Horsepower: 2,500. Cubic inches: 430. Boost pressure: 45 psi. Cylinder pressure: Absolutely ridiculous. Running 6.80s at nearly 210 mph, today’s 275 drag radial door-slammers incinerate the ...

More than 20 years after the first Gen III LS1 V8 rolled off the assembly line for the 1997 Corvette, it seems there are LS cylinder heads everywhere, and even more stories that have tested and ...

Choosing cylinder heads for your small-block is easy, right? All you have to do is look for the one that offers the most flow. Well, truth be told, it really isn't as easy as all that, and that's a ...

All enthusiasts are basically interested in one thing, getting better performance from their cars. Whether it's better handling, braking, highway cruising, reliability, or simply better straight-line ...

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 ...

I worked as a machinist in an automotive machine shop in the early 1980s before my career took me into the aerospace sector. The shop's high volume of mundane engine rebuilds and turning brake drums ...

Revealed in April 2009 at the New York International Auto Show and the Jeep Safari in Moab, the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 is a workhorse of an engine that continues to split opinion. On the one hand, ...