Over the years, we’ve built dozens of small-block, big-block and LS-based engines where we have set custom ring end gaps. We must admit that we rarely check the end gap on the two small stainless ...

There's no need to sugarcoat what bad piston rings can do to your engine. Those rather thin cast-iron or steel rings may look small and irrelevant to untrained eyes, but they play a vital part in ...

For how basic it is, a car engine's four cycles of combustion are truly fascinating. A perfectly timed valvetrain ensures that the air/fuel mixture enters, compresses, and then exits without piston-to ...

Your car's engine is truly a marvel of engineering, relying on a combination of extreme tolerances and pressures to produce power. Think about it — you're effectively creating hundreds of explosions ...