Rare Ardun-equipped Ford flathead V8 crate engine built by Irvin Werksman is offered for sale with period-correct performance ...

Racer Brown, HOT ROD’s tech editor, understood the intrinsic value of the small-block Chevy to such a degree that it changed his life. The Chevrolet Motors Division of the General Motors Corporation ...

Ford fans do not argue about much more fiercely than they do about pushrod versus modular V8s, because that split defines not ...

General Motors’ all-new 3.9L V6 has been honored with a Breakthrough Technology award by Popular Mechanics for its innovative use of variable valve timing in an overhead valve engine. For ages GM has ...

In an age for which Detroit found a replacement for displacement, Ford built a mammoth. Engines are shrinking, losing cylinders, and gaining turbochargers and superchargers, even as full-size trucks ...

Ford's famed flathead V-8 was revolutionary when the automaker put the engine into production in 1932. It brought the V-8 to the mass market and ready power to hot rodders for decades to come. But its ...

Group of transmissions around Lou Sales is mostly of the Cad-LaSalle variety, having been converted to fit behind several different engines. Box at far right is a Hydra-Matic for dragging.. What this ...

Mini stuff is the best kind of stuff. OK, yeah, we all love a huge V8 and a real car to drive it with, but I think every young enthusiast dreamed about putting a miniature engine into a miniature car ...

Prewar Harley-Davidson motorcycles are cool, full stop. These early bikes were in constant flux as the motorcycle format we know today was still being formulated and the kinks ironed out—not unlike ...

Electric cars are all the rage lately, but let’s not forget about the old standby – internal combustion. The modern internal combustion engine is a marvel of engineering. Today’s engines and ...