Now that you have finished reading the other articles in our special camshaft section (you did read them, didn't you?), you know that the proper camshaft can add performance to your ride. But before ...

It's common knowledge that most modifications made to an engine involve a tradeoff somewhere in the overall equation. You might want a higher compression ratio, but the trade-off here is a need for ...

Power in numbers-the golden tenet. Everybody's got a little bit of power under the hood, but it's never enough. Unless you can smoke Titan rockets off the line or go through tires faster than a drift ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Harvey J. Crane Jr. had a passion for the inner workings of automobile engines, paying particular attention to camshafts. Crane grew up in gearhead family and by 1953 at the age of 22 ...

Consider the camshaft. On the one hand, it's a simple thing, a stick with bumps on it. It sits above the crankshaft, linked to it by a timing chain, and spins at half the crankshaft's speed. The ...