Pushrod engines may not be high-tech by today's standards, but they soldier on and have benefits of their own. One downfall, however, is their ability to rev. Pushrod engines tend to have rather low ...

Last month's "How It Works" story gave you the basics of the four-stroke cycle, describing the motion of the intake and exhaust valves in relation to the piston moving up and down in the cylinder.

Pushrods, much like manual transmissions, were supposed to be phased out long ago by all the new technology hitting the market, but something happened along the way. In the case of manual ...

Even with all of its blunders over the years, one thing about General Motors that we can't really fault is its lineup of small block V8 engines. These engines have been especially central to Chevy's ...

For years, Chevy's factory-backed Corvette race cars have been delightfully anachronistic, running old-school pushrod V-8 engines with cross-plane crankshafts. But this is the dawn of a new era in ...

Chevy has been perfecting the old-school pushrod V8 for a long time now, but its day may be nearly over. Internal GM documents have leaked that hint that the 2018 Corvette might get an entirely new ...