Our core, purchased from AA Midwest, is a late-model truck Vortec or Gen II small-block 350. GM sufficiently refined the engine package to offer many improvements in quality. These late-model ...

These pop-it valves open when the injectors pressurize the fuel block and hoses. The run on the Vortec 350 engine was relatively short: It hit the market in 1996 and was replaced with GM's new ...

Also intriguing is a complete '96 to '02 L31 truck and van 350 Vortec engine (PN 12530282). This engine already has the right heads, plus it uses a hydraulic roller cam. Replace the mild cam with ...

An engine swap can be quite costly, so putting even a quarter of those funds into your Vortec 350 engine could get you where you want to be. When it comes to making cheap and easy power with ...

The small block 350 cubic inch V8 can pack a serious punch ... Second, The stretch from 2007-2014 is among the worst years for Vortec engines due in part to Positive Crankcase Ventilation ...

When it comes to GM engines, the Chevy small ... sibling to the small block V8, the Vortec 4.3 featured the same cylinder bore and stroke as the famous 350. That means the V6 could use many ...

However, the truck variants of the Gen III small block, often referred to as "Vortec" engines, are just as formidable in truck applications. The LQ9, sometimes called the Vortec HO 6000 ...

Mechanically similar, General Motors’ LS and Vortec engines were the fruits that got ... and a 2.3-liter turbocharged Ford Focus RS (350 hp, AWD). Interestingly, judging solely by the ETs ...