The 5.3L Vortec engine has earned its place as Chevrolet’s longest-lasting pickup truck engine, powering popular models like ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...