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 ...

The choke valve in an engine's carburetor, whether it's a Holley carburetor or another brand, helps a cold engine start by restricting some of the airflow into it. When the engine is cold, the choke ...

An internal combustion engine, at its core, is similar to a giant air pump. To produce power, it sucks in fresh air and fuel, compresses that mixture, and then explodes it, before expelling the burnt ...

Give them the results of a TDC valve-drop static clearance test, and Comp Cam's techs can calculate the piston-to-valve clearance for any of its cams at any degree of rotation. This is especially ...

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