A lot of us, me included, love cars but aren't totally sure what all of the whacky nomenclature means, especially when ...

General Motors’ all-new 3.9L V6 has been honored with a Breakthrough Technology award by Popular Mechanics for its innovative use of variable valve timing in an overhead valve engine. For ages GM has ...

Camshafts are simple devices, but important ones. Modern engines can have one or more intake and exhaust valves, and it's the camshaft's job to open valves precisely as the engine runs, supplying the ...

Overhead-valve internal-combustion engines, in which the valves are located in the cylinder head and actuated by a block-mounted camshaft via pushrods, go way back in automotive history. Production ...

It seems, for the modern American production car. that the 'L' head engine is a thing of the past. Present design trends indicate that the few remaining flathead engines now in production will be ...

Time was when a valve job was done with some valve-grinding compound and a vacuum cup on a stick. But no more. Today's high performance engines require the same machining precision in the valves that ...