It’s a C8 Chevy Corvette with a direct-injected, 8.1-liter big-block running variable valve timing, all thought up by Larry Hofer—a General Motors performance guru who literally wrote a book ...

But if there's anyone on planet Earth capable of making it happen, it's Larry Hofer. The man literally wrote a manual on how to tune and modify 8.1-liter Vortec V8 s and their related 496-cubic ...

At the 2:30 mark, Hofer backs the 525-horsepower V8 C8 out of the garage, to which Quirin says, almost disappointedly, “It’s relatively quiet.I thought she’d be louder.” Patience, sir.

San Diego’s Larry Hofer is the proprietor of the Corvette Shop in South California. Like every shop owner, Hofer tries to ...

Larry and Brigitta Hofer of Bridgewater will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on October 22, 2016. They have three daughters, Kelly (Brian) Hefti, Stephanie (Michael) ...

It's been 50 years since Chevrolet last put a big block V8 in a Corvette from the factory. If you ask long-time engine tuner and full-time American muscle fanatic Larry Hofer, that's a shame.

Then there's San Diego, California's Larry Hofer and his personal vision of Big League extremism-an 8.1 liter (that's 496 cubic-inches for the metrically-challenged), big-block-powered '99 ...

One of his latest books is on the Chevrolet 8.1 Vortec / 496, making Hofer the perfect candidate for performing the world’s first C8 Corvette Big Block swap. Naturally, a project like this is no ...

It’s alive! It’s aliiive! And it can be driven! Not that there was any doubt in the passion project that put an 8.1-liter big block into a C8 Corvette.If anyone was gonna make the ballsy ...

Larry and Karen Hofer, of Sioux Falls, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on June 26 with an open house from 2-4:30pm at Central Baptist Church, 3102 W. Ralph Rogers Rd., Sioux Falls, SD.