Category: Tech Corner

By Greg Acosta January 10, 2020 One of the basic tenants of hot-rodding is finding ways to add more power. One popular way of doing that is by adding displacement. To do that there are two dimensions in an engine’s…

By Jeff Smith January 14, 2020 The whole idea behind building an engine is to capture as much air and the proper ratio of fuel in the combustion space as possible, squeeze it, light it off, and use the combustion…

By Brian Wagner December 11, 2019 When you’re building an engine for a project there are limitless possibilities of parts and combinations you can use. If you’re jumping into the higher end of the horsepower pool you might be looking…

­  By Dave Localio Tech November 12, 2018   About the Author: Dave Localio is a long-time friend of ours and the owner/operator of Headgames Motorworks, a cylinder head specialist founded in New Jersey in 2001. Dave and his team…

August 20, 2018 / by Mike Magda Share An intense look at crankshaft stroke and its affect on mean piston speed, inertia, and controlling the massive, destructive forces at work inside an engine. Engine builders have long calculated the mean…

October 16, 2018 / by Jeff Smith Gamblers are a different breed. There’s a point where they seem to know when a bluff has gone too far, when it’s time to fold their hand and live to fight another day.…

By Brian Wagner July 09, 2019 There are numerous fables in the high-performance world on what you can or can’t do with various parts. One of the more common ones out there is that reusing MLS head gaskets is perfectly…

By Jennifer Szabo June 20, 2019 In the engine tuning world, detonation is defined as one of the following: combustion that causes engine damage; combustion that causes banging or pinging noises; or combustion that causes power loss, bucking, or kicking.…

By Brian Wagner June 13, 2019 Looking for ways to generate horsepower during an engine build goes beyond displacement and the size of the ports on a cylinder head. Ensuring that everything inside the engine is sealed up correctly will…

By Eric Labore June 06, 2019 When you are building an engine, and you are trying to get the most possible power out of it, you start looking into different areas of optimization. One area that can be optimized in…