In case you’ve disassembled your Toyota VVTi engine to replace the piston rings or perform other repairing jobs, you’ll need to put all the parts back together correctly. We’ll see here how to ...

When you consider the crazy monkey motion of reciprocating internal combustion engines it is remarkable they work as well as they do. You have eight pistons and connecting rods doing a "do-si-do" ...

We're out for torque, and nothing serves it up like huge cubes and a big arm. Stroking delivers both. Common Chevy 383 and Ford 347 combos have brought strokers to the masses, but there can be more ...

Utah's Transcend Energy Group claims it has a relatively simple and cheap way to dramatically increase the torque output of combustion engines, simply by replacing the standard connecting rods with ...

A teardown of a locked-up GM Vortec 350 reveals bent rods, destroyed bearings, a ventilated block, and why these workhorse engines go out with a bang.

Cross-plane cranks have their crank pins arranged in a plus shape. Flat-plane cranks have their crank pins arranged opposite ...

When you consider the crazy monkey motion of reciprocating internal combustion engines it is remarkable they work as well as they do. You have eight pistons and connecting rods doing a “do-si-do” ...