Making engine components out of plastic isn't common, especially when you consider how hot engines are, but that doesn't stop ...

From Street Stock to Winston Cup, the three most important areas for engine performance improvements are cylinder heads, valvetrains, and intake manifolds. In particular, cylinder heads affect most ...

Modern internal combustion engines are under a lot of stress during normal operation. In particular, there's a lot of tension between the cylinder head and the engine block, especially in diesel ...

You might think that after all these years the pushrod V-8 has been in existence, cylinder head design would have been perfected. Think again. When it comes to cutting ports and combustion chambers ...

Chrysler Group dealers are replacing malfunctioning cylinder heads on a small percentage of 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engines. And a recent shortage of replacement heads means some customers have been ...

Inline four cylinder engine with cylinder head removed, exposing pistons - Bizoo_n/Getty Images It's an argument practically as old as the combustion engine itself: What's the best configuration of ...

We're used to the unexpected from World Products--things like 454-cube small-blocks and big-blocks with cylinders large enough to warrant their own ZIP codes. But this is something altogether new and ...

The five-cylinder engine is uncommon relative to the ubiquitous four-cylinder, six-cylinder, or eight-cylinder variants. As an odd-number engine, it certainly is in a class of just three such engines.