There are plenty of instances where perfectly good—and often rare—cast iron cylinder head and engine block castings are scrapped due to the presence of a hairline crack in an external surface. Often ...

Based on a presentation to the 13th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Honolulu, May 25-30, 2003. A new high-strength steel with a specified minimum yield strength of 120 ksi has ...

One of the problems with running the proverbial ultimate cylinder head test that we did a few years back (a.k.a. MM&FF's Ultimate Guide to Cylinder Heads), is that the performance world continues to ...

Our lineup of small-block Chevy production heads is (from left to right): 128 ('87 Corvette), 882, 487, 126, 441, 993, 113 ('88-'89 Corvette). The 113 'Vette head is virtually identical to the 128 ...

One of the big three, cylinder heads are a critical ingredient in any performance build. Working with the cam profile and intake manifold, the cylinder heads help determine not only the peak power ...