and frankly, continues to be) the most popular and successful engine ever created. Introduced in 1955, it wasn't GM's first V8 (that honor, according to Motor Trend magazine fell to a little-remembered 1917-1919 Chevy Series D engine) but it was the engine designed to compete with the venerable Ford Flathead. Since its appearance as an option in the 1955 Bel Air and Corvette, it has found a home in a wide range of GM vehicles from sports coupes to full-size trucks, and has been a more-than-suitable replacement engine for imports, other major domestics, hot rods and kit cars and even light aircraft.