Cylinder misfires can turn a smooth commute into a rough, fuel‑wasting slog, and they almost always leave a trail of ...

Oil seeping from the front of your engine rarely starts as a dramatic failure. It usually begins as a slow weep at the timing ...

Timing chains are often praised for lasting the life of an engine and eliminating the need for frequent belt replacements, yet not all of them live up to that reputation. Some engines begin producing ...

The Ford Probe, produced from 1989 to 1997, represents an interesting chapter in Ford’s history as a sports coupe developed in partnership with Mazda. Built on Mazda’s GD platform and sharing many ...

The GM Duramax 3.0L I-6 LZ0 is a turbo-diesel engine produced by General Motors for use in various vehicles, primarily full-size half-ton pickup trucks and full-size SUVs. Colloquially known as “baby ...

Report No. 3 in our series on building a 350-cubic-inch Chevy V-8 engine comes to us from Jeff Smith by way of our October 1989 issue. Preparing a block and blueprinting are critical first steps in ...

The first production car engine with variable valve timing (VVT) came from Alfa Romeo in 1980. It was installed in the fuel-injected Alfa Romeo Spider. Before this, a few experimental systems existed, ...

Do you know what a timing belt or a timing chain is and what they do? Could you find them on your vehicle's engine if you had to? If you answered no, don't sweat it. Both are buried behind a lot of ...

On New Years Eve 2015, my family and I were driving eastbound down the Ohio turnpike in my beloved 2002 Saturn L300. Everything was fine until, just past the Route 250 exit, the IP lit up like a ...

But the big reveal was the next generation of its more than 40-year-old B-Series power platform with a new 7.2-liter diesel engine for 2027—the same year that the Environmental Protection Agency’s ...