Doing things yourself when it comes to engine assembly can be very rewarding. We're not saying there's anything wrong with having someone else do the work, just that when you do it yourself, there ...

At Circle Track, we're all about helping you do more for yourself. But sometimes that's just not realistic. That's not casting doubts on the intelligence of our readership. Just like your mom, we ...

When referring to automobile engines, the term short block simply refers to an engine assembly that doesn't include new (remanufactured) cylinder head(s), and a long block comes with fresh heads ...

Go inside GM’s Performance and Racing Center to check out the new 1,004-hp crate engine’s revolutionary cylinder ... The RSX heads on the new 1,004-hp ZZ632 big-block Chevy crate engine ...

Pontiac's Super Duty 4-cylinder engine has established a formidable success record across a broad spectrum of motorsports competition. It has become the dominant powerplant in NASCAR's Charlotte ...

See All 12 Photos When it comes time to reassemble the engine, put the head gasket on dry and then position the head onto the block. We torqued the cylinder head nuts from the center out following ...

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 ...

In particular, there's a lot of tension between the cylinder head and the engine block, especially in diesel motors. The head gasket lives between these two components and helps maintain a tight seal.

N.Y., the engines are mounted onto pallets that have their own RFID tags with which the cylinder head and engine block serial numbers are merged. By then, the assembly ­information recorded by ...

Metallic bearings sit between the engine block—which is essentially the engine rotating assembly’s housing—and ... are all kinds of different seals: The head gasket sandwiches between the block and ...

The abstract description reads: “A cylinder head assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a cast cylinder head and a turbocharger housing integrally cast with the cylinder head and ...

When you find yourself in need of a new engine for your vehicle, you'll likely end up buying a remanufactured engine instead of rebuilding it or having it rebuilt. That decision depends on the ...