Torquing head bolts would appear to be a simple operation – just drop the bolts in and torque them in place. But the task is a little more involved if you are interested in performing the operation ...

In Tonawanda, N.Y., General Motors‘ factory temporarily installs a bolt with an embedded passive RFID tag on every cylinder head and engine block that GM uses to make its Gen 5 six- and eight-cylinder ...

When considering engine performance, if anything has been a game changer, it is the advancement in cylinder heads. Back in the '60s and '70s, and even the '80s, the average street machine's engine ...

The word nostalgia means different things to different people. Sure, we look back longingly at all those wonderful classis and muscle cars that got away, but do we remember them as being at least a ...

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 ...

We have already discussed here a wide list of procedures you can do yourself on your Toyota VVTi engine, from removing the valve cover to the crankshaft. In this article, our focus will be on how to ...

At 7,500 rpm, the pistons in your race engine reach either top-dead-center or bottom-dead-center and change directions 25 times per second. That means the piston goes from traveling at top piston ...

Torque-to-yield bolts are bolts designed to stretch past their elastic range, allowing them to maintain better sealing across ...