Does your engine need a valve adjustment? It depends on the age, condition and brand of vehicle you’re driving. Due to the popularization of roller-follower valve train designs that reduce friction ...

While the engineering community continues to explore the benefits of electric and hybrid vehicles—i.e., the environmental and renewable energy factors—the automotive market is still dependent on ...

A thermostat is an essential component of an automotive engine cooling system. While most cars have one, some have two ...

The hunt for efficient engine valve technology can be a never-ending journey into cam timing, various combustion cycles, and lift and duration adjustments. For that reason, some companies believe ...

The language of import performance can be strange. Sometimes it's a verbal stew of numbers and letters--RX-8, NSX, and MR2, for example--that seem randomly tossed together. At other times it adopts ...

Prototype IVA engine swaps a usual longitudinal camshaft for short, individually driven camshafts sited across the top of the cylinder head. IVA cam drive is by ECU-controlled electro-mechanical ...

Modern engine bays are filled with black plastic where bright cast aluminum once sat, and few parts symbolize that shift more ...