It's not unusual for modern performance cars to make over 200 hp/liter, with ultra-exclusive supercars even breaching the 300 hp/liter mark. Of course, these figures are achieved by forcing massive ...

High revs, raw sound, no driver aids: Discover why the Cosworth BDA earned its reputation as perhaps the "angriest" engine ...

Since the development of the internal combustion engine, humanity has long pursued the common goal to make them run as fast as possible. And whether it's gasoline-powered engineering marvels like ...

Bore and stroke do far more than define engine size. They help shape airflow, piston speed, torque delivery, and rev ...

Those loyal readers who follow Super Chevy will remember our two-part Legendary Small-Blocks dyno series. It included such great names as the L76, the LT-1 and the Z/28's 302. We followed up part one ...

Don’t redline and watch this video. You notice it every time you get in the car — when you start the engine, the gauge called a tachometer tells you the RPMs. But, particularly if you don’t have a ...

Honda has produced engines across decades and categories that balance reliability with serious performance. These are the ...

The use of a dyno to measure horsepower and torque is a valuable tool for the racer. If you use the dyno just to see what kind of torque and horsepower numbers your engine is developing, that may be ...

The Porsche 911 GT3 S/C brings together a 9000 rpm naturally aspirated engine, manual-only gearbox and an open-top layout.

Jetting a carburetor is one of the few "black arts" in the automotive world that is still a mystery to most racers and tuners. Most tuners still look at the spark plug, the exhaust port, and the first ...

(iSeeCars) – The automotive world has a language all its own, including a wide array of acronyms representing a similarly wide array of technical features and characterizations. In the case of “RPM”, ...