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Melling Tech Tips for GM LS Lifter Issues
If you are working on a GM LS engine, watch this tech tip video featuring Melling's tech director Cale Risinger...
If you are working on a GM LS engine, watch this tech tip video featuring Melling's tech director Cale Risinger...
CAM BEARING ISSUES LIKELY TIED TO BURRS We’ve found that almost all issues related to camshafts being too tight in...
In simple terms, the cylinder head is just a casting that tops off the engine block, holds the valves and...
Through the proper selection of style, size and material, rings prevent blowby by sealing against the groove in the piston...
The Right Oil Pumps and Systems Keep Your Engines In Harmony This month we’re going to take a look at...
“What camshaft should I use?” How many times have you been asked or heard that question uttered? Why is it...
Choosing a set of connecting rods is one of the critical steps in a performance engine build. The rods have...
Doug “Burton” Brown of Fremont, WI, raced stock cars for more than 30 years before he got into land speed...
Building a high performance engine is always an adventure. You never know how much horsepower and torque an engine will...
Boy, has life ever gotten complicated! Back in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s when Jim Kirby, Mike Kausch, and...
An engine only runs as well as it is tuned. You can build a killer motor using all the best...
When it comes to a productive engine test cell, the key might surprise you. While the dynamometer satisfies the core...
If you’ll recall, in the January issue, we got into the nitty gritty details of what makes a camshaft the...
A theory prevails in which a cam lobe that opens to maximum lift and closes instantaneously is quintessential for maximum power...
Perhaps the most important property of lube oil is its ability to remove heat from a surface where two or...
On a basic level, fuel injection just looks really cool. The intake on a fuel injected power plant is the...
Flow…that magical, mystical word that is seemingly carved in stone anytime the discussion topic turns to performance cylinder heads. Whether...
Cleaning is a process that no engine builder can avoid, whether you are rebuilding high mileage engines caked with gunk...
By Robert Florine, President, ARP Fasteners We know that fasteners hold an engine together. And that fasteners play a critical...
The Production Engine Remanufacturers Association (PERA) will host a free webinar on Wednesday, January 18 2017. The subject – “Racing Bearing Lubrication,...
