If you drive an older truck or SUV from Chevrolet or GMC, you’ll be excited to hear the eight-year court battle over the ...

A class action lawsuit alleging excessive oil consumption from the GM Vortec 5.3L 5300 V8 engine has officially been settled, ...

A GM 5.3L V8 Vortec oil consumption class-action lawsuit has been settled with lawyers cashing in with a big pay day. GM 5.3L ...

This Chevy engine powered some of the world's highest-mileage vehicles over the years, and it keeps on hauling decade after decade.

Defective piston rings, it claimed, meant that the vehicles would suffer from excessive oil consumption. That oil consumption ...

General Motors has been slapped with a new class-action lawsuit over alleged issues with the Vortec V8 engine in its GMT900 platform full-size trucks and SUVs. This lawsuit, which was filed in U.S.

Rolled out for the 1999 model year alongside the Silverado, the first-generation GMC Sierra is a pretty capable pickup for that particular era. The Vortec 6000, which was offered on the heavy- and ...

Arguably the most critical engine components for unleashing big horsepower,free-flowing cylinder heads are usually what push the cost of a performance engine buildup far beyond "budget." And what good ...

Vortech Engineering has done it again. Now owners of 1999-2013 Gen III and Gen IV Vortec V8 engines (as pulled out of Chevy, GMC, and Hummer light trucks and SUVs) can install a belt driven V3 SCi ...

The new engines are derived from the six-cylinder Vortec 4200 recently introduced with the 2002 GMC Envoy, Chevy TrailBlazer and Oldsmobile Bravada. The engines will be manufactured at GM Powertrain’s ...

For 2010, the General's half-ton pickup truck lineup will no longer use the 367-hp 6.0L V-8 L76 Vortec engine, which has been effectively replaced by the 6.2L V-8 L92 Vortec with 403 hp and 415 lb-ft ...