You've probably heard racers talking about leakdown testing as a method of verifying engine condition. Being a hot rodder, you've probably performed a similar function by using a compression tester to ...

Increasing an engine’s compression ratio is a proven way of unlocking extra horsepower, but there’s a point of diminishing returns. The team at Garage 54, the Russian mechanics who built a V16 using ...

We put both engines on the dyno to see which made more horsepower and torque. It didn’t go as planned. Over the past year, we assembled two very mild small-blocks aimed at the typical hot-rodder ...

A fundamental difference between gasoline and diesel engines is that a gasoline engine uses spark ignition while a diesel engine uses compression ignition. Before we delve deeper, let's understand how ...

The 2026 F1 season hasn't started yet, but there's already a major controversy brewing surrounding engines in cars being ...