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Dan Gurney’s Moment-Cancelling Four-Stroke engine is amazing. Designed for motorcycles as its primary application, the Moment Cancelling Four Stroke (MC4S) engine has a 2 cylinder inline layout, with...

The “Dynacam engine”: an engineering oddity lost in time. Throughout the history of engineering, innovation has taken many forms, from the revolutionary Wankel engines based on constant diameter shapes,...

We take a look at the different Types of superchargers. When we think of superchargers, a big scoop mounted on a chunk of metal coming out of an American Muscle car’s bonnet usually comes to mind. But there...

Stephan Papadakis is building a race ready 2AR Toyota engine, and it’s amazing. You might be thinking; isn’t that basically the same engine found in a Camry? You’d be technically right, but there are...

By Omar C. Buckle up people; we’re going back in time to the wonderful era of automotive genesis and meet Adams Farwell , to a time when innovation was rampant, computers were nothing more than a...

In the fascinating world of motorsport, a high revving V8 powerhouse is always nice to have, and this time it comes in the form of a 5.0 liter Coyote V8. Normally found in the current Ford Mustang, this...

When discussing engine specifications and performance, we often mention displacement, layout, valvetrain, and amount of cylinders. Even when we get more technical with things like: ignition timing, cam...

Who says Ford’s the only American car maker that gets to play with flat plane crankshafts? Chevy tuner Lingenfelter, famous for their radical Corvette builds, has managed to build a Flat-Plane Crank LSX 358...

Saying that the Ferrari 458 sounds incredible is almost redundant. There’s been much talk about flat plane crankshafts, but despite the similarities in their crankshaft, the 4.5L Ferrari V8 has nearly...

The fantastic 5.2L V8 found in the new Mustang GT350 is arguably the most innovative engine that’s ever come out of Detroit. Spinning to an unheard of 8250rpm, the all-aluminum GT350 makes 526hp at 7500rpm...