Hot-rodders share a common denominator, irrespective of brand loyalty: get from A to B as fast and as inexpensively as possible. Within the scope of the engine, that means focusing primarily on the ...

Ask any engine builder where he would concentrate his efforts if he could only modify one component in an engine, and most would say the cylinder heads. Even the sleepiest street engine can see power ...

Project Grand Caddy has been around for well over two years now and has been a great daily driver and mild trail vehicle. Last June, the ZJ took a turn for the worse: It found itself a nice little ...

Last month, we took you through the tear down and inspection of Gary Schweitzer's '65 200ci six-cylinder engine at JGM Performance Engineering. We learned during the process that 35,000 original miles ...

Back in January, we told you about an unfortunate Mercedes-Benz R63 AMG owner who, instead of paying $57,000 to have the engine rebuilt after a head bolt failure, decided to do all the work on his own ...

Arguably the single most important component in any car is its engine. The engine is what makes something an "automobile," after all — that is, able to move itself. However, engines are also usually ...

THE SITUATION: Team drivers Phil and Annett Albert recently faced a tough decision that’s all too common for owners of an aging truck: Overhaul the engine or trade the truck? They’d been driving a ...

Modern internal combustion engines are under a lot of stress during normal operation. In particular, there's a lot of tension between the cylinder head and the engine block, especially in diesel ...

Nearly everyone has heard the words “head gasket” at some point in their life, but nowhere near that many people actually know what one is or what it does. The head gasket is a seal that lives between ...