'The new darling of the engine-swap set is the GM Gen III family of small-blocks that includes everything from the lowly 5.3L truck engine to the LQ9 6.0L all the way up to the swarthy Corvette LS7 ...

I get lots of letters asking essentially, "Where do I set the timing on my nonstock engine?" The way NOT to set timing is to highest manifold vacuum reading at idle—the engine is sure to ping under ...