The hottest cylinder head on the small-block Chevy hit parade right now is the Vortec iron head. It's extremely affordable and flows a bunch of air for a stock production iron head with a 170cc port ...

If you could single out one particular part of an engine that is most misunderstood, you would likely mention the camshaft. The numbers associated with camshaft design have baffled many a car guy for ...

Auto magazines are full of 1,000-horsepower LS engine stories teeming with superchargers, turbochargers, intercoolers, massive loads of nitrous, race gas, and all sorts of glamorous equipment. While ...

Those wound-up pieces of high-tensile steel under your rocker arms work so hard closing your valves over millions of cycles that they could probably use a replacement right about now. We're talking ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A new heat resistant steel wire was developed for automotive valve springs. The purpose of the development is to apply a high temperature ...

Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2024 Telluride vehicles. The engine valve springs may break while driving, which can result in a loss of drive power and possibly create a hole in the ...

A hundred years ago, Opel developed it’s first engine utilizing four valves per cylinder for use in the 1913 Grand Prix racing car. Little did they know at the time that this innovative technology ...

There is so much going on with internal combustion engines (ICEs) these days, it can give you a headache just reading about them. That's why we do the research for you and then cram it into bite-size ...