Engine failures that many racers blame on the connecting rods are often actually installation mistakes. When their characteristics are correctly understood, connecting rods can be one of the strongest ...

If you hear a knocking sound from the bowels of your engine, it could be rod knock, but what exactly is it, and just how catasrophic can it be?

The mailbox is loaded each month with the inevitable "How to I get more power from my..." questions-and many of them are for oddball engines for which there just plain are no speed parts. Pretty much ...

Hot rods are a special breed of cars, something no one else outside the American continent can do with a proper degree of success. Dating back to the years that separated the two world wars, hot rods ...

Putting one together is different from just about any other engine.