Q.When I rebuilt a 350 Chevy V-8 to replace the six-cylinder in my 1955 Chevy 210 I decided to use roller rocker arms. We ground the valves, added a mild cam with hydraulic lifters, screwed in studs, ...

Drag racers have been searching for tricks to gain horsepower since day one, and there are lots of ways to do it without spending a tremendous amount of time or money. One of the biggest downfalls of ...

Pushrods convert the vertical motion of the lifter from the camshaft lobe into valve movement. A V8 engine takes advantage of that by centrally locating a single camshaft in the middle of the engine ...

Any gearhead worth his or her salt knows that whether it's a SOHC, DOHC, or OHV engine, the camshaft is considered the brain of a four-cycle internal combustion power plant. The camshaft's profile ...

An engine's power production is directly proportional to its air-processing capacity. Internal-combustion engines consume both fuel and air, but the air is far more difficult to ingest than the fuel.