Human activities are altering the existing patterns of Land Use Land Cover (LULC) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) on a global scale. However, long-term trends of LULC and LST are largely unknown in ...

A man much wiser than myself once said something to the tune of "On a long enough timeline, everything gets an LS." This obviously applies to cars and trucks. But it also applies to more oddball stuff ...

Originally from Britain, Dave is no stranger to a little rain. So he swapped the UK for France and then Spain. When he's not busy driving much larger commercial vehicles or pretending to be a musician ...

When does "just a little bit more" become too much of a good thing? The answer is that it occurs a lot sooner than most hot-rodders think. We're not sure when it happened, but at some point an engine ...

Back in the early 1990s the Gen II LT1 and LT4 engines powered GM's hottest performance cars, but GM read the tea leaves and knew that this platform would not be able to get them where they would ...

While the 5.3L LS4 V8 was the first car engine to feature Active Fuel Management (cylinder deactivation) technology, it was not Flex Fuel capable and did not have variable valve timing. As mentioned, ...

But, just how much abuse can the stock block take before it blows? We all know that truck motors are absurdly strong when it comes to throwing performance parts at them. The iron block truck motors ...

Katech has released a few new goodies for fifth-generation GM small blocks, including the 5.3-liter EcoTec3 L83, the 6.2-liter EcoTec3 L86, the 6.2-liter naturally aspirated LT1, and the 6.2-liter ...

Thanks to the stroker upgrade in part three, Modern Mouse was thumping out some serious power and torque. Our series began by subjecting the 5.3L to cylinder heads, cams, and an LSXR intake manifold.

In the 11 years since the LS-series of small-block Chevys was introduced, they have been factory-installed in everything from Corvettes to passenger cars, trucks and SUVs. It's the latter that we want ...