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 ...

LS engine architecture is indisputably amazing. There are examples everywhere, including the pages of Car Craft, of engines plucked out of salvage yards making reliable horsepower even at 1,000+ hp.

For racers, the most pressing questions we ponder late at night aren't about the meaning of life, the true meaning of beauty, or other such silliness. Yes, those things have their place, but we all ...

Auto magazines are full of 1,000-horsepower LS engine stories teeming with superchargers, turbochargers, intercoolers, massive loads of nitrous, race gas, and all sorts of glamorous equipment. While ...

Tick. Tick. Tick. That's the sound our Ford 4.0-liter, over-head valve (OHV) engine was making in our 1991 Ford Explorer after 250,000 miles. The Ford 4.0L V-6 engines, built in Germany, are found in ...

In the 1980s General Motors shifted away from small holes in the cylinder head and pushrod guide plates instead to what they refer to as “guided” rocker arms. These stamped rocker arms use two small ...

Q I own a '99 Chevy Lumina with a 3.1-liter V6. This weekend I got a flashing check-engine light with a severe misfire. I took the vehicle to a shop, which told me I had two rocker arms blown right ...

Some 2013 Acura RDX SUVs may intermittently illuminate the check engine light and store trouble code P3400 and/or P3497 in the PCM. One likely cause, reports Acura, is a sticking rocker arm oil ...