We might be covering ground that's well trampled for many, but the static compression ratio of an engine is simple to understand: it's all the volume of a cylinder above the compression ring at Bottom ...

If you've watched a car movie like the "Fast and the Furious" franchise in recent years, you might've noticed them pressing a button and the car suddenly getting a massive boost in engine power. When ...

Every motorhead dreams of squeezing a little more juice out of their engine, whether it is through simple upgrades like swapping their stock air filter for an aftermarket cold air intake or full-blown ...

In the interest of preserving hot rodding history, we frequently republish old stories simply for the fun of it, but in cases like this camshaft technical overview from three decades ago (“Choosing ...