When General Motors revealed the '06 Corvette Z06's 505hp LS7 V-8 enginelast year, our first question was, "How detuned is it?" After all,despite its 500-plus horses, the latest and greatest 7.0L ...

There's no official metric that keeps track of this sort of thing, but it's quite possible that the LS-series small-block has risen to global domination faster than any platform in the history of ...