If the cylinder heads are on the engine, you will need to add air pressure to the cylinder to hold the valves in place. Our example is the Craftsman 47089 compression test kit using the 14mm long ...

Those wound-up pieces of high-tensile steel under your rocker arms work so hard closing your valves over millions of cycles that they could probably use a replacement right about now. We're talking ...

If you could single out one particular part of an engine that is most misunderstood, you would likely mention the camshaft. The numbers associated with camshaft design have baffled many a car guy for ...

Performance tricks are usually just sleight-of-hand changes that dolittle to improve performance. After all, if it was that easy, everyonewould be doing it, right? But the simple fact is, valvespring ...