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 ...

Pushrod engines are great for a lot of reasons. They're compact, they're simple, and if done right, they sound good. But one drawback of the pushrod design is that it can't rev as high as a comparable ...

Ford pushrod V8s served many a driver for decades in a veritable buffet of displacements from 1952 through 2001 (until Ford brought them back for the 7.3-liter Godzilla in 2020). In the early 1990s, ...

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 ...

The rocker arm employs the use of a fulcrum or pivot to increase the cam lift by a given ratio. That increase in lift is the result of moving the pushrod pivot point closer to the fulcrum. That ...

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 ...