A quick refresh on the project: It's a gutted 1998 Trans Am Formula for its Gen-III LS1, then Pro Motor Engines in Mooresville, North Carolina, took a break from building wild NASCAR engines to help ...

Half the crowd cheers, half winces — and both sides have a point.

The venerable LS engine swap is a meme for one very good reason – the LS V8 is a great engine. With its relatively low weight, compact size, big power potential, and a seemingly endless supply of ...

LS swaps are nothing new — if anything, the street performance world has been stuffing GM's finest big-cube V8 in just about anything that would take it for years now. Porsches, E36 BMWs, Mustangs, ...

Ever since Chevrolet started putting LS series engines in the Corvette and Camaro in the late '90s, the durable LS engines have become quite popular for engine swaps. Their six-bolt main bearing caps ...

Hot rodders have known about the power of the Gen III/IV for quite some time, and it’s not news to anyone that they’re being dropped into just about everything. They’re so popular, in fact, that many ...

Poet Robert Frost once wrote, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." In other words, you could do an LS swap, but there are so ...

Our Malibu wagon's goal was to create a tire-ripping, fun-time-having street car—a vehicle to fill with friends to rip burnouts around town and destroy cones on the autocross. After a year of trial ...