The problem with a cam swap, like anything else we want to do with our car, is the expense. While the installation of a typical aftermarket cam is money well spent, and represents one heck of a ...

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

Life doesn't always go as planned. Case in point, our junkyard 5.3L series. Things started out well enough inpart 1, when we replaced the stock cam and springs with an LS9 cam and LS3 springs. This ...

The third generation of the Pontiac Firebird was produced from 1982 to 1992, and the Trans Am GTA couldn’t do better than 240 horsepower from 5.7 liters of displacement for the final model year. Be ...

Turbos and superchargers have made extra power almost easy to come by. Thanks to them, even tiny four-cylinders can make the type of numbers that used to be reserved for big-displacement engines. That ...

After pulling a 5.3L LS truck engine out of a junkyard, I wanted to find out for myself how easy it was to get it running again. The junkyard guy said that the engine was in fact a 5.3L out of a 2004 ...

If you want to dig a few hundred horsepower out of a junkyard to stuff in your project car, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better deal than a GM LS engine. These V8s are plentiful, relatively cheap, ...

Back in January 2022, we introduced you to a really cool 1972 Winnebago Brave Camper that was saved from the junkyard. It was found with an LS swap between the front seats and while that's a cool ...

TheLS engine has plenty of aftermarket supportand is a viable alternative to building power reliably in an application that has a very undesirable engine. Heck, the LS engine is fairly compact and ...