Time was when a valve job was done with some valve-grinding compound and a vacuum cup on a stick. But no more. Today's high performance engines require the same machining precision in the valves that ...

Rotary engines (also known as Wankel engines and Wankel rotary engines) are quite different from piston or "reciprocating" engines. One of the distinguishing features is that they don't need valves to ...

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 ...

A few days ago, we published a report highlighting the valve lifter issues some General Motors customers were experiencing in certain vehicles equipped with either its 5.3L V8 L84 gasoline engine or 6 ...

What's scarier than a Maserati engine from the '80s? A more sophisticated one from the same timeline. Admittedly, we can't really comment on its reliability, as Maserati's prototype six-valve engine ...

Since the 1950s, some motorcycles, notably ones from Ducati, have used desmodromic valvetrains in their engines. Why is this ...

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 ...

This is a category that is pretty rapidly going away. You'll be hard-pressed to find an overhead valve — also known as a pushrod — engine in anything outside of a General Motors LS/LT V8 or one of ...

Set to debut in a new 1.6-liter 4-cylinder Smartstream turbo engine, Hyundai's new valve tech is able to continuously change the duration of valve openings to suit driving conditions, which Hyundai ...

Ford's Godzilla V8 engine stands out in the modern automotive landscape, offering impressive power and towing capacity for ...

In certain vehicle models years, Ford's Coyote 5.0 engine experienced an oil consumption problem that has since led to ...