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For decades, the debut of a new Corvette generation has coincided with the introduction of a new Small Block V8 engine. This tradition has held strong through the Vette’s fifth, sixth ...

It must be a grand tourer, sports car, track car, drag racer, and golf-club hauler, displaying versatility not expected of any other model. That’s the Corvette’s dilemma: Because it has ...

and many drivers and engine builders built their personal reputations while fielding a Corvette. Seriously modified small- and big-block Vettes also helped solidify the car's status as a drag ...

Sometime in the cars storied past it had morphed into an amateur drag racer ... black emblems would let you know this as no small-block Corvette. A new fuel tank from TANKS, inc. replaced the ...

A variant of the first 350 small-block, designated L46, was included as an optional V8 for the 1969 Corvette, where the same torque peaked slightly later in the rev range, but horsepower was ...

After a rush to the finish line at a local drag racing event ... I thought it might seem strange to see a Corvette doing a burnout without a small-block Chevy soundtrack, but it isn’t.

The best small-block Corvette heads include the following ... castings achieved notoriety during the heyday of Super Stock drag racing, when porting was not allowed (and acid-etching had yet ...

asked Corvette assistant ... for ways to reduce both drag and wind noise (see sidebar "Aero Tricks"). Then there's the engine (also detailed in a sidebar, "The Small-Block Keeps Chugging Along").

Nevertheless, the properties of a drag radial over a high-performance summer tire for the road are pretty obvious in this application. There’s no denying the LT2 small-block V8 has plenty more ...

A Ford Mustang and a Chevrolet Corvette run along a quarter mile drag ... A new engine, the 302-cubic-inch (4.9-liter) small-block V8 showed up in the range. However, the model that we have ...