Specialized shop tools get expensive, and fast. If you want to buy a machine to resurface cylinder heads, you’ll likely sink at least $3,000 into it, and depending on how snazzy you want it to be, you ...

A billboard for an Adelaide car mechanic that’s been up for 15 years has survived a complaint – with the owner saying people find it hilarious. The innuendo-filled promotion for Beverley-based ...

Cylinder head porting is one of those garage mods that lives somewhere between speed-shop legend and flow-bench science. Also referred to as port and polish, the idea is simple: Open up the intake and ...

I worked as a machinist in an automotive machine shop in the early 1980s before my career took me into the aerospace sector. The shop's high volume of mundane engine rebuilds and turning brake drums ...

The 2.0-liter Ford Zetec four-cylinder engine saw widespread use in motorsport following its introduction in a number of 1990s Fords. SVT versions of the engine in the Focus eventually produced as ...

A head gasket is a part between your cylinder heads and the block. It preserves compression and stops coolant and oil leaks into the engine's cylinders, ensuring proper engine functioning. However, ...

Things really start to happen when you install a 4.1-Liter V6 and make a front-wheel-drive Skylark all Buick! We really did it this time! We came up with an engine swap that most people can't believe, ...

Actor Jason Momoa was involved in a head-on collision this weekend when a motorcyclist crashed into his 1970 classic Oldsmobile car. Thankfully, it appears that both the Aquaman actor and the ...

First introduced two decades ago, GM’s Vortec 3500 became the first (and only) American inline-five to make it into production. For decades, engineers have experimented with this atypical ...

The Oldsmobile 442 received a facelift for the 1969 model year. Headlights were still two per side, but the division in the center of the grille was now formed by a cascade continued downward from the ...